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Profs and Pints DC presents: “Elections and Wars,” on how voters in the U.S. and other nations could alter the course of international conflicts, with Michael Kimmage, professor of history at Catholic University, former U.S. State Department planner for Ukraine and Russia, and author of Collisions: The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability.
The year 2024 has brought Western democracies significant drama, with a snap election in France leading to big gains by the far right, Labour ending 14 years of Conservative rule with a landslide victory in the U.K., and the United States holding one of the most high-stakes presidential elections in its history.
Because such elections often lead to changes in foreign policy, they can have consequences well beyond their nation’s borders. How these nations approach conflicts such as the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Israel’s invasion of the Gaza strip, and a potential invasion of Taiwan by China all hang in the balance.
Join Professor Michael Kimmage, who has served on the Secretary's Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. State Department, for a talk examining the implications of these elections for conflicts elsewhere around the world.
He’ll especially focus on the long-term consequences of the choice American voters will make on November 5th. He’ll discuss the Democratic Party's ongoing efforts to deal with Russia, and he’ll entertain the thought that a second-term President Trump actually might escalate U.S. military engagement in Ukraine when faced with the difficulties of negotiating a settlement to a conflict that he would not want to lose. (Advance tickets: $13.50 plus sales tax and processing fees. Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. Talk starts 30 minutes later.)
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