Tuesday, October 30, 2007
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Claudia Rosett
Staff Journalist-in-Residence at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies
For
Bret Stephens
Foreign-affairs Columnist of the Wall Street Journal
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J. Michael Waller
Walter and Leonore Annenberg Chair in International Communication at the Institute for World Politics
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Nina Khrushcheva
Senior Fellow of the World Policy Institute and Professor of International Affairs at The New School
Against
Robert Legvold
Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Political Science at Columbia University
Against
Mark Medish
Vice President for Studies of Russia, China and Eurasia at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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Claudia Rosett
Staff Journalist-in-Residence at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies
Among other positions at the Wall Street Journal, Rosett served as a member of the editorial board (1997-2002) and reporter and bureau chief in the Moscow bureau (1993-96). She writes regularly for the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Commentary, American Spectator and the Weekly Standard, and makes frequent TV and radio appearances.
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Bret Stephens
Foreign-affairs Columnist of the Wall Street Journal
Bret is a member of the paper's editorial board, and a regular panelist of the Journal Editorial Report, a weekly political talk show carried nationally by the Fox News Channel. He was formerly editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem Post.
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J. Michael Waller
Walter and Leonore Annenberg Chair in International Communication at the Institute for World Politics
Waller is the vice president for Information Operations at the Center for Security Policy and a fellow at the Center for Advanced Defense Studies. Waller was a founding editor of Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, published in cooperation with American University and Moscow State University. His books include Dismantling Tyranny: Transitioning Beyond Totalitarian Regimes, edited with Ilan Berman (2006).
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Nina Khrushcheva
Senior Fellow of the World Policy Institute and Professor of International Affairs at The New School
Nina is the granddaughter of former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. She is an editor at Project Syndicate and has written numerous articles for the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, the Nation, Times Literary Supplement, among others. She is the author of Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics (2007).
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Robert Legvold
Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Political Science at Columbia University
Robert specializes in the international relations of the post-Soviet states. He was director of The Harriman Institute at Columbia (1986-92), taught political science at Tufts, and served as senior fellow and director of the Soviet Studies Project at the Council on Foreign Relations. His most recent book is Russian Foreign Policy in the 21st Century and the Shadow of the Past (2007).
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Mark Medish
Vice President for Studies of Russia, China and Eurasia at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Among other positions, Medish was special assistant to the president and senior director for Russian, Ukrainian and Eurasian Affairs on the National Security Council (2000-01) and assistant secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs (1997-2000).
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