We are pleased to announce that on Thursday, 11th of June 2015 the former US Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1987-1991) Jack Matlock is giving Fulbright lecture entitled ‘The Ukrainian Crisis: Reflections on Power in Today's World’. Time: Thursday 11 June 2015, 5.15pm-6.15pm Venue: Lecture Theatre G.03, 50 George Square, Edinburgh Further information and booking: www.ed.ac.uk/chss/fulbright-2015 This event is free and open to the public. Ambassador Jack Matlock was U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1987-1991), Special Assistant to the President for National Security (1983-1986), and Ambassador to Czechoslovakia (1981-1983). Since retiring from the Foreign Service in 1991, Matlock has held academic positions at Columbia (1991-1996 and 2007-2012), the Institute for Advanced Study (1996- 2001), Princeton, 2001-2004, Hamilton College (2006 and 2009) and Mount Holyoke College (2007). He is the author of numerous articles on foreign policy and international relations and of the following books: Superpower Illusions: How Myths and False Ideologies Led America Astray--And How to Return to Reality (2010), Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended (2004), Autopsy on an Empire (1995), as well as a handbook to the Russian edition of Stalin’s Collected Works (1955, 2nd edition, 1971). Publication date 03 Sep, 2015
