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Associate Professor, Director of the International Development Studies Program

Affiliation

The George Washington University

Expertise

Development, Media, Culture and Politics, Indigenous Rights, Central Asia, former Soviet Union, Uyghurs, China
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Professor, Head of the Department of Political Theory

Affiliation

Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

Expertise

U.S.-Russian Relations, Security Studies, Institutions, Ethnopolitical Conflicts
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Associate Professor, Department of Political Science

Affiliation

University of Toronto

Expertise

Central Asia, Civil Society, Islam, Comparative Politics
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Independent Researcher, Central Asia/Eurasia

Affiliation

Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan (formerly)

Expertise

Identity, Ethnicity, Nationality, Religion, Gender, Community Organization
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Research Fellow

Affiliation

Institute for Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences, Armenia

Expertise

Ethnographic Method, Economic Anthropology, Gender Studies, Russia, Caucasus, Migration
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Professor of Russian Politics and Acting Director of Russia Institute

Affiliation

King’s Russia Institute, King's College London

Expertise

Russia, Politics, Society, Democratization, Federalism
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Associate Professor, Department of Political Science

Affiliation

Tufts University

Expertise

Russia, Ukraine, Migration, Refugees, State-Building, Citizenship, International Institutions, Democratization
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Senior Fellow

Affiliation

Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non‑Proliferation, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey

Expertise

Russian-U.S. Relations, Nuclear Command and Control, Communications and Intelligence, Missile Systems, Kosovo, NATO
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John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor

Affiliation

Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago

Expertise

Political Economics, Development, Economic Theory, Russia, Property Rights
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Lead Researcher, Department of International Politics; Head, Peace and Conflict Studies

Affiliation

Institute of World Economy & International Relations (IMEMO), Moscow

Expertise

Armed Conflicts, Insurgencies, Terrorism, Violent Networks, Political Economy of Conflicts, Violence and Ideology, Peacebuilding
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Faculty Affiliate, Stanford King Center on Global Development; Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute (FSI)

Affiliation

Stanford University

Expertise

Comparative State Building and Effective Governance, Political Economy of Developing Countries, Russian Domestic and International politics, Canadian Politics
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Sam Nunn Professor and Chair in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs

Affiliation

Georgia Institute of Technology

Expertise

Defense Transformation, Emerging Technology & International Security, Geopolitics of Energy, Illicit Nuclear Trafficking, International Security Policy, Nuclear & Nonproliferation

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Executive Director

Affiliation

International Renaissance Foundation (Kyiv)

Expertise

Ukraine, EU, NATO, Security
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Professor, Political Science; Director, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs

Affiliation

Syracuse University

Expertise

Russia, Politics, Military, Law Enforcement, Security Studies
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Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations

Affiliation

Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan

Expertise

Ukraine, Georgia, Kazakhstan, International Law, Post-Communist Judicial Politics, Crime
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Professor, Department of Political Science

Affiliation

Virginia Commonwealth University

Expertise

Russia, Public Health, Demographics
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Dean and Associate Professor, School of Public and International Affairs

Affiliation

ADA University, Baku

Expertise

Public Policy of Post-Soviet Republics, Democracy and Governance, Urban Development and Planning
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Associate Professor, Department of Political Science

Affiliation

University of Toronto

Expertise

Politics, Government, Ukraine, Democratic Transitions, Hybrid and Competitive Authoritarianism
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Professor, Political Science and Law; Senior Research Scholar

Affiliation

Montclair State University; Columbia University

Expertise

China, Central Asia, Energy, Environment, Migration, Public Health
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Professor of International Relations, Dean of College of Administrative Sciences and Economics, Director of Graduate School of Business

Affiliation

Koç University, Istanbul

Expertise

International Relations and Strategy, International Affairs of Eurasia and the Middle East, Foreign Policy Analysis, Energy and Natural Resource Politics, Sustainable Development, Turkish Foreign Policy, International Conflict and Cooperation, European Security and Foreign Policy
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Professor of International Relations; Politics Fellow

Affiliation

Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, UK

Expertise

East-West Relations, Historical Sociology and IR, Modernity and Sovereignty, Rising and Declining Powers, Turkish Politics, International History of Eurasia
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Associate Research Professor

Affiliation

Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University

Expertise

Ethnic Politics, Politics of Post-Soviet Countries, Nationalism, Islam, and Conflict Resolution
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Professor of Political Science

Affiliation

Rowan University

Expertise

State Failure, Social Movements, Russia, Central Asia
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Associate Professor, Department of International Business

Affiliation

University of South Carolina

Expertise

Political Economy and Risk, Non-Market Strategies, Economic Development, Property Rights, Corporate Governance, Stakeholder Engagement
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Senior Research Fellow

Affiliation

Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

Expertise

EU Eastern Neighborhood, Russian Policy in the Post-Soviet Space, Domestic and Foreign Policies of Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences

Affiliation

University of Ottawa

Expertise

Insurgency, Caucasus, Russia, foreign fighters, Terrorism and Counterterrorism, Civil Wars
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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
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Professor of Government

Affiliation

Wesleyan University

Expertise

Contemporary Russian Politics and Political Economy, Nationalism
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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
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Director, Russia Matters Project; Assistant Director, U.S.-Russia Initiative to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism

Affiliation

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University

Expertise

Russia, International Relations, International Security, Space Security, Terrorism & Counterterrorism, Military Intervention, Nuclear Programs & Terrorism
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Assistant Professor of Political Science

Affiliation

Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan

Expertise

Immigration, Nationalism, Informal Politics and Administration, Russia, Kazakhstan
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Associate Professor, Department of Political Science

Affiliation

Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg branch

Expertise

Nationalism, Ethnicity, Elections and Electoral Behavior, Theory of Modernization
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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
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Walsh School of Foreign Service; Fellow, Illiberalism Studies Program

Affiliation

Georgetown University; George Washington University

Expertise

Democratic Backsliding, Populist Actors (in East Central Europe), Russian Domestic and Foreign Policy, Russian-Ukrainian Conflict
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Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations

Affiliation

Knox College

Expertise

Authoritarianism, Nationalism, Democratization, Russian and East European Politics, Research Methods, International Organizations, Comparative Politics, International Relations
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Professor

Affiliation

The University of British Columbia

Expertise

Climate and Environmental Politics, Comparative Politics, Democratic Theory and Practice, Europe, Gender in Politics, International Relations, International Organizations
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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
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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
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Vice Rector, International Relations Department

Affiliation

St. Petersburg State University

Expertise

EU, Economics, Russian Foreign policy, International Political Economy
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Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science

Affiliation

University of Notre Dame

Expertise

Comparative and International Political Economy, Post-Soviet Transitions (Russia in particular), Food and Agricultural Systems
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Visiting Professor

Affiliation

Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

Expertise

Nationalism, Diversity and Inequality, Russian Federation, Research Design and Methodology

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Assistant Professor

Affiliation

University of Michigan

Expertise

International Security, Political Communication, Insurgency/Counterinsurgency, Policy Diffusion, Civil-Military Relations, Civil Conflict, Russian and Eurasian Politics
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Professor of Political Science

Affiliation

San Diego State University

Expertise

Ukraine, Russia, Caucasus, Politics, Interstate and Internal Wars, Nationalism, Ethnic Relations, Immigration in Russia/Eurasia
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Podlich Family Professor of Government and George R. Roberts Fellow, Government Department

Affiliation

Claremont McKenna College

Expertise

Political Economy, Post-Communist Transitions, Russian Politics, West and East European Politics
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Associate Professor of Political Science

Affiliation

Muskingum University

Expertise

Comparative Politics, International Relations, Nationalism, Cossack Movements, Ethnic Violence, Hate Crimes
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Visiting Scholar

Affiliation

Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University

Expertise

Russia-EU Relations, Russian Politics, Russian Foreign Policy, Comparative Federalism and Regionalism
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Associate Professor, Department of International Relations

Affiliation

Mechnikov National University, Odessa; Tufts University

Expertise

Ukraine, Transatlantic Relations, EU
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science

Affiliation

Binghamton University, State University of New York (SUNY)

Expertise

Comparative Federalism, Intergovernmental Relations, European Politics, European Union Institutions, Democratic Transitions, East-Central European and Post-Soviet Politics
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Professor of Sociology

Affiliation

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Expertise

Sociology, Statistics, Demography, Migration, Contemporary Russian Society
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Associate Professor of Political Science

Affiliation

University of Notre Dame

Expertise

Russia, Institutions, Public Health, Climate Change, Mass Political Behavior, Survey Research
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Professor of Political Science; Director of the Jean Monnet Centre Montréal

Affiliation

McGill University, Montreal

Expertise

Post-Communist Financial systems, Russian and Eastern European Politics, Institutionalist Theories, Identity, International Political Economy
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Director; Professor of Political Science

Affiliation

Georgian Institute of Politics; Tbilisi State University

Expertise

Caucasus, Russia, Turkey, EU, Security, Politics
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Associate Professor of Political Science

Affiliation

Baylor University

Expertise

Ukraine, Institutions, Civil Society, Conflict Resolution, Political Science, Historical Institutionalism, Post-Socialist Societies
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Professor and Head Research Fellow

Affiliation

Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, National Academy of Science of Ukraine; Ukrainian Free University; Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University

Expertise

Language Politics, Memory, Nationalism, Media, Discourse, Ukraine
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Professor; Political Sciences Department; Director, Department Development Partnership Program

Affiliation

European University at St. Petersburg (EUSP)

Expertise

History, U.S.-Russian Relations & Policy, Education
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Professor

Affiliation

The London School of Economics and Political Science

Expertise

Regionalism, Federalism, Governance, Russia, India, China, Legacies of Colonialism and Empire, Democratization
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Professor of Regional Political Studies

Affiliation

Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu, Estonia

Expertise

Russian Foreign and Security Policies, EU-Russian Relations, Foreign Policy Discourses, Regionalism and Federalism, Sport Mega events
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Associate Professor, Schar School of Policy and Government

Affiliation

George Mason University

Expertise

Central Asia, Civil Society, Islam, Comparative Politics, Central Asian Regime Change, Political Islam, Information Communication Technology
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Professor, Department of Political Science

Affiliation

Case Western Reserve University

Expertise

Democratization, Political Economy, Local Politics, Corruption, Political Legitimacy, Postcommunist Politics, Russia, Central Asia
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Professor of National Security Strategy

Affiliation

National War College, National Defense University

Expertise

Russia, Central Asia, Georgia, Foreign Policy, Critical Geopolitics, Counter Terrorism, Human Rights, Democracy Promotion
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Research Professor of International Affairs, IERES; Director of Research, Sustainable GW

Affiliation

The George Washington University

Expertise

Russia, Energy, Corruption, Institutions, Arctic
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Professor of Political Science

Affiliation

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Expertise

Russian Politics, Labor, Hybrid and Authoritarian Regimes, Civil Society, EU
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Associate Professor, International Relations, Political Science, and Sociology; Head of OdCNP

Affiliation

Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University, Ukraine

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Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University (Bio 1) (Bio 2)

Expertise

Ukraine, Russia, Politics, Military
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Professor, Political Science

Affiliation

Indiana University

Expertise

Russia, Eurasia, Elections, Political Parties and Party Systems, Power Centers
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Associate Professor

Affiliation

University of Colorado Boulder

Expertise

Business-State Relations, Comparative Politics, Economic Reform, Pension Reform, Social Policy, Central Asia, Russia
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Professor of Practice

Affiliation

University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia

Expertise

International Security, Negotiation Theory, Russian Foreign Policy, Russia’s Relations with Neighboring States, Relations with EU and the US
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Professor, Department of Russian and Slavic Studies; Co-director, NYU Center for Social Media and Politics (CSMaP)

Affiliation

Jordan Center for Advanced Study of Russia, New York University

Expertise

Russia, Politics, Public Opinion, Comparative Political Behavior, Elections, Post-Communist Politics, Social Media and Politics, Data Science
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Visiting Research Fellow, Faculty of Social Sciences

Affiliation

Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu, Estonia

Expertise

Russia, Tatarstan, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Mega-Events, Post-Soviet Urban Transformations, Nation-Building, Identities, Ukraine, Estonia