Overview

FPI Senior Fellow Daniel Serwer leads a discussion with Eugene Finkel, Sergey Radchenko, and Lauren Van Metre.

As Russia's war against Ukraine ends its fourth year and enters its fifth, FPI Senior Fellow Daniel Serwer is convening a panel discussion with experts on the region to look at Ukraine's centuries-long struggle with Russia, how the war is reshaping civil society in the country, and prospects for an end to the conflict.

(This is a hybrid event. Dr. Serwer and Dr. Van Metre will appear in person at the Hopkins Bloomberg Center in DC, while Dr. Finkel and Dr. Radchenko will appear remotely from SAIS Bologna. Please register via Eventbrite to attend the in-person event. You can also watch via our livestream on YouTube at this link, no registration required: https://youtube.com/live/3lbT8ie2M3A)

About The Speakers

Daniel Serwer is a Senior Fellow at the SAIS Foreign Policy Institute. He is the author of Strengthening International Regimes: the Case of Radiation Protection (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) as well as From War to Peace in the Balkans, the Middle East and Ukraine (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) and Righting the Balance (Potomac Books, November 2013). He edited (with David Smock) Facilitating Dialogue (USIP, 2012) and supervised preparation of Guiding Principles for Stabilization and Reconstruction (USIP, 2009). Guiding Principles is the leading compilation of best practices for civilians and military in post-war state-building.

As vice president of the Centers of Innovation at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), Serwer led teams working on rule of law, peacebuilding, religion, economics, media, technology, security sector governance and gender. He was also vice president for peace and stability operations at USIP, overseeing its peacebuilding work in Afghanistan, the Balkans, Iraq, and Sudan, and serving as executive director of the Hamilton/Baker Iraq Study Group.

As a minister-counselor at the U.S. Department of State, Serwer directed the European office of intelligence and research and served as U.S. special envoy and coordinator for the Bosnian Federation, mediating between Croats and Muslims and negotiating the first agreement reached at the Dayton Peace Talks; from 1990 to 1993, he was deputy chief of mission and chargé d’affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Rome, leading a major diplomatic mission through the end of the Cold War and the first Gulf War.

Serwer is a graduate of Haverford College and earned master’s degrees at the University of Chicago and Princeton, where he also did his PhD in the history of science.

For more information about the event and speakers, follow the link here: Taking Stock of the Renewed Russian Invasion of Ukraine