Solving Ukraine: Federalization and Permanent Neutrality can end the conflict — Dr. Anatol Lieven

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Dr. Anatol Lieven is a British author, policy analyst, former professor at Georgetown University, and currently a senior research fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He is intimately familiar with Eastern Europe and Central Asia. From 1985 to 1998, he worked as a journalist in the region covering the wars in Afghanistan, Chechnya and the southern Caucasus. He is the author of several books on Russia and its neighbors including “The Baltic Revolutions: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Path to Independence” and “Ukraine and Russia: A Fraternal Rivalry.”

Dr. Lieven wrote several other important books but today we are here to discuss the situation in and around Ukraine about which he has published by now several pieces and been quite outspoken. He wrote an essay in defense of Ambassador Jack Matlock—who we had on this channel before—arguing that it is first and foremost Ukraine that had to come to terms with its own diversity, and that the conflict with Russia is heavily impacted by the Ukrainian government’s failing to find a workable deal for its own minorities. He also recently published an article in Foreign Policy in which he argued for security cooperation among NATO and Russia.