Date: Thursday, April 2, 2015
Time: 4:00pm – 6:00pm
Location: Room 108N, North House, Munk School of Global Affairs, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON M5S3K7

Title: Russia and NATO: How to Handle Putin

What are Vladimir Putin’s goals in the Ukraine and elsewhere? How dangerous is the current situation? What should NATO’s stance towards Putin be? Thomas Nichols of the US Naval War College explores these timely questions.

Speaker: Thomas Nichols is a Professor of National Security Affairs at the US Naval War College. His books include The Sacred Cause: Civil-Military Conflict over Soviet National Security, 1917-1992; The Russian Presidency: Society and Politics in the Second Russian Republic; and No Use: Nuclear Weapons and US National Security.