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Update on Ukraine

December 10, 2026
7:30 p.m.–9:00 p.m. ET
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Timothy Frye, Oxana Shevel, and Gideon Rose discuss Ukraine and Russia. This event is co-sponsored with the Network for Responsible Public Policy.

SPEAKERS

TIMOTHY FRYE is the Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy at Columbia University.  He received a B.A. in Russian language and literature from Middlebury College, an M.I.A. from Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia. His research and teaching interests are in comparative politics and political economy, focusing on the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. His most recent book is Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin’s Russia.  He also edits Post-Soviet Affairs.

OXANA SHEVEL is an associate professor of political science at Tufts University and director of the Tufts International Relations Program. She is co-author (with Maria Popova) of a book on the root causes of the Russo-Ukrainian war, Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States (Polity, 2023). Her earlier book Migration, Refugee Policy, and State Building in Postcommunist Europe (Cambridge, 2011) won the American Association of Ukrainian Studies (AAUS) prize for best book in the fields of Ukrainian history, politics, language, literature, and culture. Shevel serves as Vice President and President-Elect of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) and Vice President of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN). She’s also a country expert on Ukraine for the EU Global Citizenship Observatory, a member of the PONARS Eurasia scholarly network, a board member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society, and an associate of both the Davis Center and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Prof. Shevel holds a Ph.D. in government from Harvard, an M.Phil. in international relations from the University of Cambridge, and a B.A. in English and French from Kyiv State University.

GIDEON ROSE is senior lecturer in discipline at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Previously, he was managing editor of Foreign Affairs from 2000 to 2010 and editor from 2010 to 2021. He has also served as associate director for Near East and South Asian affairs on the staff of the National Security Council and deputy director of national security studies at CFR. He is the author of How Wars End (Simon & Schuster, 2010)..

Welcome

ROBERT Y. SHAPIRO is the Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government in the Department of Political Science and Vice Dean and Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He is President of The Academy of Political Science and Editor of Political Science Quarterly.

Moderator

MARYLENA MANTAS is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Global Affairs at Sacred Heart University and Associate and Managing Editor of Political Science Quarterly.

EVENT CO-SPONSORS

The Academy of Political Science
Network for Responsible Public Policy

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