Rapid Response Roundtable: Ukraine

This is a virtual program, instructions to join this Zoom meeting will be sent to all registrants the morning of the event.

Putin has ordered a "special military operation" in Ukraine beginning an invasion on multiple fronts, including on the capital city of Kyiv. The U.S. is working in close contact with European allies in this rapidly changing situation. Join the World Affairs Council on Wednesday, March 2 from 12:00-1:00 PM PT for a rapid response roundtable discussion with Charles Kupchan, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and former special assistant to the president and senior director for European affairs on the staff of the National Security Council (NSC) in the Obama administration.

This is a free members-only event and registration is limited. Only current Council members can be approved for registration. Members who register will see their approval come through prior to the event if space is available. If you register and then realize you are unable to attend, please let us know so we can open your seat in case this event sells out. As this is a roundtable meeting event, please plan on joining with video if possible.

About the Speaker:

Charles Kupchan is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and professor of international affairs at Georgetown University in the Walsh School of Foreign Service and Department of Government.

From 2014 to 2017, Kupchan served as special assistant to the president and senior director for European affairs on the staff of the National Security Council (NSC) in the Barack Obama administration. He was also director for European affairs on the NSC during the first Bill Clinton administration.  Before joining the Clinton NSC, he worked in the U.S. Department of State on the policy planning staff.  Previously, he was an assistant professor of politics at Princeton University.

Kupchan is the author of Isolationism: A History of America's Efforts to Shield Itself From the World (2020), No One's World: The West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn (2012), How Enemies Become Friends: The Sources of Stable Peace (2010), The End of the American Era: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Geopolitics of the Twenty-first Century (2002), Power in Transition: The Peaceful Change of International Order (2001), Civic Engagement in the Atlantic Community (1999), Atlantic Security: Contending Visions (1998), Nationalism and Nationalities in the New Europe (1995), The Vulnerability of Empire (1994), The Persian Gulf and the West (1987), and numerous articles on international and strategic affairs.

Kupchan has served as a visiting scholar at Harvard University's Center for International Affairs, Columbia University's Institute for War and Peace Studies, the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, the Centre d'Étude et de Recherches Internationales in Paris, and the Institute for International Policy Studies in Tokyo. From 2006 to 2007, he was the Henry A. Kissinger scholar at the Library of Congress and a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. From 2013 to 2014, he was a senior fellow at the Transatlantic Academy.

Kupchan received his BA from Harvard University and MPhil and DPhil from Oxford University.