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<\/a>UCR Provost\/EVC Paul D\u2019Anieri will discuss the crisis in Ukraine in a lecture Oct. 1.<\/p><\/div>\n
RIVERSIDE, Calif. \u2013 UC Riverside Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Paul D\u2019Anieri will discuss \u201cAnarchy in
The lecture will be held from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in the Interdisciplinary Building, Room 1128. The lecture is free and open to the public. Parking permits may be purchased at the kiosk on West Campus Drive at the University Avenue entrance to the campus.<\/p>\n
Since November 2013, Ukraine has moved rapidly from protest to revolution to state collapse to foreign intervention, said D\u2019Anieri, a political scientist whose expertise is in Eastern European and post-Soviet affairs.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can now ask seriously whether a new cold war is emerging, and what that might mean,\u201d he said. \u201cHowever, Ukraine\u2019s experience in 2014 is far from unique. Rather, it brings together a set of dynamics that we see emerging around the world, including the emergence of hybrid democratic-autocratic regimes, the diffusion of protest, the weakness of states, innovation in information warfare, and the erosion of traditional notions of war. Is this the future of world politics?\u201d<\/p>\n
D\u2019Anieri<\/a> joined UCR on July 1, having served previously as dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Florida. He earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in international relations at Michigan State, and a master\u2019s and doctorate in government at Cornell University.<\/p>\n He serves as the chief academic and operating officer for UC Riverside, providing academic leadership to the entire university, managing day-to-day operations of the campus, overseeing resource allocation, and serving as a member of the campus leadership team. In the chancellor\u2019s absence, the provost serves as the chief executive officer.<\/p>\n D\u2019Anieri\u2019s lecture launches the School of Public Policy Seminar Series \u2013 whose speakers will include FAA administrator Michael Huerta on Oct. 17 and former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich on Feb. 10, 2015. It also launches the Center for Ideas and Society\u2019s public programming for the year, highlights of which include a discussion of the future of the Salton Sea, a roundtable on the conflict in the Middle East, and two \u201cDueling Disciplines\u201d events: one contrasting the views of philosophy and neuroscience on consciousness and another contrasting the views of dance and religious studies on yoga.<\/p>\n Anil Deolalikar, dean of the School of Public Policy<\/a>, said the policy seminar series will feature talks by leading researchers and policy-makers on timely and pressing policy challenges facing the region, the nation and the world.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are pleased to kick off our seminar series for academic year 2014-15 with a talk by UCR\u2019s new provost\/EVC, Paul D\u2019Anieri, on how the current anarchy and unrest in Ukraine represents post-Cold War politics and hot it is likely to affect the United States,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n