Russia and the West En Route to the Ukraine War: From 'Great Expectations' to Cold War Redux?

Rudra Sil

Russia and the West En Route to the Ukraine War:
From 'Great Expectations' to Cold War Redux?

Thursday, November 21, 2024
Public Talk: 1:30-3pm • Milne 215

Followed by a discussion with graduate students: 
3:30-4:30pm • Levitt Room (Milne 120) • pizza provided


Speaker: Rudra Sil, Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania 

Rudra Sil is Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania where he is also SAS Director of the dual-degree Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business. He received his Ph.D. from Berkeley before joining the Penn faculty in 1996. His scholarly interests encompass Russian/post-communist studies, Asian studies, comparative labor politics, international development, qualitative methodology, and the philosophy of social science. Sil is currently working on a monograph titled The Fate of a Former Superpower: Russia’s Troubled Search for Relevance and Recognition in a Post-Cold War World (under advance contract, Cambridge University Press).