Time: 10:00-12:00, Friday, August 18, 2023
Speaker: Dr. Jeffrey D. Sachs (2022 Tang Prize laureate; Director/Professor, Center for Sustainable Development, Earth Institute, Columbia University; President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network)
Chair: Dr. Chien-Yi Lu (Research Fellow of the Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica)
Organizer: European Union Thematic Research Projects, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
Website: https://www.ea.sinica.edu.tw/SeminarList.aspx?t=1
Contact: Miss Lin, +886-2-3789-7222, pimei@gate.sinica.edu.tw

Abstract：
The war is devastating Ukraine. Ukraine has already lost hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians. Not only Ukraine but also Russia, the US, EU and indeed the entire world stand to benefit enormously from an end to the conflict, lifting both the nuclear dread that hangs over the world today and the devastating economic fallout of the war. By recognizing that the question of NATO enlargement is at the center of this war, we understand why U.S. weaponry will not end this war. Russia will escalate as necessary to prevent NATO enlargement to Ukraine. No less an authority than the Chairman of the US Joints Chiefs of Staff, General Mark A. Milley, has urged a negotiated political solution to the conflict, noting that Ukraine’s chance for a military victory, is “not high.” It’s time for the provocations to stop, and for negotiations to restore peace to Ukraine. There are four core issues to negotiate: Ukraine’s sovereignty and security; the fraught issue of NATO enlargement; the fate of Crimea; and the future of the Donbas.