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.

 

Tomas Matza, Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh

Areas of expertise include: psychotherapy and psychology in post-Soviet Russia; Russia's political and economic transformations following the collapse of the USSR.

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Lauren McCarthy, Associate Professor of Political Science and Legal Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Center Associate, Harvard Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

Areas of expertise include: Russian domestic and foreign policy; the relationship between law and society in Russia; police and law enforcement institutions; civilian oversight; human trafficking.

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Michael McFaul, Director, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies; Ken Olivier and Angela Nomellini Professor of International Studies, Department of Political Science; Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Areas of expertise include: American foreign policy, great power relations and the relationship between democracy and development.

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Kelly McMann, Lucy Adams Leffingwell Professor of Political Science, Case Western Reserve University

Areas of expertise include: comparative politics; democratization; political economy; local politics; political participation; corruption; political legitimacy; post-communist politics; Russia; Central Asia.

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Rajan Menon, Professor Emeritus, The City College of New York.

Areas of expertise include: international relations of Asia and Russia and U.S. foreign and national security policies.

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Christopher Miller, Professor of International History, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.

Areas of expertise include: technology and geopolitics, semiconductors, Russian history, politics, economics, foreign policy, Cold War history and diplomatic history.

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Vera Mironova, Associate Fellow at Davis Center at Harvard University and Middle East Institute

Areas of expertise include: individual level behavior in conflict environments, how exposure to violence affects individual attitudes and decision-making and field work in active conflict zones and post-conflict regions.

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Tatiana Mitrova, Research Fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University.

Areas of expertise include: energy, global energy markets, including production, transportation, demand, energy policy, pricing and market restructuring. 

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Cerwyn Moore, Associate Professor, University of Birmingham.

Areas of expertise include: theory, practice and interpretation of violence within global politics.

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Rolf Mowatt-Larssen,Senior Fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs AND William J. Perry Distinguished Fellow at Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)

Areas of expertise: energy, intelligence, terrorism and counterterrorism, weapons of mass destruction. 

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Nicholas Mulder, Assistant Professor and Milstein Faculty Fellow, Cornell University.

Areas of expertise include: European and international history between the nineteenth century and the present, political, economic, legal and intellectual history, with particular attention to the era of the world wars between 1914 and 1945 and sanctions.

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Cameron Munter, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council; Senior Fellow, Center for Transatlantic Relations, CEVRO Institute in Prague

Areas of expertise include: South Asia, Europe, conflict and conflict resolution, civil wars, economics and global affairs, international cooperation, international relations, history, international security and defense, negotiation and terrorism and counterterrorism.

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