In our first episode, we discuss with Mariana Budjeryn, a Research Associate at Harvard Kennedy School, the history and current challenges of the Russia-Ukraine crisis.

Our Guest Bio

Mariana Budjeryn is a Research Associate with the Project on Managing the Atom (MTA) at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center. Formerly, she held appointments as a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at MTA, a fellow at Harvard Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, and as a visiting professor at Tufts University and Peace Research Institute Frankfurt. Mariana’s research focuses on the international non-proliferation regime, arms control, and post-Soviet nuclear history. Her analytical contributions appeared in The Nonproliferation Review, Harvard International Review, World Affairs Journal, Arms Control Today, The Washington Post, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, War on the Rocks, and in the publications of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars where she is a Global Fellow. Mariana’s book 'Inheriting the Bomb: Soviet Collapse and Nuclear Disarmament of Ukraine' is forthcoming in 2022 with Johns Hopkins University Press. She holds a PhD in Political Science, an MA in International Relations from Central European University (formerly) in Budapest, Hungary, and a BA in Political Science from the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Ukraine.

Related Resources
Memorandum on security assurances in connection with Ukraine’s accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Budapest, 5 December 1994, United Nations Treaty Collection, Volume 3007, I-52241

Ukraine and the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (Mariana Budjeryn), The Wilson Center, Blog Post, October 15, 2018

The Breach: Ukraine’s Territorial Integrity and the Budapest Memorandum (Mariana Budjeryn), The Wilson Center, Nuclear Proliferation International History Project, Issue Brief #3

Documents Talk. NATO-RUSSIA Relations after the Cold War (Robert Kupiecki and Marek Menkiszak), Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych, Warszawa, 2020

NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard, National Security Archive, Briefing Book #613, December 12, 2017

”On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians“ (Vladimir Putin), President of Russia, July 12, 2021