Christopher Jones presents his lecture, “What to Do About Russia? Russia, the EU, and the International System” on Aug. 17, 2022. This lecture was part of the 2021 EU Policy Forum for Educators. More information about the workshop, as well as the visual Presentation Slides accompanying this lecture can be found here: jsis.washington.edu/euwesteurope/ed…cator-workshop/ A complete

Chris Collison is a former journalist in Ukraine, where he documented social and political change during the Revolution of Dignity and the first years of the War in the Donbas. He was the recipient of a 2018-2019 Fulbright grant to study developments in civil society, civic culture, and independent media in Ukraine. He now works for

Ellison Center Statement on the war in Ukraine The Ellison Center condemns the Russian Federation’s invasion of Ukraine as a violation of that country’s sovereignty as well as its flagrant disregard of international laws and norms. As an institution that embodies the principles of pluralism and evidence-based academic inquiry, the Center also condemns President Vladimir

The Ellison Center condemns the Russian Federation’s invasion of Ukraine as a violation of that country’s sovereignty as well as its flagrant disregard of international laws and norms. As an institution that embodies the principles of pluralism and evidence-based academic inquiry, the Center also condemns President Vladimir Putin’s blatantly self-serving distortions of Ukraine’s past and

On April 26, 2018, Timothy Snyder, the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University and bestselling author, spoke at the University of Washington on his book On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, which reads as a survival manual for present times in view of the past with instruction on how to

FRIDAY, MAY 4 | 12:30 PM | HUB 238 Matthew Ouimet is a Sanctions Officer in the Office of Peace Operations, Sanctions, and Counterterrorism at the U.S. Department of State where he has responsibility for implementation of UN sanctions against North Korea and Iran. From 2002 until 2016, Dr. Ouimet was a Senior Analyst in

Thursday, May 3 | 2:30 – 4:20 pm | 138 William H. Gates Hall Arms control and nonproliferation together represent one of the most contentious and technically challenging areas of national security and international politics, frequently interweaving high-technology, U.S. foreign policy, international law, and complicated regional dynamics.  A panel of accomplished women leaders in nuclear

Navruz 2018 Saturday, March 24 | Vasa Park Ballroom, Bellevue | 1:00-5:30pm Please join the Seattle-Tashkent Sister City Association for the 20th annual Navruz celebration on Saturday, March 24, 2018, at the Vasa Park Ballroom in Bellevue. The event will be full of fun with delicious Central Asian food and entertainment! Join us for a