{"id":39545,"date":"2019-10-01T15:09:09","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T19:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=39545"},"modified":"2021-02-17T16:32:49","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T21:32:49","slug":"beyond-the-headlines-the-russia-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2019\/10\/01\/beyond-the-headlines-the-russia-trap\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the Headlines: The Russia Trap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2019\/10\/BtHRussia1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2019\/10\/BtHRussia1-516x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"516\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-39555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2019\/10\/BtHRussia1-516x300.png 516w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2019\/10\/BtHRussia1-768x447.png 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2019\/10\/BtHRussia1-1024x596.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>The\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/tag\/beyond-the-headlines\/\">Beyond the Headlines @BUPardeeSchool<\/a><span>, or BtH,\u00a0<\/span><span>series at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University continued on October 1, 2019\u00a0with a conversation on the shadow war between the United States and Russia and the associated threat of nuclear catastrophe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The discussion, entitled\u00a0&#8220;The Russia Trap: How Our Shadow War with Russia Could Spiral into Nuclear Catastrophe,&#8221; featured\u00a0George Beebe, Vice President of the Center for the National Interest and former head of the Central Intelligence Agency&#8217;s Russia Desk; and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/joseph-wippl\/\">Joseph Wippl,<\/a>\u00a0Pardee School Professor of the Practice of International Relations.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the panel below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FBUPardeeSchool%2Fvideos%2F547350789359017%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/tag\/beyond-the-headlines\/\">Beyond the Headlines<\/a><span>\u00a0is a regular series at the\u00a0Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies which\u00a0seeks\u00a0<\/span><span>to cultivate informed conversations among experts and\u00a0practitioners\u00a0on issues that are currently in the news headlines, but to do so with a focus on intellectual analysis and on longer-range trends. Recent Beyond the Headlines discussions\u00a0have focused on topics including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2019\/04\/02\/beyond-the-headlines-brexit-implications-for-the-uk-and-world\/\">Brexit<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2019\/03\/06\/beyond-the-headlines-women-in-domestic-and-global-governing\/\">International Women\u2019s Day<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2018\/11\/08\/beyond-the-headlines-implications-of-the-brazilian-elections\/\">the most recent Brazilian elections<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2018\/10\/24\/beyond-the-headlines-sen-javed-jabbar-on-the-future-of-pakistan\/\"><\/a>, and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2018\/02\/26\/beyond-the-headlines-rohingya-crisis-in-myanmar\/\">Rohingya crisis in Myanmar<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Beyond the Headlines series continued with a discussion entitled &#8220;The Russia Trap.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11588,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11789],"tags":[11087,11392,1170,11391],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39545"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39557,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39545\/revisions\/39557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}