McFaul

Michael McFaul, U.S. ambassador to Russia 2012-14, will deliver the 2015 Bartels World Affairs Lecture, “A New Cold War? Explaining Russia’s New Confrontation with the West,” Monday, March 16, at 4:30 p.m. in Statler Auditorium.

McFaul served for five years in the Obama administration, first as special assistant to the president and senior director for Russian and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council at the White House (2009-12). He has written several books including “Russia’s Unfinished Revolution: Political Change from Gorbachev to Putin.”

He is professor of political science and director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, and the Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he co-directs the Iran Democracy Project. He is also a nonresident senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

McFaul’s research interests include democracy promotion, comparative democratization and the relationship between political and economic reform in the post-communist world.

McFaul serves on the boards of directors of the Eurasia Foundation, the Firebird Fund, Freedom House, the International Forum for Democratic Studies of the National Endowment for Democracy and the International Research and Exchange Board. He serves on the editorial boards of Current History, Journal of Democracy, Demokratizatsiya, Perspectives on European Politics and Society, Post-Soviet Affairs, and The Washington Quarterly.

The Henry E. and Nancy Horton Bartels World Affairs Fellowship, established in 1984, brings prominent international leaders to Cornell to foster a broadened worldview among Cornell students.