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The 34th Annual Richard W. Leopold Lecture will be delivered by Ambassador Michael McFaul, who will discuss Great Power Competition in the 21st Century: Lessons from the Cold War for Dealing with China and Russia Today, on October 17, 2023, at 5 pm CT at Cahn Auditorium. Ticket information will be available soon. 

In his talk, McFaul will compare the power, ideology, and visions of global order of the United States, China, and Russia while discussing what is similar and different between great power competition today and the Cold War.  

A moderated Q&A session will be held at the end of the talk. The lecture is free and open to the public.  

ABOUT AMBASSADOR MICHAEL MCFAUL
Michael A. McFaul served as Ambassador of the United States of America to the Russian Federation from January 2012 to February 2014. Prior to becoming Ambassador, he served for three years as the special assistant to the President and senior director for Russia and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council. Currently, McFaul is a professor of political science and a Hoover fellow at Stanford University. He is also director and senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI).