Event Highlight

Experts Analyze Crisis in US-Ukraine Relations

Posted Oct 29 2026

On October 29, the Institute of Global Politics hosted a webinar titled “Winter is Coming: Analyzing the Crisis in US-Ukraine Relations.” The discussion was introduced by IGP Executive Director Daniel Benaim and featured Oleksandr Kubrakov, Ukraine’s former deputy prime minister and minister for reconstruction and chairman of We Build Ukraine; Rebecca Lissner, senior fellow for US foreign policy and director of the Future of American Strategy Initiative at the Council on Foreign Relations; JP McGee, retired US Army lieutenant general and former director for strategy, plans, and policy of the Joint Staff; Christopher Miller, chief Ukraine correspondent at the Financial Times; and Andrew Peek, former senior director for European and Russian affairs at the National Security Council. The conversation, moderated by David Shimer, adjunct senior research scholar and IGP Affiliated Faculty member at Columbia SIPA, included a live Q&A session with attendees.