Pascal Boniface

Pascal Boniface is the founding director of the French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs – IRIS, based in Paris. He is the Director of the quarterly journal “La Revue internationale et stratégique” (International and strategic review) since 1991, and the Editor of “L’Année stratégique” (Strategic Yearbook) since 1985. 

Zoltán Koskovics

Zoltán Koskovics directs the Geopolitical Unit at the Center for Fundamental Rights in Budapest, Hungary. His area of study covers the geopolitical crisis of the 21st century, the war in Ukraine, US and Russian foreign and domestic policy, great power competition, conflicts, weapons of mass destruction proliferation, and arms control.

Zachary Paikin 

Zachary Paikin is deputy director of the Better Order Project and research fellow in the Grand Strategy Program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He is also senior fellow at the Institute for Peace & Diplomacy (IPD), a Canadian international affairs think tank. He was previously a researcher at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS).

Anatol Lieven (Moderator)

Anatol Lieven is the director of the Eurasia Program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He was formerly a professor at Georgetown University in Qatar and in the War Studies Department of King’s College London. From 1985 to 1998, Lieven worked as a journalist in South Asia, the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.