Summer Video Series 2011: Matthew Rojansky on "U.S.-Russia Relations Post-Reset"

Don't let summer keep you from intellectual pursuits! As John Dewey (ΦBK, Univ. of Vermont, 1879) once said, "Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself." In that spirit we present the Phi Beta Kappa Summer Video Series. Over the course of the summer, we will post one lecture from preeminent scholars in a variety of fields, each on an original and timely topic.

Matthew Rojansky is the Deputy Director of the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. An expert on U.S. and Russian national security and nuclear weapons policies, his work focuses on relations among the United States, NATO, and the states of the former Soviet Union. He has served as executive director of the Partnership for a Secure America, an organization that seeks to rebuild bipartisan dialogue and productive debate on U.S. national security and foreign policy challenges. Mr. Rojansky earned a J.D. at Stanford Law School and was inducted to Phi Beta Kappa as an undergraduate at Harvard University.

Here, he discusses the 2009 Obama-driven "reset" of U.S.-Russian relations. He notes cultural, economic and geopolitical factors affecting this relationship, and gives policy prescriptions for the future of U.S.-Russian collaboration.

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