Q&A: Professor Scott Gehlbach on the War in Ukraine and What Comes Next
May 19, 2025

Scott Gehlbach is the Elise and Jack Lipsey Professor in the Department of Political Science, the Harris School of Public Policy, and the College at the University of Chicago. A scholar of authoritarian and post-authoritarian regimes, much of Gehlbach’s research is motivated by the contemporary and historical experience of Russia and Ukraine.
Last month, we sat down with Professor Gehlbach to discuss the state of the war in Ukraine, what about the conflict has surprised him, and where it goes from here.