2024 Lipset Lecture - David vs. Goliath: Democracy and Autocracy in the Russo-Ukrainian War

Serhii Plokhii is the Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History and the Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University. His interests include the intellectual, cultural, and international history of Eastern Europe, with an emphasis on Ukraine. He is the author of, among others, The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History (W.W. Norton, 2023); Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters (W.W. Norton, 2022); The Frontline: Essays on Ukraine's Past and Present (HURI, 2021); Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis (W. W. Norton, 2021); Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front: American Airmen behind the Soviet Lines and the Collapse of the Grand Alliance (Oxford University Press, 2019); Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe (Basic Books, 2018); and The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine (Basic Books, 2015). His books have won numerous awards, including the Ballie Gifford Prize and the Shevchenko National Prize (2018). Professor Plokhii also won the Gelber Prize in 2015.
Clifford Orwin is Professor of Political Science, Classics, and Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto and also Senior Fellow of Massey College and Fellow of St. Michael’s College. Professor Orwin is Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University and Founding Senior Fellow, Bochum Thucydides Center, Ruhr-Universitaet-Bochum.

This event is co-sponsored by Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, Department of Political Science, National Endowment for Democracy, Donner Canadian Foundation and Canadian Embassy