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"Putin's Russia and the West"
Professor Alexander Motyl
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Planned Remarks:
Professor Motyl's topic will include Russian attitudes towards the West, Putin's government, democracy in Russia, and the new US-Russia relationship.
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Speaker's Biography:
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| Dr. Alexander J. Motyl
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Alexander J. Motyl (Ph.D., 1984, Columbia University) is Professor of Political Science and Deputy Director of the Division of Global Affairs at Rutgers University Newark. He was formerly Associate Professor of Political Science and Associate Director of the Harriman Institute at Columbia University. Motyl is also Senior Academic Advisor for Freedom House.
Motyl is the author of six scholarly books: Imperial Ends: The Decay, Collapse, and Revival of Empires (Columbia University Press, 2001); Revolutions, Nations, Empires: Conceptual Limits and Theoretical Possibilities (Columbia University Press, 1999); Dilemmas of Independence: Ukraine after Totalitarianism (Council on Foreign Relations, 1993); Sovietology, Rationality, Nationality: Coming to Grips with Nationalism in the USSR (Columbia University Press, 1990); Will the Non Russians Rebel? State, Ethnicity, and Stability in the USSR (Cornell University Press, 1987); The Turn to the Right: The Ideological Origins and Development of Ukrainian Nationalism, 1919 1929 (East European Monographs, 1980).
He is co-editor of Russia’s Engagement with the West: Transformation and Integration in the Twenty-First Century (M.E. Sharpe, 2005); and editor of The Encyclopedia of Nationalism (Academic Press, 2000); Thinking Theoretically about Soviet Nationalities: History and Comparison in the Study of the USSR (Columbia University Press, 1992); The Post Soviet Nations: Perspectives on the Demise of the USSR (Columbia University Press, 1992).
His most recent books are novels, Whiskey Priest (2005) and Who Killed Andrei Warhol (2007). Motyl is also a painter. He is represented by The Tori Collection (www.toricollection.com).
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World Affairs Council of the Florida Palm Beaches
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