A conversation with Michael Kofman of the Carnegie Endowment on the origns of the war, looking in particular at the military dynamics behind this conflict and at Russian notions of security and strategy, starting with the Russia-Georgia War of 2008, continuing with the first Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2014 and exploring in detail the reasons behind Russian President Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

A conversation with Tom Graham, a Distinguished Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and author of the book Getting Russia Right, on the long history of the war in Ukraine, starting with the fall of the Soviet Union and moving on to various chapters in U.S. policy toward Russia and Ukraine.

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.