Expertise

This is a general and evolving list of Russia experts available to the media and public. Unless otherwise indicated, the experts listed below are not affiliated with Russia Matters in any way.

In addition to the individual experts listed below, we would like to share an interactive multimedia guide to U.S.-Russia relations introduced in June 2019 by Carnegie Corporation of New York, called "U.S.-Russia Relations: Quest for Stability." This educational tool distills the fundamental issuesadversarial and cooperative alikethat define U.S.-Russia relations and harnesses the corporation’s unparalleled access to issue-area expertise, offering contemporary insight and analysis, historical context and a framework for moving toward greater geopolitical stability.

 

Julie George, Nonresident Fellow, Institute for Global Affairs at Eurasia Group

Areas of expertise include: nuclear proliferation, emerging technologies, international security, foreign policy and interstate conflict

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Alexander Golts, Analyst, Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS), Swedish Institute of International Affairs

Areas of expertise include: Russian military and security issues.

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Rose Gottemoeller, William J. Perry Lecturer, Freeman Spogli Institute and Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

Areas of expertise include: arms control, Russian nuclear posture, NATO and European security.

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Thomas Graham, Distinguished Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; Lecturer, Yale MacMillan Center; Co-Founder of Yale’s Russian Studies Project

Areas of interest include: Russian domestic politics, especially leadership issues; Russian center-regional relations; U.S.-Russian relations.

Russia Matters editorial board member.

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Nicole Grajewski, Nonresident Scholar, Nuclear Policy Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Areas of expertise include: Russian-Iranian relations, Russian nuclear strategy, Iran’s nuclear decision-making, contestation in the non-proliferation regime and nuclear deterrence.

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Bella Grigoryan, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh

Areas of expertise include: 18th- and 19th-century Russian literature and culture; neoclassicism, sentimentalism, romanticism realism; history of reading in the Russian Empire in a comparative context; Russian imperial politics and aesthetics; theories and histories of the novel; new materialism; Armenian history, literature and culture.

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Vadim Grishin, Professor, Center for Eurasian Russian and East European Studies, Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University.

Areas of expertise include: the Russian economy and international financial institutions.

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Sean Guillory, Digital Scholarship Curator, Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, University of Pittsburgh; Head, Sean's Russia Blog

Areas of expertise include: modern Russian history; Eurasian politics, culture and history.

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Sergei Guriev, Professor of Economics at London Business School, Former Sciences Po Provost, Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and member of the Executive Committee of the International Economic Association

Areas of expertise include: Russian political economics; contract theory; corporate governance; economics of development and transition.

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Thane Gustafson, Professor, Georgetown University.

Areas of expertise include: energy, climate change and Russian domestic politics and policymaking.

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Nikolas Gvosdev, 2024 Templeton Fellow and the Director of the National Security Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, Senior Fellow in the Eurasia Program and Editor of Orbis

Areas of expertise include: U.S. foreign policy and international relations; Russian and Eurasian affairs; developments in the Middle East.

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Henry Hale, Director of the Institute for European, Russian & Eurasian Studies (IERES), Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University’s Elliot School of International Affairs, and Co-Director, PONARS Eurasia

Areas of expertise include: political regimes; ethnic politics; federalism; democratization; political parties; politics of post-Soviet countries.

Russia Matters editorial board member.

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