In this episode, former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Ambassador Michael McFaul joins CAA Live! host Ambassador Jim Rosapepe to talk about his academic background in Russian studies and international diplomacy. His first visit to Russia was as a student at Leningrad State University in 1983. Ambassador McFaul recently authored From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin's Russia. He currently serves as the Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution for International Studies at Stanford University.