IQ Debates
The West is provoking a new Cold War with Russia
18th March, 2008The debate will take place at the Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AR.
Doors open at 6pm, March 18th, 2008. The debate starts at 6.45pm and finishes at 8.30pm.
Speakers for the motion:
Anatole Kaletsky: Associate Editor of The Times and one of the country's leading commentators on economics. Anatole was previously Economics Editor of The Times, and has won many awards for his financial and political journalism. Before his appointment at The Times, he worked for 12 years on the Financial Times in a variety of posts.
Professor Norman Stone: Professor of International Relations and Director of the Russian Centre at Bilkent University, Ankara. From 1984 to 1997 he was Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford. His many books include The Eastern Front 1914-1917 (1974) which won the Wolfson History Prize, Hitler (1979), and Europe Transformed 1878-1919 (1983) which won the Fontana History of Europe Prize. He co-authored The Other Russia (1987), and his latest book is A Short History of the First World War (2007). In the 1980s and 1990s he was a commentator on modern European and Russian affairs and published a regular column in the Sunday Times between 1987 and 1992. He contributed a great number of book reviews for The Sunday Times, Guardian etc. He was also Margaret Thatcher's foreign policy advisor on Europe as well as her speech writer. He holds the Polish Legion of Merit and is a Trustee of the Margaret Thatcher Foundation.
Alexei Pushkov: Anchor of the most popular Russian TV programme "Post Scriptum" which has considerable influence on Russian public perception of international events. He is also Professor at the Moscow State Institute of International relations, Member of the Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation and Member of the Board of the influential Council of Foreign and Defence Policy. He is the author of over 400 articles and often appears in international press and media.
Speakers against the motion:
Edward Lucas: Central and Eastern Europe correspondent for the The Economist and author of The New Cold War: How the Kremlin Menaces Both Russia and the West (2008). He has been covering Central and Eastern Europe since 1986. He was Moscow Bureau Chief for The Economist from 1998 to 2002 and previously a foreign correspondent for The Independent (in Prague, Washington DC, and USSR), and for the BBC World Service. He is a frequent contributor to British and foreign radio and television programmes, and writes regularly for other outlets. He was based in the Baltic states from 1990 to 1994, covering the collapse of the Soviet Union and, from 1992, as the managing editor and major shareholder in The Baltic Independent, a weekly English-language newspaper published in Tallinn.
Dr Lilia Shevtsova: Senior Associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Washington). She co-chairs the Political Institutions Program at the Moscow Carnegie Center. She is an Associate Fellow at the Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House) and Professor at the Moscow Institute for Foreign Relations. She serves on the editorial boards of American Interest, Journal of Democracy, Pro et Contra and Demokratizatsiya. She is author of Putin's Russia and Yeltsin's Russia: Myths and Reality. Her latest book is Russia: Lost in Transition (the Yeltsin and Putin Legacies).
Ronald Asmus: Executive Director of the Transatlantic Center of the German Marshall Fund of the United States in Brussels, Belgium. He has written widely on US-European relations as well as American foreign policy and is the author of “Opening NATO’s Door: How the Alliance Remade itself for a New Era” (2002). He served as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs in the Clinton Administration from 1997-2000 where he was responsible for European security as well as Nordic/Baltic issues. He has previously worked as a Senior Fellow at the German Marshall Fund, Council on Foreign Relations, RAND and Radio Free Europe. Dr. Asmus has been awarded the U.S. Department of State's Distinguished Honor Award; the Republic of Poland’s Commander’s Cross; the Kingdom of Sweden’s Royal Order of the Polar Star; the Republic of Lithuania’s Order of the Grand Duke Gediminas; the Republic of Estonia’s Order of the Cross of St. Mary’s Land; and the Republic of Latvia’s Order of the Three Stars. He serves on several advisory boards, including The Democratic Strategist (USA), Policy Network (UK) and International Centre for Defence Studies (Estonia).
The debate will be chaired by Jonathan Freedland: Award-winning journalist and broadcaster. He writes a weekly column in The Guardian, as well as a monthly piece for The Jewish Chronicle. He also presents BBC Radio 4's contemporary history series, "The Long View".
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