Author and Princeton University historian Stephen Kotkin, an expert on Russia and foreign affairs, will give a free online presentation at 3 p.m. Tuesday, April 26, through the University of Idaho’s Martin Institute.
The talk, “Ukraine, Russia, China – The World,” can be accessed at bit.ly/Kotkinspeaks.
Kotkin, the John P. Birkelund Professor of History and International Affairs at Princeton University, directs the school’s Institute for International and Regional Studies and is founder and co-director of its History and the Practice of Diplomacy program.
He published two volumes of a three-volume world history series, “Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928” and “Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941,” and his reviews and essays appear in Foreign Affairs, the Times Literary Supplement and the Wall Street Journal. He also served as the business book reviewer for the New York Times Sunday Business section.
The Martin Institute lecture series, the Martin Forums, began in 1999. The nonpartisan lectures, featuring experts from the University of Idaho community and beyond, have covered a range of issues, including war and peace, human rights, resources and development and socioeconomics.
