A conversation with Serhii Plokhy, renowned historian at Harvard University and author of several books on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This conversation will explore Professor Plokhy's new book, David and Goliath: Commentaries on the Russo-Ukrainian War, and the historiographical questions in involved in understanding the origins of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

A conversation with Angela Stent, of the American Enterprise Institute and Georgetown University, on the origins of the war, with an emphasis on U.S.-Russian relations since the end of the Cold War, the open-ended 1990s, the rise of Vladimir Putin, the crisis caused by Russia's annexation of Crimea and the lead-up to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.