13
March 2014
Past Event
Ukraine: Crisis for Central Europe and the Transatlantic Alliance

Ukraine: Crisis for Central Europe and the Transatlantic Alliance

Past Event
Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C. Headquarters
March 13, 2014
13
March 2014
Past Event

1015 15th Street, N.W., 6th Floor
Washington, DC 20005

Speakers:
Kenneth R. Weinstein,

President & CEO, Hudson Institute

John O’Sullivan,

Director, Danube Institute

David Satter,

Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute

György Szapáry,

Ambassador of Hungary to the United States

Paula Dobriansky,

Senior Fellow, The Future of Diplomacy Project, Harvard University

Richard Weitz,

Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis, Hudson Institute

Andrew C. Kuchins,

Senior Fellow and Director, Russia and Eurasia Program at Center for Strategic and International Studies

Julie Smith,

Senior Fellow and Director, Strategy and Statecraft Program at the Center for a New American Security, former Deputy National Security Advisor to Vice President Biden

Richard Fontaine,

President, Center for a New American Security

John O’Sullivan,

Director, Danube Institute

Seth Cropsey,

Director of the Center for American Seapower, Hudson Institute

Kevin Klose,

Former President and CEO, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Marion Smith,

Executive Director, Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation

Tamas Fellegi,

Former Hungarian Minister of National Development

Janusz Bugajski,

Washington-based Foreign Policy Analyst

Vladimir Vladimirovich Kara-Murza,

Russian opposition leader

Irena Chalupa,

Former Director of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's Ukrainian Service

Bartlomiej Nowak,

German Marshall Fund Transatlantic Academy Fellow, former executive director of Polish Center for International Relations, and former Member of the European Parliament

A. Wess Mitchell,

President and Co-Founder, Center for European Policy Analysis

The Ukraine crisis has the potential to create financial instability, an economic slowdown, clashes between states and alliances, and civil disturbances within countries. As the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War approaches, we cannot treat these risks as trivial.

The dangers Ukraine poses for international security, crisis management, and geopolitical balance particularly concern the relations among the Russian Federation, the European Union, and the United States. But the Ukraine crisis also threatens the stability, security, and recovering prosperity of the nations of Central Europe.

These and other issues were the focus of a one-day conference held jointly by the Hudson Institute and the Danube Institute on Thursday, March 13 at Hudson.

The event was livestreamed on Ustream

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