Brandeis Alumni Event - "War in Ukraine: Putin’s (Mis)calculations and the West’s Response"

Carol Saivetz

Friday, November 18

Senior Advisor at the MIT Security Studies Program

Research Associate at Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute

Carol R. Saivetz is a Senior Advisor in the MIT Security Studies Program. She is also a Research Associate at Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. She holds an M.I.A., M.Phil., and a PhD from Columbia University in Political Science and a certificate from what is now the Harriman Institute at Columbia. Between 1995-2005 she was the Executive Director of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, and between 1992-2006 she was a Lecturer in Government at Harvard. She is currently teaching Russian Foreign Policy in the Political Science Department at MIT. She is the author of many books and articles on Soviet and now Russian foreign policy issues, and current United States/Russian relations.