About this Event
Fazle Chowdhury discusses his book of essays on issues in and surrounding Ukraine.
About Why Ukraine Matters:
The 24 February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine is part of a long Russian siege and occupation that began since the 2004 November Orange Revolution. These essays are based on Fazle Chowdhury’s analysis reflecting his chilling observances.
The threat of war had been looming since March 2021 as Russia began deploying troops along the Ukrainian border, including in Belarus, in the breakaway Moldovan region of Transnistria and occupied Crimea. Diplomacy looked to be the only instrument for peace, but met by a "Chamberlain-eques" reaction Europe's heavyweights; France, Germany and Italy, have taken the cautionary peacemaker role between Kremlin and Washington, while Kyiv’s sovereignty remains threatened and makes the other Baltic States nervous. The conflict is centered on NATO's eastward expansion, which Russia considers a betrayal of the West after the fall of the Soviet Union. Is it a Kremlin maneuver to weaken the European Union and NATO through Ukraine?
Fazle Chowdhury has been following Ukraine’s crisis since 2004. A critic of the European Union, NATO, and in his sequence of acerbic explanations have described the roots of Ukraine’s present circumstances inflicted from its inception. Why Ukraine Matters is an analysis surrounding the history and geopolitics of Ukraine that explains the present predicament.
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Fazle Chowdhury studied at Northeastern University and at the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University. He has written several op-eds connected to Europe and the Middle East. He is a former contributor to Lisbon-based Expresso Newspaper, a fellow at the Global Policy Institute, an agile management consultant and currently spends his time between Montreal and Washington D.C.
Chowdhury is the author of seven books. His first book Promises of Betrayals: The History That Shaped the Iranian Shia Clerics Kindle Edition won the 2018 Literary Titan Award and his critically acclaimed novel: Never Among Equals came second in the 2021 Reader's Favorite Choice Award for historical fiction.
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