On Thursday, September 14, the Graduate Initiative in Russian Studies had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Michael Kimmage to lecture here at MIIS. His lecture was titled, “Outlines of a New Diplomacy: On the Future of U.S.-Russian Relations.” In addition, Dr. Kimmage hosted an informal meeting with MIIS students to facilitate a discussion on students’ outlooks on the Ukraine Crisis.
Dr. Kimmage is a professor of history at the Catholic University of America. From 2014 to 2016 he served on the Secretary’s Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State where he held the Russia/Ukraine portfolio.
Dr. Kimmage is the author of The Conservative Turn: Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers, and the Lessons of Anti-Communism (2009), In History’s Grip: Philip Roth’s Newark Trilogy (2012). He is also the author of Getting Beyond Minsk: Toward a Resolution of the Conflict in Ukraine (2017).
His next book, The Decline of the West: An American Story, will be published by Basic Books in late 2017.