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.

A conversation with Stephen Sestanovich, of the Council on Foreign Relations, on the long arc of U.S. policy toward Russia, the evolution of Eastern and Central Europe after the end of the Cold War and the motivations held by Russian President Vladimir Putin for invading Ukraine in February 2022.

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.