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 Pavlo Klimkin, former Foreign Minister of Ukraine and a member of the Kennan Institute Advisory Council, on the diplomatic backdrop to Russia's serial invasions of Ukraine, starting with the events of 2013/2014, continuing through the long phase of "Minsk" diplomacy and looking in detail at the events of 2021 in Ukraine-Russian relations.

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.

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 German Ambassador to Italy, Thomas Bagger, on the origins of the war with a focus on the European dimensions to this conflict. This conversation will review policy thinking and choices from the 1990s to 2022, looking carefully at assessments of Russian strategy and decision making.

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 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.