17 October—Donald Bowser

Don Bowser is a law enforcement and security expert with over twenty-five years of experience in governance issues, mainly in transition and conflict countries. He has three decades of experience in the post-Soviet space with the bulk of it in Ukraine including most of the last ten years. Since mid-2022, Don has been engaged as founder of the Support to Ukraine Recovery Initiative, an organization that delivers nonlethal military assistance to the military forces in Ukraine. He is currently working on several projects in Ukraine, including evaluating foreign assistance. In this episode, we discuss Russia’s hybrid war in Europe, Ukraine’s corruption problem, foreign volunteers in Ukraine, and more!