CEPA: Events (Is Central Europe a Victim of the Reset? A Conversation with Edward Lucas)

9 November 2009
CEPA Breakfast Briefing
Washington, DC
Program:
Edward Lucas, Central and East European correspondent for The Economist, joins CEPA for a Breakfast Briefing to discuss the view from Central Europe on America’s “reset” in Russian relations and new challenges to regional security and political stability.
Reporting extensively on Central and Eastern Europe since 1986, Mr. Lucas has provided thoughtful and insightful coverage of every major story in the region, focusing on the political and economic climate of the former communist countries and how current trends will affect the West. Mr. Lucas, who is an expert on energy security and on Russian foreign and security policy, studied economics at the London School of Economics and speaks five languages: German, Russian, Polish, Czech and Lithuanian. His up-to-minute perspective in his new book, “The New Cold War: Putin’s Russia and the Threat to the West,” warns that “Western powers have been dangerously divided, weak and complacent in the face of … new threats …”