Achieving Durable Peace in Ukraine
The Trump administration’s goal of achieving a durable peace in Ukraine will require sustained diplomatic engagement with Russia, Ukraine, and European partners across a wide array of military, political, and economic issues. A QI policy brief, “Peace Through Strength in Ukraine: Sources of U.S. Leverage in Negotiations“, by Eurasia Program Director Anatol Lieven, Grand Strategy Program Director George Beebe, and Eurasia Research Fellow Mark Episkopos outlines these diplomatic areas and offers policy principles to guide the successful implementation of a negotiated settlement that would ensure Ukraine’s postwar security and prosperity and lay the groundwork for a reinvigorated architecture of European security.
To discuss these issues and mark the brief’s publication, the Quincy Institute held a conversation featuring Thomas Graham, distinguished fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, Michael Kimmage, director of the Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute, and Monica Duffy Toft, professor of International Politics and director at the Center for Strategic Studies at Fletcher University. George Beebe, director of the Grand Strategy program at the Quincy Institute, moderated the conversation.
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Thomas Graham
Thomas Graham is a distinguished fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a cofounder of the Russian, East European, and Eurasian studies program at Yale University and sits on its faculty steering committee. He is also a research fellow at the MacMillan Center at Yale. He has been a lecturer in global affairs and political science since 2011, teaching courses on U.S.-Russian relations and Russian foreign policy, as well as cybersecurity and counterterrorism. Graham was special assistant to the president and senior director for Russia on the National Security Council staff from 2004 to 2007, during which he managed a White House-Kremlin strategic dialogue.
Michael Kimmage
Michael Kimmage is a professor of history and department chair at the Catholic University of America and director of the Wilson Center's Kennan Institute. From 2014 to 2017, he served on the Secretary's Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State, where he held the Russia/Ukraine portfolio. He publishes widely on international affairs, U.S.-Russian relations and American diplomatic history.
Monica Duffy Toft
Monica Duffy Toft is a non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute and Professor of International Politics, founding Director of the Center for Strategic Studies at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Prior to Tufts, Toft was Professor of Government and Public Policy at Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government and Assistant and Associate Professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. At Harvard, she was also the Assistant Director of the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies and the founding director of the Initiative on Religion in International Affairs.
George Beebe
George Beebe is director of grand strategy at the Quincy Institute. He spent more than two decades in government as an intelligence analyst, diplomat, and policy advisor, including as director of the CIA’s Russia analysis, director of the CIA’s Open Source Center, and as a staff advisor on Russia matters to Vice President Cheney. His book, The Russia Trap: How Our Shadow War with Russia Could Spiral into Nuclear Catastrophe (St. Martin’s Press, 2019), warned how the United States and Russia could stumble into a dangerous military confrontation.