InFocus with Ejaz Haider EP44: A Conversation on the Russo-Ukrainian War

Guests: Dr. Mathew Burrows & Dr. Mariana Budjeryn
Dr.Mathew Burrows serves as Counselor in the Executive Office at the Stimson Center, is the Program Lead of the Strategic Foresight Hub, and a Distinguished Fellow with the Reimagining US Grand Strategy program. Prior to joining Stimson, he was the director of Foresight at the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Strategy Initiative as well as the co-director of the New American Engagement Initiative. Burrows is one of the leading experts on strategic foresight and global trend analysis. In 2013 he retired from a 28-year-long career in the State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the last 10 years of which he spent at the National Intelligence Council (NIC), the premier analytic unit in the US Intelligence Community. In 2007, Burrows was appointed Counselor, the number three position in the NIC, and was the principal drafter for the NIC publication, Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds.
Dr. Mariana Budjeryn is a Senior Research Associate at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center’s Project on Managing the Atom (MTA). She is the author of “Inheriting the Bomb: The Collapse of the USSR and the Nuclear Disarmament of Ukraine” (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023). Mariana is the first female author in the 25-year history of the Colby Award to be honored with it for the said book. Formerly, she held appointments of a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at MTA, and a visiting professor at Tufts University and the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt. Mariana is a member of the Committee on International Security and Arms Control of the National Academies of Sciences and a Senior Nonresident Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Her research and analytical contributions have appeared in the Journal of Cold War Studies, Nonproliferation Review, Foreign Affairs, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, War on the Rocks, and in the publications of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, where she is a Fellow with the Global Europe Program.