Please note this is a hybrid event - you have the option to attend in person or virtually. Registrations are required for all attendees. For in-person attendees, the event will run from 5 - 7 pm and will include a 30 minute networking reception, with drinks and light hors d'oeuvres available, from 5-5:30 and 6:30-7. The live stream will begin around 5:30 pm (virtual attendees will be sent a link for the event via email).
Join DACOR, an organization of foreign affairs professionals, and The Washington Group, An Association of Ukrainian-American Professionals, for a program with Dr. Alexander Vindman on the themes of his latest book The Folly of Realism: How the West Deceived Itself About Russia and Betrayed Ukraine.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, six US presidential administrations of both parties pursued policies for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia that emboldened Russia, playing into its imperialist, centuries-long mythos of regional hegemony. The result: military aggression and full-scale invasion. It was all too foreseeable. In The Folly of Realism, Vindman argues that America’s mistakes in Eastern Europe result from policymakers’ fixation on immediate, short-term problem-solving and misplaced hopes and fears. He proposes a new long-term, values-based approach that insists on the fundamentals of liberal democracy and a rules-based world order.
Books will be available for sale and signing.
Dr. Alexander Vindman, a retired US Army Lieutenant Colonel, was the director for European Affairs on the National Security Council. Before that, he served as the Political-Military Affairs Officer for Russia for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and as an attaché at the US Embassies in Moscow and Kyiv. While on the Joint Staff, he authored the National Military Strategy for Russia. He earned a Master's from Harvard University, where he served as a Hauser Leader, and a Master's and Doctorate from Johns Hopkins, where he is a senior fellow. Dr. Vindman leads the national security think tank Institute for Informed American Leadership, is the president of the non-profit Here Right Matters Foundation, an executive board member for the Renew Democracy Initiative, a senior fellow at the Kettering Foundation, and a senior advisor to VoteVets. Dr. Vindman is the author of the Why It Matters Substack and the New York Times bestselling books Here, Right Matters and The Folly of Realism.
Location
Setting: Hybrid DACOR Bacon House OR Online 1801 F Street, NW Washington, DC 20006 UNITED STATES
$15 for in-person attendance: includes one drink during the reception - additional drinks available for purchase (cash & credit card accepted); and light hors d'oeuvres
$10 for virtual attendance
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