Russia: Looking Back, Looking Forward

Book Launch

The U.S. Institute of Peace is pleased to announce that this event will now feature both authors of this intriguing volume, Richard Schifter and Anatoly Adamishin.

As the Obama administration seeks to re-engage Russia on military, economic and human rights issues, the United States Institute of Peace announces the release of Human Rights, Perestroika, and the End of the Cold War (USIP Press, July 2009). This diplomatic memoir, co-authored by a Soviet and an American diplomat, explores their unlikely partnership and role in the transformation of Soviet-American relations. Understanding the crucial events occurring at the end of the Cold War and the achievements of the human rights negotiations of that era is vital to the success of new negotiations between the United States and Russia. Richard Schifter and panelists will discuss past events, future possibilities and how these two countries can conduct effective diplomacy.

The book will be available for purchase at the event.

 Speakers

• Richard Schifter
  Former U.S. Representative to the U.N. Human Rights Commission
  Former Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights
  Co-author of Human Rights, Perestroika, and the End of the Cold War
• Anatoly Adamishin
  Former USSR Deputy Foreign Minister
  Former U.S. Institute of Peace Jennings Randolph Guest Scholar
  Co-author of Human Rights, Perestroika, and the End of the Cold War
• Hope M. Harrison
  Director, Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies
  Associate Professor of History and International Affairs, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University
• David J. Kramer
  Senior Transatlantic Fellow, The German Marshall Fund
• Andrew C. Kuchins
  Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies
• Toby T. Gati, Moderator
  Senior International Advisor, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld, LLP