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.

 

Marlene Laurelle, Director, Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Illiberalism Studies Program, Central Asia Program; Co-Director, PONARS-Eurasia; Research Professor of International Affairs, George Washington University

Areas of expertise include: ideology; political philosophy; nationalism; the far right; extremism, populism, illiberalism; great power competition; Russia; Europe; Arctic; Central Asia.

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Robert Legvold, Marshall D. Shulman Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, Columbia University

Areas of expertise include: the foreign policies of Russia, Ukraine and the other new states of the former Soviet Union; U.S. relations with the post-Soviet states; impact of the post-Soviet region on the international politics of Asia and Europe.

Russia Matters editorial board member.

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Anatol Lieven, Director, Eurasia Program, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

Areas of expertise include: U.S. global strategy and the war on terror.

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Dominic Lieven, Visiting Professor, Chair of The Paulsen Programme, London School of Economics

Areas of expertise include: Imperial Russian history, history of empires, Napoleonic era, First World War and monarchy.

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Kadri Liik, Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations

Areas of expertise include: Russian domestic and foreign policy; relations between Russia and the West; the Baltic Sea area; Eastern Europe.

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Bobo Lo, Nonresident Fellow, Lowy Institute.

Areas of expertise include: Russian-Chinese relations and geopolitics.

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Brunilda Amarilis Lugo De Fabritz, Master Instructor for Russian, Howard University

Areas of expertise include: Russia; Eastern Europe; Russian and East European cinema; Russian literature of the nineteenth and twentieth century; the intersection of propaganda, political rhetoric and personal expression in Soviet artists' personal narratives from the Krushchev era; representation of Paul Robeson in the Soviet Union.

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Anna Makanju, OpenAI's Vice President of Global Affairs

Areas of expertise include: NATO; security and defense; Europe and Eurasia; Russia; cybersecurity; election integrity.

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Jeffrey Mankoff, Distinguished Research Fellow, U.S. National Defense University's Institute for National Strategic Studies; Non-Resident Senior Associate, CSIS

Areas of expertise include: Central Asia, defense and security, energy and sustainability, geopolitics and international security, post-Soviet Europe, Russia, Russia and Eurasia and the South Caucasus.

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Anaïs Marin, Associate Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Programme, Chatham House

Areas of expertise include: Russia; Eurasia; post-Soviet Eurasia; Belarus; foreign policy of authoritarian regimes; Russian foreign policy; European democracy and regional security; human rights.

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Kimberly Marten, Professor, Barnard College, Columbia University.

Areas of expertise include: international relations, international security, Russia and the global politics of climate change.

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Dara Massicot, Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Areas of expertise include: Russian military capabilities, Ukrainian military capabilities, Russian military reconstitution efforts

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