Book Talk – The Ukraine War and the Eurasian World Order

The response of most of the international community to the Ukraine War has illustrated the greatly weakened ability of the US, and the West in general, to shape the policies of states around the world. Global economic architecture is being reorganized as the world diversifies away from excessive reliance on Western technologies, industries, transportation corridors, banks, payment systems, insurance systems, and currencies. A multipolar system is coming back into existence, though its future contours are unclear. Dr. Glenn Diesen is a leading analyst of these global trends. He will be joined by Anatol Lieven, director of the Eurasia program at the Quincy Institute and Artin DerSimonian, junior research fellow at the Quincy Institute. They will discuss Dr. Diesen’s just-published book, The Ukraine War and the Eurasian World Order (Clarity Press 2024).

The conversation will take place on Tuesday October 8th from 12:00 – 1:00 PM Eastern Time.


Panelists

Glenn Diesen

Dr Glenn Diesen is a professor at the University of Southeast Norway (USN) and an associate editor at the Russia in Global Affairs journal. Diesen is a board member at the International Institute for Peace (IPP) in Vienna, the Centre for Nationalism Studies (CNS) in Sarajevo, and Contemporary World Economy in Moscow. Diesen has published 11 books on the topic of Russian foreign policy, geoeconomics, and Eurasian integration, including "Russophobia: Propaganda in International Politics" (2023) and "Great Power Politics in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: The Geoeconomics of Technological Sovereignty" (2022).

Artin DerSimonian

Artin DerSimonian is a junior research fellow in the Eurasia program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He earned a Masters of Science in Russian, East European, and Euraisan studies from the University of Glasgow in 2022, where his thesis focused on "The Decline of a Pro-German Foreign Policy in late Imperial Russia”, 1878-1890.

Anatol Lieven

Dr. Anatol Lieven directs the Eurasia Program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He was formerly a professor at Georgetown University in Qatar and in the War Studies Department of King’s College London. From 1985 to 1998, Lieven worked as a journalist in South Asia, the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe and covered the wars in Afghanistan, Chechnya and the southern Caucasus. Lieven is the author of several books, including "Chechnya: Tombstone of Russian Power?" and "Ukraine and Russia: A Fraternal Rivalry."