Podcast appearances and mentions of David J Kramer

William J. Burns, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, was the keynote speaker at the Bush Center's 2024 Forum on Leadership. Burns was joined by David J. Kramer, Executive Director of the Bush Institute, for a conversation on how the CIA assesses challenges facing the United States from Russia and China to the Middle East. Related: 2024 Forum on Leadership

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Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, joined David J. Kramer, Executive Director of the Bush Institute, to discuss how PEPFAR's successful program model can inform U.S. engagement in global health and development more broadly.Related: PEPFAR at 20 eventRead: A report series on lessons learned from PEPFAR's successRead: Building on PEPFAR's success: Is a win for U.S. foreign policyRead: Foreign aid successes: MCC and PEPFAR as models for engagement

Executive Director of the Bush Institute David J. Kramer is one of the world's foremost experts on the region. We catch up with him to get his take on the largest war in Europe since World War II, on Vladimir Putin, and why it's so important for the United States to continue to support the Ukrainian people.RelatedBush Institute Policy Recommendation -- Supporting Ukraine: Why It Is Vital to U.S. National Security InterestAll Bush Institute 2023 Policy Briefs

On November 16, President Bush and David J. Kramer, Executive Director of the Bush Institute, sat down at The Struggle for Freedom conference hosted by the Bush Institute in partnership with Freedom House and the National Endowment for Democracy. They discussed the importance of U.S. support for democracy and freedom around the world, especially in places like Ukraine. 

Olga and Mo are joined again by David Kramer as they consider the wider security and humanitarian implications should Russia's war of aggression continue and expand to other areas of the region, including Moldova, Transnistria, and Georgia. David J. Kramer is the Bradford M. Freeman managing director for global policy at the George W. Bush Institute and served as assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor in the George W. Bush administration. AG1 Sponsor Promo: https://athleticgreens.com/kremlinfile  Recommended articles from David Kramer:  https://www.thebulwark.com/putin-is-failing-in-ukraine-but-winning-in-georgia/  https://www.bushcenter.org/catalyst/ukraine/kramer-never-underestimate-ukrainians.html https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/defeating-putin-in-ukraine-is-vital-to-the-future-of-democracy/  https://thedispatch.com/p/dont-let-lukashenko-off-the-hook?s=r 

The world is watching as Russia continues to amass a large military presence on the border with Ukraine. David J. Kramer, managing director of global policy at the George W. Bush Institute, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss Russia's motives, the Western response to the growing conflict, and if there will be war in Europe – potentially the largest invasion since World War II.

What does the evolving political situation in Belarus mean for U.S. and European interests? Brian Whitmore and David Kramer join Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Jim Townsend to discuss how President Lukashenko has cracked down on civil society during the last year as well as the implications of tightening relations between Minsk and Moscow. Brian Whitmore is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center, an Assistant Professor of Practice at the University of Texas-Arlington's McDowell Center for Global Studies, and host of The Power Vertical Podcast. David J. Kramer is Senior Fellow in the Vaclav Havel Program for Human Rights & Diplomacy and Director for European and Eurasian Studies at Florida International University's Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs. Previously, Kramer served as president of Freedom House, and he has also worked at the McCain Institute and the German Marshall Fund of the United States.

Rose Gottemoeller and David J. Kramer join Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Jim Townsend to discuss priorities and approaches to the new administration’s diplomacy with Moscow. Gottemoeller is a former Deputy Secretary General of NATO, former U.S. Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, and a chief negotiator of the New START treaty. Kramer is a senior fellow at Florida International University’s School of International and Public Affairs, and formerly served as president of Freedom House and in several senior roles in the State Department.

In this episode of Russian Roulette, Heather sits down with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania, Linas Linkevičius, and David J. Kramer, Senior Fellow in the Václav Havel Program for Human Rights and Diplomacy at the Florida International University to discuss the current situation in Belarus, the implications of the Lukashenko regime’s brutal response to peaceful protests, the prospect for future free and fair elections, the role of Russia in the crisis and the policy responses from the E.U and U.S. The Minister’s bio can be found here: https://www.urm.lt/default/en/officials/ministras You can follow him on Twitter: @LinkeviciusL   David Kramer’s bio is here: https://sipa.fiu.edu/people/senior-fellows/profiles/davidj.kramer.html Stay safe and healthy.

Chris, Melanie, and Zack discuss the renewed debate over the present and future of U.S.-Russian relations. Two competing open letters make the case for or against the status quo, which is increasingly characterized by deep suspicion and rising tension. Is Vladimir Putin to blame? Or do the roots of U.S.-Russian enmity run deeper? Are constructive diplomatic relations impossible so long as Putin is in charge? Or should U.S. policymakers look past Putin’s many offenses in the interest of reducing the risk of conflict? The crew give a special attaboy to Brent Scowcroft, who died earlier this month. Scowcroft was national security advisor to two U.S. presidents and counselor to at least four others. Zack also praises the protesters in Belarus and Melanie gives a special shout out to Polish filmmaker Agniezska Holland for “Mr. Jones,” a film about a young journalist who blew the lid off the Holodomor, the manmade famine in Ukraine which killed millions in the early 1930s.   Links Rose Gottemoeller, Thomas Graham, Fiona Hill, et al, “It’s Time to Rethink Our Russia Policy,” POLITICO, August 5, 2020 David J. Kramer, et al, “No, Now Is Not the Time for Another Russia Reset,” POLITICO, August 11, 2020 Lydia Saad, “Majority of Americans Now Consider Russia a Critical Threat,” Gallup, February 27, 2019 Adam Taylor, “More Russians Are Sure of the U.S. Meddling in Their Politics than the Other Way Around, Poll Finds,” Washington Post, February 7, 2018 Frederick Kempe and Jeffrey Lightfoot, “The Legacy Brent Scowcroft Leaves Behind,” Atlantic Council, August 7, 2020 Jacob Heilbrunn, “A Tribute to Brent Scowcroft,” The National Interest, August 7, 2020 Bartholomew Sparrow and Doyle Hodges, “Brent Scowcroft and the Call of National Security,” Horns of a Dilemma, August 14, 2020 Josh Rudolph and Thomas Morley, "Covert Foreign Money: Financial Loopholes Exploited by Authoritarians to Fund Political Interference in Democracies," Alliance for Securing Democracy, 2020 Scott Neuman, "Belarus Factory Workers Walk Out, Joining Mass Protests Calling for President to Quit," National Public Radio, August 17, 2020 Robert M. Gates, "The Scowcroft Model," Foreign Affairs, August 13, 2020,  Elizabeth Rosenberg and Jordan Tama, "Strengthening the Economic Arsenal," Center for a New American Security, December 16, 2019 Ryan Goodman and Asha Rangappa, "How Sen. Ron Johnson's Investigation Became an Enabler of Russian Disinformation: Part I," Just Security, August 11, 2020

David J. Kramer, Senior Fellow at the Vaclev Havel Program on Human Rights and Diplomacy at Florida International University, formerly Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor and senior fellow at the McCain Institute for International Leadership, talks about the themes in his new book: "Back to Containment: Dealing With Putin's Regime." Kramer asserts that Vladimir Putin is a paranoid, authoritarian leader who oversees one of the most corrupt regimes in the world