Program Details

Guided Discussion: The Future of NATO and Russia’s Collective Security Treaty Organization

Instructor
Robert G. Rabil
FGD10181

Course Description

After a review of NATO’s military support of Ukraine, Dr. Rabil and attendees will explore Russia’s politics of war in Ukraine and whether or not the military alliance of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, which includes Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan, will support this war and/or counteract NATO’s policies and actions within and beyond Ukraine. Space is limited.

About the Instructor

  • Robert G. Rabil, Ph.D., is an internationally renowned scholar. His books have been highly commended and reviewed by major academic journals. He is considered one of the leading experts on Salafism, radical Islam, and U.S.-Arab-Israeli relations. He earned doctoral degree in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University. In May 2012, he was conferred with an honorary doctoral degree in humanities from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts and in 2022 he won the FAU Scholar of the Year award. He is a professor of political science at Florida Atlantic University.

    Lifelong Learning Professorship of Current Affairs, 2018-19
    Lifelong Learning Professorship of Current Affairs, 2012-13
    Recipient of the 2008 Excellence in Teaching Award