The Power Vertical Podcast by Brian Whitmore

The Charles T. McDowell Center for Global Studies and Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center

The Power Vertical Podcast by Brian Whitmore covers emerging and developing trends in Russian politics, shining a spotlight on the high-stakes power struggles, machinations, and clashing interests that shape Kremlin policy today. Brian Whitmore is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council Eurasia Center and Russia and Eurasia Specialist and Assistant Professor of Practice at the Charles T. McDowell Center for Global Studies at The University of Texas at Arlington.

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The Power Vertical Podcast by Brian Whitmore

Episodes (224)

Fri Feb 20th WAR BY OTHER MEANS - THE KREMLIN'S NEGOTIATING PLAYBOOK
Fri Feb 13th RUSSIA AND THE EMERGING WORLD ORDER
Fri Feb 6th THE DARK ART OF GEOPOLITICAL EXTORTION

The Power Vertical Podcast by Brian Whitmore

Feb 20, 2026
53¼ minutes
49 MB

On The Power Vertical Podcast this week, host Brian Whitmore speaks with two veteran diplomats, former U.S. State Department official Donald Jensen, who is currently an an adjunct professor in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University and an adjunct fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies; and Osmolovska, a 15-year veteran of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry who now serves as the head of GLOBSEC's Kyiv office. They are the co-authors of an important, exhaustively researched, and very timely report, "Adversary at the Table: Negotiating with Putin's Russia," which was released this week...

The Power Vertical Podcast by Brian Whitmore

WAR BY OTHER MEANS - THE KREMLIN'S NEGOTIATING PLAYBOOK

The Charles T. McDowell Center for Global Studies and Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center

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