Can The West ever be Reconciled with Russia? - Professor Mark Galeotti

The UK's leading forum for international politics and global issues, founded in 1980. Can The West ever be Reconciled with Russia? - Professor Mark Galeotti Where does Russia’s geopolitical future lie? Asia and the Global South offer growing markets, and Putin’s war with Ukraine has seen him embrace China as an ally. But Putin is increasingly reliant on what Mark Galeotti ambitious officials in the second echelon of power in Russia, who are the ones who actually execute Putin’s policies. They are the first truly post-Soviet political generation in Russia – haven’t yet bought into Putin’s worldview. They worry that Russia risks becoming China’s vassal, and see an opportunity for Russia to attempt to recover friendly relations with Europe, while the US vacates the continent in its pivot to Asia. Galeotti suggests that Russia’s future depends on the outcome of this struggle with officials in the second echelon of power in Russia. Mark Galeotti is a British historian and writer specializing in transnational crime and Russian security affairs. He has been Head of History at Keele University, Professor of Global Affairs at New York University, a visiting professor at Rutgers-Newark (Newark), Charles University (Prague), MGIMO (Moscow), and a senior research fellow at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office. As well as being the founder and CEO of Mayak Intelligence, he is an Honorary Professor at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, a Senior Non-Resident Fellow of the Institute of International Relations, Prague, a Senior Associate Fellow at RUSI and an Associate Fellow at the Council on Geostrategy. He consults widely for government and commercial clients across Europe and North America. Mark is a prolific author with some 30 books on Russia, most recently Forged in War: a military history of Russia from its beginnings to today (2024) and Putin's Wars (2022). Since the start of the Ukraine War, he has written regularly for The Spectator and, largely based on these publications, was banned by the Russian government from travelling to Russia in 2022.