22 Oct 2025 Wednesday / 19:10-20:40 / C.104

Lecture by Hall Gardner (American University in Paris)

On October 22, Professor Hall Gardner of the American University in Paris appeared at Corvinus for the eighth installment in the IR Talks series, moderated by Péter Marton. In his lecture, Dr. Gardner argued that, since the early 1990s, American foreign policymakers have consistently failed to consider security frameworks in Eastern Europe that offered opportunities for cooperation between Russia and NATO, and by extension, a path towards long-term peace in the wake of the Cold War. One such possibility to be made more of, as cited by Dr. Gardner, was cooperation in the framework of the Partnership for Peace (PfP) program. Dr. Gardner proposed a reset in US-Russian relations that would prioritize demilitarization in the Baltics, including Kaliningrad, and the reactivation of the PfP program with the goal of increasing interstate cooperation and reducing tensions in the region.

(Summary by Peyton Luke Snyder, IR Master’s student)

IR TALKS is a series of guest and roundtable talks organised by the Department of International Relations at Corvinus University to make sense of the world we live in at a time of turbulent international politics.