In his compelling new book "Collisions: The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability" (Oxford University Press 2024), Michael Kimmage traces the origins of Russia’s war against Ukraine and tells the history of the current war through the lens of three collisions between Russia and Ukraine, the United States and Europe in 2008-2013, 2013-2021 and 2021-2023. In conversation with ZOiS Director Gwendolyn Sasse, he will unpack these collisions and analyse the far-reaching global impacts of this war, such as the fragmentation of international politics, higher inflation, greater food insecurity, and the general collapse of global arms control. These intersecting dangers, Kimmage argues, amount to a new age of global instability.

Participants:

• Michael Kimmage is Professor of History at the Catholic University of America and a Non-resident Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. From 2014 to 2016, he served on the Secretary's Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State, where he handled the Ukraine/Russia portfolio. He is one of the most prominent US-based commentators on the war in Ukraine and its implications. Here, you can find information about his latest book.

• Gwendolyn Sasse is the Director of ZOiS and Einstein Professor for the Comparative Study of Democracy and Authoritarianism at the Department of Social Sciences of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She is the author of Russia’s War against Ukraine (Polity Press 2023).

If you would like to take part in the event, please register by e-mail at events(at)zois-berlin(dot)de.