Crisis in Ukraine: Unpacking Europe & NATO’s Responses to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Registration required: https://utexas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwpfu-uqjIoGNEz7ATmbjCzr1mtmYtc1REJ
On Monday, March 7, the Strauss Center for National Security and Law, Clements Center for National Security, Intelligence Studies Project, and Center for European Studies will host an expert panel to discuss the ongoing crisis in Ukraine with a focus on Europe & Nato’s response.
Following the invasion of Ukraine, European foreign and defense policies changed course swiftly over a period of about 48 hours. Germany drastically increased its permanent defense funding. Even countries that have taken a historically neutral stance during international conflicts have engaged in banking and financial sanctions, provided arms and assistance to Ukrainian forces. What are the impacts of such actions and what may be some possible implications in regard to European and transatlantic security?
Please join the Center for European Studies, the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, the Clements Center for National Security, and the Intelligence Studies Project, for “Crisis in Ukraine: Unpacking Europe and NATO’s Responses to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine.” Our panel of experts as they discuss the significance of actions taken by European nations, the European Union, and NATO in response to Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, and will provide their perspectives on such decisions’ implications on regional and international security.
Panelists:
- Dr. Sharyl N. Cross, Distinguished Professor and Director of the Kozmetsky Center for Excellence, St. Edward’s University
- Dr. J. Paul Pope, Professor of Practice, LBJ School of Public Affairs and Senior Fellow, Intelligence Studies Project, UT Austin
- Dr. Lorinc Redei, Associate Professor of Instruction, LBJ School of Public Affairs, UT Austin
- Dr. Michael Mosser (panel chair), Assistant Director for the Center for European Studies and Associate Professor of Instruction, UT Austin
Biographies
Dr. Sharyl Cross is Director of the Kozmetsky Center of Excellence and Distinguished Professor of International Politics and Security Studies at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas USA. She was Global Policy Fellow at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2013-2021. From 2005-2013, Dr. Cross was Professor in the College of International and Security Studies at the George C. MarshallEuropean Center for Security Studies in Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany. She was Director of Academics for both the Program in Advanced Security Studies and Senior Executive Seminar and served in leadership capacities for the Marshall Center’s strategic outreach engagement initiatives in Russia, Eurasia, and South-Eastern Europe. Prior to the Marshall Center, Dr. Cross had been appointed Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the United States Air Force Academy.
Professor Cross earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1990 with concentrations in International Relations, Comparative Politics (Soviet Union/Russia/Eastern Europe and Latin America regional concentrations), and American Foreign and Security Policy. While in the UCLA graduate program, she was also a resident fellowship scholar and consultant at the RAND Corporationcompleting the UCLA and RAND programs in Russian area and policy studies. Originally from Arizona, Dr. Cross graduated Phi Beta Kappa with Honors in Political Science from the University of Arizona in 1983.
In 1999, Dr. Cross was awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholar grant to support affiliations as Visiting Research Scholar and Professor of International Relations at the Institute of USA and Canada Studies in the Russian Academy of Sciences and Moscow State Institute of international relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (MGIMO). She was a Visiting Assistant/Associate Professor of TransregionalSecurity Studies (Russia/Eurasia and Latin America) at the United States Air War College at Maxwell AFB from 1994-1996 and was a Post-Doctoral Fellowship Scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in 1991-1993 continuing research and completing publications on her dissertation topic.
Her most recent book China, Russia, and Twenty-First Century Global Geopolitics co-authored with Paul J. Bolt was published by Oxford University Press in 2018. Her edited books include Shaping southeast Europe’s Security Community: Trust, Partnership, and Integration, Macmillan, New Security Challenges Series (2013), The United States, Russia, and China: Confronting Global Terrorism and Security Challenges in the Twenty-First Century, Praeger Security International Series (2008), Global Security Beyond the Millennium: American and Russian Perspectives, MacmillanPress (1999), and The New Chapter in United States-Russian Relations: Opportunities and Challenges, Praeger (1994). She has published extensively in leading professional peer-reviewed journals including Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Journal of Slavic Military Studies, Asian Security, Journal of Strategic Security, Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, Nationalities Papers, Mediterranean Quarterly, Survey, Journal of Political and Military Sociology, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Connections, USA: Economics, Politics, Ideology(Russian Academy of Sciences), and others. Dr. Cross has received additional awards in support of her research from NATO-EAPC, U.S. Air Force Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), Office of the Secretary of Defense, Kennan Institute/Wilson Center, California State University, American Association for University Women, International Research and Exchanges Board, and University of California, Institute for Global Conflict andCooperation.
While residing in Germany, Dr. Cross directed a major multi-country and multi-disciplinary project for the Marshall Center devoted to exploring dimensions of countering violent extremist ideology involving the participation of more than sixty nations. She routinely lectured on international security topics at the NATO School in Oberammergau Germany. Dr. Cross has briefed and consulted for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, United States European Command, U.S. State Department, and U.S. Congress. In 2013, she received the U.S. Army Commander’s Award and Defense Security Cooperation Agency’s (DSCA) Director’s Award issued with the approval of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee recognizing contributions to building international security cooperation while at the Marshall Center.
Dr. Cross serves on the editorial boards for the peer review Journal of Strategic Security and the Journal of Southeastern Europe. She was recently elected to serve a three-year term as Chair of the Research Committee on Geopolitics for the International Political Science Association (IPSA). She was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Atlantic Council of Montenegro in 2015 and held previous leadership positions as liaison representative for the Marshall Center for the forum on cyber security at Moscow State University, Lomonosov Institute, and served on the academic and scientific advisory board for the New Policy Forum sponsored by the Gorbachev Foundation Moscow. Dr. Cross currently co-directs the Kozmetsky Center-World Affairs Council Austin “Forum on Global Investment, Finance, Emerging Markets, and Geopolitical Risk” and a project on Religion and International Security together with faculty of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University with support of the Public Diplomacy Engagement section of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO involving collaboration with a consortium of American, European, and Eurasian universities and policy centers. She has been a frequent contributor to major professional foreign policy forums throughout Europe and Eurasia and has lectured in the United States for the Council on Foreign Relations, World Affairs Council, and leading universities and corporations.
James “Paul” Pope is a professor of practice in the LBJ School of Public Affairs and a senior fellow in the Intelligence Studies Project, which is sponsored by the Strauss and Clements Centers. He retired from the CIA after multiple foreign tours, serving as chief of station and assignments as chief, deputy chief, and chief of operations in the Directorate of Operations’ three largest components. As chief of the Tradecraft and Training Division, Pope was responsible for DO training, capturing “lessons learned,” and adapting training and tradecraft to emerging technical challenges and mission imperatives. He was assistant deputy director of National Intelligence for Strategic Partnership and later acting assistant director of National Intelligence for Partner Engagement for almost a year.
Pope served as head of delegation to NATO’s Civilian Intelligence Committee and as the DNI/DCIA representative to the commander, U.S. Pacific Command, and its component commands. Prior to the NCS, he served on the National Intelligence Council for the Near East and South Asia and led an analytic branch in the Directorate of Intelligence. Pope was an Army officer, with service on the Army General Staff after twice commanding at the company level, including command of the only active firebase in the Army on the Korean DMZ. He received his M.A. With Distinction from the Naval Postgraduate School and B.S. from the United States Military Academy at West Point. Pope is a distinguished graduate of Command and General Staff College, a graduate of the National War College’s CAPSTONE course, and a graduate the Pinnacle Course for senior executives at the Kellogg School of Northwestern University.
Lorinc Redei joined the LBJ School as a full-time lecturer in 2013, and he now also serves as the graduate adviser for its Global Policy Studies Program. He has previous teaching experience at Southwestern University and has also worked in the policy world. From 2005 to 2008 and during the spring of 2011, he served as a press officer in the European Parliament, the directly elected legislature of the European Union. He managed relations with the press corps on the Parliament’s activities in the realm of foreign affairs, especially the work of its Foreign Affairs Committee. Redei’s research takes advantage of these experiences. He writes about European politics, the European Union—especially its foreign and security policy—the role of the European Parliament in this field and in parliamentary diplomacy.
Michael W. Mosser is Associate Professor of Instruction at the University of Texas at Austin with a joint appointment in the Department of Government, the Center for European Studies (CES), and the International Relations and Global Studies (IRG) program. He is also Assistant Director of the Center for European Studies (CES) at UT-Austin, as well as a Distinguished Scholar in the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law. He teaches courses in European and international security, European environmental policy, comparative and European politics, international organizations, and foreign policy analysis. He is the faculty advisor for the University of Texas at Austin’s “Peace Corps Prep” program, as well as the faculty liaison to the US Department of State’s “Diplomacy Lab” program. He serves on various academic advisory bodies on campus, including as an Ambassador in the Experiential Learning Initiative (ELI) and member of the non-traditional student (NTS) advisory board. He has won multiple awards for his teaching at UT-Austin, most notably being selected as a member of the 2021 “Texas Ten” by the Texas Exes, and the 2016 Raymond Dickson Centennial Endowed Teaching Fellowship.