'Now', Ep. 4: Daniel Druckman and Peter Wallensteen on United States-Russian Summitry

In this ‘Now’ podcast we get a chance to extend the examination of summits with two very eminent peace and conflict academics. Daniel Druckman and Peter Wallensteen prepared an article for Global Summitry that we published in Volume 2, Issue 2, entitled “Summit Meetings: Good or Bad for Peace?” The article sought to understand whether summit meetings between contending states have an impact on their relations that relate to war or conflict outcomes. The analysis and conclusions were drawn from a new data set that these scholars had created on summits between the Soviet Union, now Russia, and the United States. The data set covered summits between these two great powers that covered the period from 1943 to 2014. We collectively decided that with the recent G20 Leaders’ Summit in Hamburg it was a most opportune moment to examine the summit relationship historically and ‘in the moment’. We do hope you enjoy this wide-ranging examination of Russian and American summits from Roosevelt and Stalin to Trump and Putin.