A global policy scholar will discuss the relationship between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin as well as Russia’s policies towards the United States during a lecture on Monday, April 10. 

The talk, “Trump-Putin and the U.S.-Russian Relationship: Strategic Interests, Priorities, and the World Order,” will take place at 6 p.m. in the Darragh Center Auditorium at the Main Library, 100 Rock St., in Little Rock.

Dr. Sharyl Cross, director of the Kozmetsky Center at St. Edward’s University in Austin and global policy scholar at the Kennan Institute Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., will lead the talk on U.S.-Russian relationships.

Cross is a former distinguished professor of political science at the U.S. Air Force Academy and a resident senior Fulbright scholar in Moscow serving on the faculty of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation and Institute of USA and Canada Studies in the Russian Academy of Sciences.

She earned a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California-Los Angeles and was a resident fellowship scholar and consultant at the RAND Corp. She is completing her next book, “China, Russia, and Twenty First Century Global Geopolitics.”

The event, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the UA Little Rock School of Public Affairs.

This event is part of the “Kennan Conversations” program of the Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute. The program brings top experts on Russia and the region to cities across the United States so that local audiences have the opportunity to listen to and engage with them and learn more about this increasingly important part of the world.