While the West’s attention was sharply focused on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in reality Moscow has seen itself at war with the West for far longer than the proxy war which began in February 2022. From politics and diplomacy, to information warfare and military provocations, the Kremlin used a diverse set of tools to attempt to influence, dissuade, distract, and destabilize the West and its democracies. How and why Moscow attempts to do this, and what the Kremlin hopes to achieve are critical questions to understanding Russia today and making better policy toward the country, tomorrow.
On 26 January, CSPC is pleased to host Chatham House Russia expert Keir Giles, author of “Russia’s War on Everybody” (January 2023, Bloomsbury) to discuss his book, Russia, Ukraine, and the West’s policymaking toward Moscow.
If you would like to RSVP for this event, please email sophie.williams@thepresidency.org with your name, position and affiliation.
Keir Giles
is Senior Consulting Fellow for the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House and Director of the Conflict Studies Research Centre. He has spent three decades explaining Russia, for the BBC, the UK Ministry of Defence, Chatham House, NATO and in the private sector. His previous publications include Russia’s ‘New’ Tools for Confronting the West (2016), the Handbook of Russian Information Warfare (2016) and Moscow Rules (2019).