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The risks that Russia's war in Ukraine will trigger a global financial crisis

A panel of Miller Center experts and guests examine the economic impact and global financial ramifications of Russia’s war in Ukraine. In particular, the panel assesses whether Russia is likely to experience an all-out crisis, and if so, how it might affect the European economy and global financial markets. Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic and with hopes for some recovery on the horizon, does this evolving crisis stymie the long-anticipated world economic recovery?

Robert Bruner

"The goal of the Watergate case is the same as that of the 'Catalangate'"

Bob Woodward himself, known for uncovering the Watergate scandal in the pages of the Washington Post, has called Ken Hughes "one of the leading U.S. experts on secret presidential recordings, especially those of Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon." The historian at the Miller Center at the University of Virginia (USA) has spent the last two decades exploring secret tapes of the White House and unearthing its secrets. Hughes is the author of Chasing Shadows: The Nixon Tapes, the Chennault Affair, and the Origins of Watergate and Fatal Politics: The Nixon Tapes, the Vietnam War and the Casualties of Reelection('Fatal politics: the Nixon tapes, the Vietnam War and the victims of re-election'). In this interview, he highlights some of the best-known elements of the Watergate case and links the connection points between the American scandal and the current Catalangate.

Ken Hughes

Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William B. Taylor Jr. on defeating Putin

William B. Taylor Jr., former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, joins a panel of Miller Center and UVA experts on war and foreign policy to analyze Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. As Taylor wrote recently: “Atrocities and mass civilian casualties, in a Russian assault that President Biden and others have labeled an act of genocide, only heighten the question for democracies of how to respond. Accountability will be vital. But an immediate imperative is to stop this aggression by defeating Putin and supporting Ukrainians’ battle to preserve their own freedom. That battle is crucial to the protection of international rule of law—and, given Putin’s implacability, to any hope for peace.”

Stephen D. Mull