Nukes vs. Tanks: The Challenge of Putin and the Future of European Security

Abstract: Russia is on a roll and Ukraine is retreating while isolationist tendencies in Europe and in the U.S. are rising. Funds for Ukraine are at risk in Congress and Berlin is withholding longer-range weapons that could disrupt the Russian order of battle. Hungary, a NATO and EU member, is sidling up to Putin. Unless these trends are reversed, Ukraine will fall - with dreadful consequences for Europe and America's standing in the world. This battle is not just about a faraway small country like Czechoslovakia in 1938. But about the future of a European order that has guaranteed the peace for a lifetime.

Bio: Mr. Josef Joffe is the former editor-in-chief of the German weekly Die Zeit, Josef Joffe has returned to academia. He has taught international politics, American foreign policy and political thought at Johns Hopkins/SAIS in DC and Bologna, Stanford and Harvard. He is a Distinguished Fellow at Stanford and a Sr. Fellow at SAIS. In 2005, he co-founded the foreign policy journal The American Interest with Zbigniew Brzezinski, Elliott Cohen and Francis Fukuyama. He is also co-founder of its successor American Purpose.