This talk will draw on Sergey Radchenko’s newly published book, To Run the World: the Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for Global Power, to explore how the Soviet and Russian leaders formulated and pursued their foreign policy aims during the Cold War, and in its aftermath.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Sergey Radchenko is the Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He is the author of To Run the World: the Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for Global Power (Cambridge UP, 2024), Two Suns in the Heavens: the Sino-Soviet Struggle for Supremacy (Wilson Center Press & Stanford UP, 2009), and Unwanted Visionaries: the Soviet Failure in Asia (Oxford UP, 2014).
