WAR BY OTHER MEANS - THE KREMLIN'S NEGOTIATING PLAYBOOK

About this episode

This episode features a discussion on negotiating strategies with Putin's Russia with veteran diplomats.

On The Power Vertical Podcast this week, host Brian Whitmore speaks with two veteran diplomats, former U.S. State Department official Donald Jensen, who is currently an an adjunct professor in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University and an adjunct fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies; and Osmolovska, a 15-year veteran of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry who now serves as the head of GLOBSEC's Kyiv office. They are the co-authors of an important, exhaustively researched, and very timely report, "Adversary at the Table: Negotiating with Putin's Russia," which was released this week by the Atlantic Council.

People in this episode

Host: Brian Whitmore

Guests: Donald Jensen, Osmolovska

Topics covered

• negotiation
• diplomacy
• Russia
• Ukraine
• foreign policy
• Putin

Keywords

• Kremlin
• negotiating playbook
• diplomats
• foreign ministry
• Ukraine
• Russia

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Johns Hopkins University, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, GLOBSEC, Atlantic Council

Books & works: Adversary at the Table: Negotiating with Putin's Russia

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