A conversation with Gwendolyn Sasse, Director of the Centre for East European and International Studies, and author of Russia's War against Ukraine, a book published by Polity Press in 2023. This conversation explores the history behind Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

A conversation with Odd Arne Westad, a historian of the Cold War at Yale University, that focuses on the end of the Cold War, on the many ways that the Cold War did not end between 1989 and 1991 and on the deep historical origins of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, with an emphasis on the global factors that have shaped Vladimir Putin's decision making.

A conversation with Ivan Krastev, chair of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, on the origins of the war in Urkaine, with special attention to paid to the European dimensions, to the growth of the European Union in the 2000s, to the evolving relationship between Ukraine and Europe in 2013-2014 and to Europe's relations with Russia prior to Russia's 2022 invasion.

A conversation with the historian Margaret MacMillan, emeritus professor of history at the University of Toronto and at Oxford University, and author of many books on the history of war. This conversation will place a special emphasis on the evolution of the nation state in the eighteenth century, the role of the nation state in European history before and after World War I and the ways in which this "deep history" have shaped Russia's serial invasions of Ukraine since 2014.

A conversation with Alexander Bick, a professor at the University of Virginia who served on the National Security Council in 2022, about the origins of the war, about policy choices made by the United States and about assessments of Russian actions and motivations in the lead-up to Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

A conversation with Catherine Belton, of the Washington Post, and Shaun Walker, of The Guardian, on the origins of the war. This conversation looks into the role intelligence played prior the war, the U.S. assessmeent that Russia would invade and the divergent assessments of other countries, including Ukraine, about when or whether the war would take place.

A conversation with Eric Ciaramella, of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, on the long arc of U.S. policy toward Ukraine, focusing first on 2013-2014 and the first round of conflict between Ukraine and Russia and continuing with the lead-up to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. This conversation foregrounds questions of information, assessment and analysis.

A conversation with Dmitri Alperovitch about his recent book, World on the Brink, exploring the roots of the war in Ukraine through a global lens, linking the war in Europe to scenarios of a possible invasion of Taiwan.

A conversation with Patrick Travers, former advisor to the Canadian Prime Minister, on the origins of the war, on policy choices made by Canada and its allies and on assessments of Russia's motivations for its 2022 invasion of Ukraine.