Russia Panel Dec-14 Page 1 of 28 Amy Zegart
Russia Panel Dec-14 Amy Zegart: Good afternoon, everyone. I want to invite you all to get seated and get comfortable for a very interesting afternoon. I want to welcome you all. My name is Amy Zegart. I’m a Senior Fellow and the Co-director of the Center for International Security and Cooperation here in the Freeman Spogli Institute, and I’m also a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Boy, are we lucky to have this panel this afternoon. It is no more timely moment to be looking at the past, present and future of U.S.-Russian relations and nuclear security than today. Let me add for those of you who may not have seen the news that Tom Schilling, one of the great strategic thinkers in nuclear security passed away today. So, it’s particularly fitting that we Reflect in part on the ideas and the contributions of the distinguished panelists that we have here, and Tom Schilling whose work was so central to Deterrence Theory during the Cold War. Now, each of our panelists I have to add on a lighter note since it is the holiday season, has written one, if not more, critically acclaimed books with very uplifting titles like, “Doomed to Cooperate,” “My Journey at the Nuclear Brink,” “Stalin and the Bomb,” and “The Dead Hand.” However, Mike McFaul has written a book that he’s recently finished that’s due out soon, so I’m hoping there’s a more uplifting title than that. Mike McFaul: All my titles are way more uplifting than these others.
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