Michael Kimmage
Michael Kimmage has wide-ranging academic, policy, and think tank experience. His expertise is on the former Soviet Union, the transatlantic relationship, and the history of U.S. foreign policy. His particular area of focus is the U.S.-Russian relationship. Kimmage is a professor at the Catholic University of America, where he is the chair of the history department. He is the author of The Conservative Turn: Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers and the Lessons of Anti-Communism, published by Harvard University Press in 2009; and The Abandonment of the West: The History of an Idea in American Foreign Policy, published by Basic Books in 2020. From 2014 to 2016, Kimmage served on the Secretary of State's Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State, where he held the Russia/Ukraine portfolio. He is a frequent contributor to Foreign Affairs, the New Republic, the National Interest, Internationale Politik and War on the Rocks. Kimmage is chair of the advisory board at the Wilson Center's Kennan Institute, and he serves on the advisory board of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik).
Areas of Expertise
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Putin the Ideologue
Maria Snegovaya, Michael Kimmage, and Jade McGlynn in Foreign Affairs — November 16, 2023
The Beginning of the End for Putin?
Michael Kimmage in Foreign Affairs — June 27, 2023
The Perils of Premature Negotiation Over Ukraine
Michael Kimmage in The Wall Street Journal — March 2, 2023
Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: One Year Later
Michael Kimmage in Foreign Affairs — March 2, 2023
The Perils of Premature Negotiation Over Ukraine
Michael Kimmage in The Wall Street Journal — March 2, 2023
In unlikely wartime role, Zelenskyy gives Ukrainians hope
Michael Kimmage in Associated Press — February 21, 2023
Wartime Putinism
Michael Kimmage in Foreign Affairs — January 13, 2023
Putin’s Last Stand
Michael Kimmage in Foreign Affairs — December 20, 2022
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POSTPONED: The War in Ukraine Two Years On
Event — February 13, 2024
Aid to Ukraine and the Future of the War with Michael Kofman
Podcast Episode by Max Bergmann, Maria Snegovaya, and Michael Kimmage — January 11, 2024
Aid to Ukraine and the Future of the War with Michael Kofman
Event — December 20, 2023
Russia and the Global South with Hanna Notte
Event — October 24, 2023
Book Talk: "Russia's War" with Jade McGlynn
Event — May 25, 2023
The War in Ukraine One Year On
Event — February 15, 2023