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.
Kenneth R. Weinstein, Opening Remarks
President & CEO, Hudson Institute
John O’Sullivan, Opening Remarks
Director, Danube Institute
David Satter, Report from the Maidan
Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute
György Szapáry, Chairman, Keynote Speech
Ambassador of Hungary to the United States
Paula Dobriansky, Speaker, Keynote Speech
Senior Fellow, The Future of Diplomacy Project, Harvard University
Richard Weitz, Chairman: Russia, Europe, and America
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis, Hudson Institute
Andrew C. Kuchins, Panelist: Russia, Europe, and America
Senior Fellow and Director, Russia and Eurasia Program at Center for Strategic and International Studies
Julie Smith, Panelist: Russia, Europe, and America
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, Panelist: Russia, Europe, and America
President, Center for a New American Security
John O’Sullivan, Lunch Panel Chairman: Who’s Got the Energy? Who Knows the Score?
Director, Danube Institute
Seth Cropsey, Lunch Panelist on Energy: Who’s Got the Energy? Who Knows the Score?
Director of the Center for American Seapower, Hudson Institute
Kevin Klose, Lunch Panelist on The Media War: Who’s Got the Energy? Who Knows the Score?
Former President and CEO, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Marion Smith, Chairman: Central Europe: Cooperation in a Cold Climate
Executive Director, Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation
Tamas Fellegi, Panelist: Central Europe: Cooperation in a Cold Climate
Former Hungarian Minister of National Development
Janusz Bugajski, Panelist: Central Europe: Cooperation in a Cold Climate
Washington-based Foreign Policy Analyst
Vladimir Vladimirovich Kara-Murza, Panelist: Central Europe: Cooperation in a Cold Climate
Russian opposition leader
Irena Chalupa, Panelist: Central Europe: Cooperation in a Cold Climate
Former Director of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's Ukrainian Service
Bartlomiej Nowak, Panelist: Central Europe: Cooperation in a Cold Climate
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, Panelist: Central Europe: Cooperation in a Cold Climate
President and Co-Founder, Center for European Policy Analysis
