my name is marlene lawal. i'm the former director of the institute and currently the director of the illiberalism studies program. in this event today, we will be discussing the geopolitics of aid and how chinese, russian and american covid 19 assistance developed. and as you can guess, it's a very timely topic given the current reorganization and transformation in of us foreign assistance and strategy under the new administration. i will speak to my millet. shiva is professor of strategy at national defense university here in washington, d.c. she the author of multiple books on the former soviet union and articles she has been engaging with broader audience in the policy world for several years. and her latest book is called entitled covi. 19 humanitarianism geopolitical logics of chinese, russian and american assistance. it's really a great book. you can see here that she wrote with the colleagues that is looking at how assistant rice should be interpreted as part of a geopolitical discourse and as a space f

my name is marlene lawal. i'm the former director of the inste