This week in DC.

Monday, February 18

The Johns Hopkins University Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
Discussion on "The New Cold War: Putin's Russia and the Threat to the West." [Note: RSVP to AmericanForeignPolicy@jhu.edu]
Participants: Edward Lucas, deputy editor of the international sector and Central and Eastern European correspondent for the Economist; and Michael Mandelbaum, Christian Herter Professor of American foreign policy and director of the SAIS American Foreign Policy Program
Location: SAIS, Rome Building, 1619 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Rome Building Auditorium, Washington, D.C.. 5:30 p.m.

Tuesday, February 19

The Center for National Policy
Discussion on "Grassroots Jihad? Mapping al-Qaeda's Present and Future," with Marc Sageman, author of "Leaderless Jihad." [Note: RSVP online: http://www.cnponline.org]
Location: Center for National Policy, 1 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Third Floor, Suite 333, Washington, D.C.. 12 noon

The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI)
Discussion on "Iranian Influence in the Middle East and Beyond." [Note: Register online: http://www.aei.org/event1670]
Participants: Frederick Kagan, Ali Alfoneh, and Danielle Pletka of AEI; and Kimberly Kagan of the Institute for the Study of War
Location: AEI, 1150 17th St., NW, Wohlstetter Conference Center, 12th Floor, Washington, D.C.. 2 p.m.

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
Discussion on the book, "The New Cold War: Putin's Russia and the Threat of the West." [Note: RSVP to 202-457-8741 or rep@csis.org]
Participants: Edward Lucas, deputy editor of the International Section, Central and Eastern Europe Correspondent at the Economist; Sarah Mendelson, director and senior fellow of the human rights and security initiative at CSIS; Janusz Bugajski, director of the New European Democracies Project and senior fellow of the Europe Project at CSIS; and Andrew Kuchins, director and senior fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Program at CSIS
Location: CSIS, 1800 K St., NW, B-1 Conference Level, Washington, D.C.. 5 p.m.

The Council on Global Terrorism, Georgetown University's Center for Peace and Security Studies and the Woodrow Wilson Center (WWC)
Book discussion on "The Five Front War: The Better Way to Fight Global Jihad," with Daniel Byman, director of the Center for Peace and Security Studies and associate professor at the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. [Note: RSVP to iss.email@wilsoncenter.org with your name, institutional affiliation, address, phone and fax number, and email address.]
Location: WWC, One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, Ronald Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, D.C.. 9 a.m.

Wednesday, February 20

The Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission)
Briefing on the current political events in Russia, the upcoming presidential elections on March 2, as well as Moscow's relations with the international community during President Putin's era and beyond, with Edward Lucas, Central and Eastern Europe correspondent and former Moscow bureau chief for the Economist.
Location: B-318 Rayburn House Office Building. 10 a.m.

The New America Foundation (NAF)
Book discussion on "Leaderless Jihad," which looks at Jihad and the 21st Century. [Note: RSVP to communications@newamerica.net with your name, affiliation and contact information.]
Participants: Marc Sageman, senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and author of "Leaderless Jihad"; and Peter Bergen, senior fellow at NAF and CNN terrorism analyst
Location: NAF, 1630 Connecticut Ave., NW, 7th Floor, Washington, D.C.. 12:15 p.m.

The Johns Hopkins University Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies' (SAIS) Russian and Eurasian Studies
Discussion on "The Credos of Glasnost: Ideals and Ideas that Shaped the 1987-1991 Russian Revolution," with Leon Aron, director of Russian Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. [Note: RSVP to 202-663-5795 or egerasimov@jhu.edu]
Location: SAIS, Rome Building, 1619 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Room 534, Washington, D.C.. 12:30 p.m.

Thursday, February 21

The International Spy Museum
Book discussion on "Comrade J," which discusses an agent working in the United States as a Russian spy from 1997-2000, with author Pete Earley.
Location: International Spy Museum, 800 F St., NW, Washington, D.C.. 12 noon