The expression “reality check” entered the geopolitical vocabulary from the field of psychiatry and it still carries some of its maddening ambiguity. What is reality to one nation, is a total distortion to another or a complete horror to a third. Is the international system still capable of sane and respectful conversation about what is actually going on in the world? To discuss this, Oksana is joined by Hall Gardner, Professor Emeritus, in the Department of History and Politics at the American University of Paris.
