Dr. Evelyn Farkas

Executive director, McCain Institute; former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense

Guest

Executive director of the McCain Institute. Senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund. From 2012-2015 she served as deputy assistant secretary for Russia/Ukraine/Eurasia at the US Department of Defense.

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