William Hill, Wilson Center

Why has the optimistic vision of a “Europe whole and free” after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 given way to disillusionment, bitterness, and renewed hostility between Russia and the West? In his recent book, No Place for Russia, diplomat and scholar William Hill shows in excruciating detail how historical happenstance and geopolitical maneuvering between Russia, the United States, and the EU led to a largely unintended marginalization of Russia and an increasingly assertive Russian foreign policy. Join William Hill and CSS’s Jon Askonas for a conversation about the book, European security, and Russian activity in the West from the invasion of Crimea to the attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal.

Pizza will be served.