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URL:https://bluehillpeninsula.org/events/colloquy-downeast-understanding-r
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SUMMARY:Colloquy Downeast - Understanding Russia Today
DESCRIPTION:Facilitator – Courtenay Haight\nDate and Time – Fridays\, 1
 0:00am – 12:00pm\, Feb 26\, Mar 4\, 11\, 18.\nLocation – Howard Room\,
  Blue Hill Public Library\n\nThis colloquy will be divided into two segmen
 ts:\nA) The historical and political basis of why Russia and its leadershi
 p is presently acting on the world stage as it is. A brief review of post-
 Soviet era Russia and it’s leadership in the 1980’s and 1990’s\, mig
 ht help explain the popularity of a leader such as Putin within his own co
 untry.\n\nB) What should be the West”s and the U.S. reaction to present 
 Russian aggression in the Ukraine and elsewhere both presently and into th
 e future? There is a debate about what our reaction should be—those sugg
 esting a re-imposition of the policy of sustained “containment” which 
 dominated the West’s policy toward the Soviet Union for many years prior
  to the collapse of the Soviet state\; and those suggesting a more “libe
 ral” view which acknowledges Russia’s “sphere of influence” vis-à
 -vis its neighbors. This latter view also acknowledges that sustained NATO
  expansion ever closer to Russia’s borders has taken place\, despite ass
 urances that this expansion would not happen.\nRecommended Reading Materia
 l\nA. “The Man without a Face”\, Masha Gessen\, Riverhead\, 2013\nB. 
 “Putin’s Russia\, Life in a Failing Democracy”\, Anna Politovskaya\,
  Henry Holt Company\, 2007\nC. “The Russian Moment in World History”\
 , Marshall T. Poe\, Princeton University Press\, 2013.\nD. “Armageddon 
 Averted”. Stephen Kotkin\, Oxford Univ. Press\, 2008\nE. “The Limits o
 f Partnership”\, Angela E. Stent\, Princeton Univ. Press 2014\n\nArticle
 s from Foreign Affairs Magazine:\n\n	Sep/Oct 2014\n\n	pp 87 ff\, by John M
 earsheimer\n	pp 90 ff\, by Mary Elise Sarotte\n\n\n	Nov/Dec 2014\n\n	pp 16
 7ff\, by Michael McFaul\, et al.\n\n\n	Jan/Feb 2015\n\n	pp 96ff\, by Matth
 ias Matthijs &amp\; G.F. Treverton\n	pp 108ff\, by Hans Kundnani\n	pp 150f
 f\, by Sarah E. Mendelson-a book review\n\n\n	May/Jun 2015\n\n	pp 48ff\, b
 y Ivan Krastev &amp\; Mark Leonard\n\n\n
LOCATION:Howard Room\, Blue Hill Public Library\, 5 Parker Point Rd\, Blue 
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