The MIT Security Studies Program (SSP) presented a special seminar on March 2 entitled “Understanding the War in Ukraine”. More than 100 students and partners attend the seminar in remote areas during a live broadcast, presented by four experts in this state.
Participants include two MIT political science professors, Maria Greenberg, her work on Conflict Economics, and Barry Posson’s specialization in military education and strategic planning. MIT SSP Special Adviser and Russian expert Carol Sevetz and Russian specialist and MIT history professor Elizabeth A. Wood attended. Prof. M. Taylor Fravel discusses the discussion.
He began the seminar by commenting on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s motivation for invading Ukraine. “Obviously, he is expressing a lot of emotions – I am angry that he has dared to go on a neutral path in Ukraine,” Wood said in a statement issued by the Russian governor in recent weeks.
She told Putin she was free, “not just for economics,” but for democracy.
“He wanted Ukraine to be a jewel in his Eurasian Union,” she said. ”[In] 2014, it became clear that they would not [that] Jewelry ”
Following the cost, Sevetz initially focused on Russia’s inability to influence the “constitution” during the Cold War.
“Russia was not part of the regime,” she said after the collapse of the Soviet Union. It’s not just about NATO expansion. A.D. She added that since 1991, Russian government officials have had laws and regulations imposed on one side. “Russia has not enacted these laws. Russia has not been consulted in this regard, ”she said.
Posee, a professor of political science at Ford International, began his speech by saying that the fog of war would obscure any analysis of the situation on the ground.
He said he believed the Ukrainian and Russian governments could “manage” the information coming out of the country. “Everybody outside Ukraine has been reading tea leaves,” he said.
“Even the press has a problem,” Poison said. “If you look at the various key media outlets, if you look at their war maps, they are all from the same place. There is no free trial for these journalists,” he said.
Conflict economist Greenberg describes various sanctions imposed on Russia by Western allies, including “clever sanctions”, including travel bans on individual actors. Trade embargo prohibiting the export of certain products; And financial sanctions, which affect the ability of a country to increase its capital and use its savings in foreign banks.
The seminar was broadcast live to the faculty, students and alumni of the Department of Political Science.
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