Town Hall With Russian Ambassador

The post Cold-War era welcomed new opportunities for a strategic partnership and cooperation between the United States and the Russian Federation. In recent years, however, developments in the global arena have seen partnership and cooperation challenged by confrontation. The intenational stage where Washington and Moscow meet continues to include areas of cooperative effort such as partnering in the P5+1 agreement with Iran to prevent a nuclear weapons program there, serving as the central powers in diplomacy to resolve the Syrian crisis and day-to-day cooperation like work on the International Space Station. But there are theaters of serious confrontation as well, foremost being the conflict in Ukraine and East-West rhetoric and behavior reminiscent of earlier and darker days. To understand the state of the relationship between the United States and the Russian Federation the Tennessee World Affairs Council and Belmont University are pleased to host H.E. Ambassador Sergey I. Kislyak at a town hall event. The program is open to all. Registration is required.