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Participant Biographies
Dr. Mark Kramer is the Director of the Cold War Studies Project at the Davis Center. He is the author and/or editor of several books and has written nearly 200 articles on a variety of topics. He has worked extensively in newly opened archives in all the former Warsaw Pact countries and several Western countries. He edits both the Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series and the peer-reviewed Journal of Cold War Studies.
Dr. Ognyan Minchev is a professor of political science at the University of Sofia, Bulgaria. He is also the Executive Director of the Institute for Regional and International Studies (IRIS), an independent think tank, providing policy analyses on regional and international security and cooperation in Central and Eastern Europe. Dr. Minchev has lectured at many US and European universities and is the author of numerous publications on the post-Communist transition of Central and Eastern European countries and issues of international security a
A less cold war with Russia Print this article
The Russian government is escalating its confrontations with the West in order to test the Biden administration s resolve.
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