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The Krasno Global Event Series had the honour of welcoming Dr. Jeffrey Jones & Dr. Stephan Kieninger to discuss RUSSIA and its RELATIONS
with the U.S. & EUROPE: From the Soviet-Afghan War & the Yeltsin Years
to the Rise of Vladimir Putin"
Dr Jeffrey Jones
Jeff Jones is a Professor of Russian/Soviet and Contemporary World History at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. He is the author of several articles and three books, including two recent ones: Smoke, Mirrors, and Memories: Legacies of the Soviet-Afghan War (University of Toronto Press, August 2025), and Contemporary World History Since 1945 (Routledge, October 2025).
He received the 2024 Mary Settle Sharp UNCG Alumni Teaching Excellence Award and the 2024-25 UNCG College of Arts & Sciences Senior Teaching Excellence Award.
Dr Stephan Kieninger
Stephan Kieninger is a Non-Resident Fellow at the American-German Institute in Washington DC and Non-Resident Fellow at the Harvard Cold War Studies Project. He is the author of several articles and three books, including Securing Peace in Europe. Strobe Talbott, NATO, and Russia after the Cold War (Columbia University Press, 2025).
Stephan Kieninger received his PhD from Mannheim University in Germany. Formerly, he was a Wilson Fellow and a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center, a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University/SAIS, a fellow at the Berlin Center for Cold War Studies, and a senior researcher at the Federal German Archives.
Check out our Tik Tok @krasno.global.lec for clips from all our previous talks this year.
and
Check out our global policy forum playlist to see all the discussions had.
The Krasno Global Event Series had the honour of welcoming Dr. Jeffrey Jones & Dr. Stephan Kieninger to discuss RUSSIA and its RELATIONS
with the U.S. & EUROPE: From the Soviet-Afghan War & the Yeltsin Years
to the Rise of Vladimir Putin"
Dr Jeffrey Jones
Jeff Jones is a Professor of Russian/Soviet and Contemporary World History at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. He is the author of several articles and three books, including two recent ones: Smoke, Mirrors, and Memories: Legacies of the Soviet-Afghan War (University of Toronto Press, August 2025), and Contemporary World History Since 1945 (Routledge, October 2025).
He received the 2024 Mary Settle Sharp UNCG Alumni Teaching Excellence Award and the 2024-25 UNCG College of Arts & Sciences Senior Teaching Excellence Award.
Dr Stephan Kieninger
Stephan Kieninger is a Non-Resident Fellow at the American-German Institute in Washington DC and Non-Resident Fellow at the Harvard Cold War Studies Project. He is the author of several articles and three books, including Securing Peace in Europe. Strobe Talbott, NATO, and Russia after the Cold War (Columbia University Press, 2025).
Stephan Kieninger received his PhD from Mannheim University in Germany. Formerly, he was a Wilson Fellow and a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center, a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University/SAIS, a fellow at the Berlin Center for Cold War Studies, and a senior researcher at the Federal German Archives.
Check out our Tik Tok @krasno.global.lec for clips from all our previous talks this year.
and
Check out our global policy forum playlist to see all the discussions had.
