Mikhail Gorbachev: Impact and Legacies

SFS scholars including Joel Hellman, Angela Stent, Jill Dougherty, Theresa Sabonis-Helf and Maria Snegovaya will offer their reflections on the career of the late Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and how he is being remembered in Russia and the West.

About the Guest Speakers:

Joel Hellman is dean of the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown. He has a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University and an M.Phil. from the University of Oxford in Russian and East European Studies. Before coming to Georgetown, he served as a faculty member in the Department of Government at Harvard University, the Department of Political Science at Columbia University and as chief institutional economist at the World Bank.

Angela Stent is professor emerita of Georgetown's Department of Government. She directed CERES for twenty years. She is also a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and co-chairs its Hewett Forum on Post-Soviet Affairs. From 2004 to 2006, she served as the national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia at the National Intelligence Council. Stent’s academic work focuses on the triangular political and economic relationship between the United States, Russia and Europe.

Jill Dougherty is an adjunct professor for CERES, a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. and a member of the Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute Advisory Council. An expert on Russia and the post-Soviet region, she served as CNN correspondent for three decades including a long stint as CNN's Moscow Bureau Chief.

Theresa Sabonis-Helf is the Inaugural Chair of the Science, Technology and International Affairs concentration in the Master’s Degree program at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. Prior to joining Georgetown, she was a Professor of National Security Strategy at the National War College in Washington DC. She has lived and worked in seven countries of the Former USSR, has assisted two nations with the development of their first National Security Strategies, and has co-edited two volumes on Central Asia's political and economic transition.

Maria Snegovaya (PhD, Columbia University) is a Postdoctoral Fellow in CERES, a Fellow at the Illiberalism Studies Program at George Washington University, and an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the CNAS. The key focus of her research is democratic backsliding and re-autocratization in postcommunist Europe and the tactics used by Russian actors and proxies who circulate disinformation to exploit these dynamics in the region. Throughout her career she has collaborated with multiple U.S. research centers and think tanks.

This event is sponsored by Georgetown University’s Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies (CERES) and by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

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