
Michael McFaul: Autocrats vs Democrats and the New Global Order
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The international order in which most of us grew up is over, and a new cold war is setting in. That’s the growing consensus of people adjusting to the aggressive rise of China, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the reelection of President Donald Trump amid the growth of right-wing populist movements around the world. Michael McFaul says America’s future depends on how successfully it deals with this new global order.
McFaul, a former U.S. ambassador to Russia and an international affairs analyst for NBC News, says new thinking is required. The new cold war isn’t the same as the old U.S.–Soviet Cold War. He argues in his new book, Autocrats vs. Democrats: China, Russia, America, and the New Global Disorder, that we should not underestimate the disruptive ambitions of Russia, nor should we overestimate China’s capabilities, and that the shift here at home toward isolationism and autocracy weaken America’s position in the world.
Join us to hear McFaul draw from historical analysis and a forward-looking perspective to craft a new grand strategy for the United States in the challenging new age of global disorder.
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Commonwealth Club World Affairs of California
110 The Embarcadero
Taube Family Auditorium
San Francisco, CA 94105
United States

Michael McFaul
Former U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation, Director, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University; Author. Autocrats vs Democrats: China, Russia, America, and the New Global Disorder

In conversation with Dr. Gloria Duffy
Co-president and Co-CEO, Commonwealth Club World Affairs of California
5:30 p.m. doors open & check-in
6–7 p.m. program
7 p.m. book signing
(all times Pacific Time)
COST
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In person:
$25
$60 with a book
Free for Leadership Circle members and students (without a book)
Online:
$10
$45 with a book
Free for Leadership Circle members and students (without a book)