6:45 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 1 Bond Hall, Room 165, The Citadel. Free and open to the public.

David Bakradze, the Georgian Ambassador to the U.S., will have an open discussion with students, faculty and staff of The Citadel, the College of Charleston and members of the Charleston community during a visit to The Citadel campus on Thursday, Nov. 1.

The discussion, “The New Cold War: Democracy v. Authoritarianism in the Post-Soviet Era,” is free and open to the public. Bakradze will invite the audience to weigh in on questions such as, “How serious is the threat posed by resurgent authoritarianism across the globe?” and “What must the world’s democracies do to compete successfully in the years ahead?”

Before he was the Ambassador to the U.S., Bakradze served as Georgia’s Ambassador to Greece, Counselor of the Permanent Mission to the United Nations and State Minister on European and Euro-Atlantic Integration. His visit is sponsored by the International Politics and Military Affairs and Intelligence and Security Studies programs in The Citadel School of Humanities and Social Sciences.