2022 World Affairs Council of the Year
Network of Independent World Affairs Councils of America

Program | Russian-American Relations: From Obama to Trump | Jan 17

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The Tennessee World Affairs Council, the International Center for Business at Belmont University and the Nashville Chamber’s International Business Council in association with the Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute present

Russian-American Relations:  

From Obama to Trump

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with Dr. Mark Katz, Ph.D.

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“Kennan Conversation” Speaker

January 17, 2017

5:30 Check-in/Networking

6:00-7:30 pm – Program

at Belmont University

Frist Lecture Hall, Inman (IHSB)

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Free but Registration Requested

This event is part of the “Kennan Conversations” program of the Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute. The Kennan Conversation program brings top experts on Russia and the region to cities across the United States, so that local audiences have the opportunity to listen to and engage with them and learn more about this increasingly important part of the world.

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Additional Background Information – Kennan Institute

This program counts toward credit for the Tennessee Global Scholars Certificate


Review articles and reports relevant to our Town Hall conversation on the challenges ahead for POTUS 45.


professor_mark_katzMark N. Katz is a professor of government and politics at the George Mason University Schar School of Policy and Government, and a non-resident fellow at The Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington.

Katz was born and raised in Riverside, California.  He earned a B.A. in international relations from the University of California at Riverside in 1976, an M.A. in international relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in 1978, and a Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1982.

Before starting to teach at George Mason University in 1988, he was a research fellow at the Brookings Institution (1980-81), held a temporary appointment as a Soviet affairs analyst at the U.S. Department of State (1982), was a Rockefeller Foundation international relations fellow (1982-84), and was both a Kennan Institute/Wilson Center research scholar (1985) and research associate (1985-87). He has also received a U.S. Institute of Peace fellowship (1989-90) and grant (1994-95), and several Earhart Foundation fellowship research grants.

He has been a visiting scholar at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies (Riyadh, May 2001), the Hokkaido University Slavic Research Center (Sapporo, June-July 2007), the Higher School of Economics (Moscow, March 2010), and the Middle East Policy Council (Washington, DC, September 2010-January 2011).


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