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Fiasco: Mark Galeotti on How Putin’s Wars Shaped Modern Russia

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Economics

How Putin's wars have influenced the country's politics and how politics in turn have influenced Putin’s military campaigns

Mark Galeotti is one of the world’s leading experts on modern Russia and in January 2023 he came to Intelligence Squared to talk about the themes of his new book Putin’s Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine. In conversation with the New Statesman’s Katie Stallard, Galeotti detailed how Vladimir Putin and his conflicts have shaped Russia in the 21st century. He showed how Putin has waged his wars, detailing the two incursions into Georgia, the annexation of Crimea and the eventual invasion of Ukraine, and explained how those wars have influenced the country’s politics and how politics in turn have influenced Putin’s military campaigns.

Praise for Mark Galeotti’s Putin’s Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine

‘Galeotti’s work is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand current events in Ukraine.’ – Gillian Tett, The Financial Times 

‘This is a vivid account of how Putin has used armed force during his time in power, culminating in the deadly war in Ukraine.’ ― Sir Lawrence Freedman, Emeritus Professor of War Studies, King’s College London

 

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Speakers for the motion

  • Mark Galeotti

    Honorary professor at UCL SSEES and author of Putin’s Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine

Chair

  • Katie Stallard

    Senior Editor, China and global affairs, at the New Statesman

Speakers are subject to change.

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For the motion

Mark Galeotti

Honorary professor at UCL SSEES and author of Putin’s Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine

Honorary professor at UCL SSEES and senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute. An expert on transnational crime and Russian security affairs, Galeotti has written numerous books including The Vory, We Need To Talk About Putin: How the West gets him wrong and The Weaponisation of Everything: A Field Guide to the New Way of War. 
Chair

Katie Stallard

Senior Editor, China and global affairs, at the New Statesman

Senior Editor, China and global affairs, at The New Statesman, and the author of Dancing on Bones: History and Power in China, Russia, and North Korea. She is a non-resident global fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington, DC, and was previously based in Russia and China as a foreign correspondent for Sky News.