Core Members
Professor, Director of the Center for Governance and Markets, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
Affiliation
University of Pittsburgh
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Expertise
Central Asia, Afghanistan, Political Economy and Development, Governance, Post-Conflict Recovery and Reconstruction, Geopolitics of Continental Eurasia
Theodore Romanoff Assistant Professor of Russian Studies; Assistant Professor of International and Area Studies
Affiliation
University of Oklahoma
Expertise
Comparative Politics, Public Opinion, Political Communication in Non-Democracies, Russian and Post-Soviet Regional Politics
Teaching Fellow; Political Scientist
Affiliation
OSCE Academy in Bishkek; Crossroads Central Asia
Expertise
Political Institutions and Processes, Central Asian Politics
Research Professor, Public Policy and Governance
Affiliation
Kyiv School of Economics
Expertise
Democratization, Authoritarian Regimes, Contentious Politics, Good Governance
Postdoctoral Fellow
Affiliation
Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
Links
Expertise
Caspian Energy, Azerbaijan, Caucasus, Political Institutions, Public Policy, Governance of Natural Resources
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
Affiliation
Oklahoma State University
Expertise
Non-Democratic Politics, Electoral Manipulation, Post-Communist Politics, Protest
Assistant Professor of Geography
Affiliation
University of Arkansas
Expertise
National Minorities, Religion, Political violence, Russia, Caucasus
Founding Director, Caucasus Institute
Affiliation
Caucasus Institute, Armenia
Links
Expertise
Ethnopolitical Conflicts, Post-Communist Transformations, Post-Soviet Institutions, Elites and Identities, Media Development, Migration, Sovereignty, Governance
Professor of Sociology
Affiliation
Pitzer College
Links
Expertise
Post-Soviet Central Asia, Public Opinion, Survey Research
Associate Professor of Organizational Studies
Affiliation
Pitzer College
Links
Expertise
Comparative Political Organizations and Institutions, Authoritarianism, Democratization, Post-Soviet Politics and Society
Research Fellow
Affiliation
International Centre for Defence and Security
Expertise
Grand Strategy, Revisionism, Territorial Autonomy, Federalism, Paradiplomacy, Russia, North Caucasus, Central Asia
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Associate Professor, Department of Asian and African Studies; Senior Expert, ASEAN Centre
Affiliation
Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)
Links
Expertise
International Relations in Asia, Security in the Asia-Pacific Region, Regional Transformations in Asia, Russian Foreign Policy in East Asia
Assistant Professor, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs
Affiliation
Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Expertise
Theory of International Relations, China, Russia, Eurasia
Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer; Senior Analyst; Associate Professor
Affiliation
Friedrich Schiller University Jena; Georgian Institute of Politics; Ilia State University
Expertise
Theories of International Relations, Foreign Policy Analysis, Global Governance
Professor, Department of Regional and Analytical Studies
Affiliation
College of Security Affairs, National Defense University
Expertise
Violence, Mobilization and Security Institutions in Europe, Central Asia, India, and Mexico
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Affiliation
Stetson University
Links
Expertise
Comparative Politics, Comparative Foreign Policy, Authoritarianism, Environmental Politics, State-Society Relations, Civil Society and Philanthropy, Russia, China
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences
Affiliation
University of Ottawa
Expertise
Insurgency, Caucasus, Russia, foreign fighters, Terrorism and Counterterrorism, Civil Wars
Senior Research Fellow; Political Analyst
Affiliation
Russia Political Insight; Liberal Mission Foundation; Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy; Levada Center
Expertise
Russian Intellectual and Cultural History, Political Development, Post-Soviet History
Associate Professor; Leading Research Fellow
Affiliation
Higher School of Economics (HSE), St. Petersburg Branch
Expertise
Sociology, Qualitative Analysis, Culture, Communication, Ethnicity, New Media, Identity, Public Opinion, Russia, Political Discourses
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Affiliation
Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
Expertise
Immigration, Nationalism, Informal Politics and Administration, Russia, Kazakhstan
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations
Affiliation
Nazarbayev University
Expertise
Comparative Politics, New Institutionalism, Political Institutions, Political Participation, Social Movements, Contentious Politics, Public Spheres
Assistant Professor in Political Science
Affiliation
The University of Kansas
Expertise
Comparative Politics, Media, Propaganda, Disinformation, Trust, Communist Legacies, Russia, Post-Soviet States
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Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations
Affiliation
Knox College
Links
Expertise
Authoritarianism, Nationalism, Democratization, Russian and East European Politics, Research Methods, International Organizations, Comparative Politics, International Relations
Assistant Professor; Co-founder, Anti-Corruption Data Collective; Associate Director, PONARS Eurasia
Affiliation
The George Washington University
Expertise
Political Economy, Business-Government Relations, Post-Soviet Politics, Corruption, Authoritarianism, Clientelism
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and International Affairs & School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; Visiting Scholar
Affiliation
Higher School of Economics; University of Helsinki
Expertise
Social Policy in Post-Soviet Countries, Institutional Change in Russia, Russian Non-Profit Organizations