Media and Culture Speakers Series: Edward Lucas of 'The Economist', author of 'The New Cold War'

Begins
 21 Feb 2008 - 4:00pm
Ends
 21 Feb 2008 - 6:00pm
Location
GPIA Conference Room, Rm. 609, 66 W 12th St.

Media and Culture Speakers Series presents

Edward Lucas of The Economist

Speaking about his new book

The New Cold War:
The Future of Russia and the Threat to the West
(Palgrave-Macmillan, 2008)

Thursday, February 21st
4 - 6 p.m.
GPIA Conference Room, 66 W 12th St., Room 609

Edward Lucas is the Central and Eastern Europe correspondent for The Economist. He has been covering the region for more than 20 years, witnessing the final years of the last Cold War, the fall of the Iron Curtain and the collapse of the Soviet empire, Boris Yeltsin's downfall and Vladimir Putin's rise to power. From 1992 to 1994, he was the managing editor of The Baltic Independent, a weekly English-language newspaper published in Tallinn. He holds a BSc from the London School of Economics, and studied Polish at the Jagiellonian University, Cracow. The New Cold War is his first book.


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