Thom Shanker Talk - Perestroika to Putin: Understanding How the U.S. - Russia Relationship Became So Dangerous Today

The Washington-Moscow relationship has frayed to the point of rupturing into full-blown crisis, even war. What steps can—or should—Washington take to mend these fault lines? Veteran foreign correspondent and editor Thom Shanker provides his insights based on decades in the field.

This free event is sponsored by the Gerry Taylor Seminars Endowed Fund.

Zoom Webinar - Zoom details provided upon registration.

In Person Option - For MIIS faculty, students, and staff only.

Registration required for Zoom and in person options. Register at: go.miis.edu/thomshanker

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Thom Shanker

After capping an almost three-decade journalistic career with the New York Times and Chicago Tribune, Shanker was named Director of the Project for Media & National Security at George Washington University in June 2021. This program is dedicated to deepening public understanding of important, complex national security issues and providing media and the public with a greater understanding of the context and the nuances of the nation’s security challenges.

Shanker’s distinguished career has included serving as the Times’ Pentagon correspondent, covering the Department of Defense, overseas combat operations and national security policy during the war in Afghanistan, numerous embedded assignments, and dozens of reporting trips to Afghanistan and Iraq. More recently, he was Deputy Washington Editor for The Times, covering the military, diplomacy and veterans’ affairs. Before joining The Times, he was foreign editor and senior European correspondent for The Chicago Tribune, based in Berlin, where he covered the wars in former Yugoslavia. He also was Moscow correspondent for the Tribune, covering the start of the Gorbachev era to the death of the Soviet Union and the collapse of the communist empire in Eastern Europe.

In 2011, Shanker co-authored “Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America’s Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda,” published by Henry Holt & Co., which rose to the New York Times best seller list.