Jack Matlock, Robert Pearson, and Dimitar Bechev give an international relations perspective to the current events in Turkey and Russia.
Jack Matlock is a former ambassador to Russia. Robert Pearson is a former ambassador to Turkey. Dimitar Bechev is director of the European Policy Institute and the author of "Rival Power: Russia in Southeast Europe" (Yale University Press, 2017).
This conversation was sponsored by Duke University Center for International and Global Studies, Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies, Forum for Scholars and Publics, and Political Science.
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