Expertise
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 issues—adversarial and cooperative alike—that 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.
Yulia Nikitina, Associate Professor of World Politics, Research Fellow at the Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Moscow State University of International Relations
Areas of expertise include: Russian domestic and foreign policy; post-Soviet studies; security politics in Eurasia; Collective Security Treaty Organization; Shanghai Cooperation Organization; Russian approaches to conflict settlement in Eurasia and beyond.
Michael E. O'Hanlon, Director of Research: Foreign Policy Program; Director: Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, Brookings Institution.
Areas of expertise include: European collective security, arms control, defense and energy.
John O'Loughlin, Professor, University of Colorado at Boulder.
Areas of expertise include: geopolitical orientations, territorial separatism and its consequences, de facto states in the Caucasus and Black Sea region and violent events.
Meghan O’Sullivan, Professor, Director of Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University.
Areas of expertise include: energy, geopolitics and foreign policy.
Anna Ohanyan, Richard B. Finnegan Distinguished Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Stonehill College; Nonresident Senior Scholar, Russia and Eurasia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Areas of expertise include: Russia; post-Communist Eurasia; conflict resolution; armed conflict; defense and security; Middle East; authoritarianism; state power; Russia's post-Soviet neighborhood; Cold War; Armenia's Velvet Revolution; democratic transition; mass-scale civic disobedience.
Olga Oliker, Program Director, Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group
Areas of expertise include: the foreign and security policies of Russia, Ukraine and the Central Asian and Caucasian successor states to the Soviet Union; domestic politics in these countries; U.S. policy toward the region.
Russia Matters editorial board member.
Mariya Omelicheva, Professor, National Security Strategy, National War College
Areas of expertise include: international security; Eurasian security; counterterrorism; human rights; democracy promotion in the post-Soviet territory; Russia's foreign policy; Central Asia.
Vladimir Padunov, Associate Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh
Areas of expertise include: history of Russo-Soviet cinema; 19th and 20th century novel; narrative theory; cultural politics.
Lynda Park, Executive Director, Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies
Areas of expertise include: Russia; Russian history; activities of the Imperial Russian Geographic Society in Siberia in the 19th century; the relationship between scientific knowledge production and empire-building; field research in Russia.
Stephanie Petrella, Director of Research, Greenmantle; Fellow, Eurasia Program, FPRI
Areas of expertise include: Russia; Eurasia; Central Europe; Eastern Europe; economics; political economy.
Nicolai N. Petro, Professor, University of Rhode Island.
Areas of expertise include: Ukraine, Russian domestic politics, the Russian Orthodox Church and Russian ideology.
Nikolai Petrov, Consulting Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Programme, Chatham House.
Areas of expertise include: Russian domestic politics and decision-making processes in Russia.
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- Russia Studies (30)
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- Nuclear Security (15)
- Arms Control (14)
- Energy (14)
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- Cultural studies (13)
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- Arctic (2)
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- University of Pittsburgh (11)
- Harvard University (10)
- Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (5)
- Harvard Kennedy School (5)
- Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (4)
- Brookings Institution (3)
- Columbia University (3)
- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies (3)
- Foreign Policy Research Institute (3)
- Kennan Institute (3)
- Princeton University (3)
- Stanford University (3)
- Carnegie Moscow Center (2)
- Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) (2)
- European Leadership Network (2)
- Federation of American Scientists (2)
- Georgetown University (2)
- George Washington University (2)
- Hoover Institution (2)
- Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia (2)
- King’s College London (2)
- Kissinger Associates (2)
- American University of Central Asia (1)
- Brandeis University (1)
- Center for the National Interest (1)
- Clark University (1)
- CNA Corporation (1)
- Council on Foreign Relations (1)
- Crown Center for Middle East Studies (1)
- EastWest Institute (1)
- Elliot School of International Affairs (1)
- Energy Innovation Reform Project (1)
- European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (1)
- Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (1)
- Harvard Business School (1)
- International Crisis Group (1)
- Leiden University (1)
- Middlebury Institute of International Studies (1)
- National Bureau of Economic Research (1)
- New America (1)
- New York University (1)
- NYU Social Media and Political Participation Lab (1)
- Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (1)
- Oxford University (1)
- Pardee RAND Graduate School (1)
- Polish Institute of International Affairs (1)
- PONARS Eurasia (1)
- Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) (1)
- Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft (1)
- RAND Corporation (1)
- Russian Nuclear Forces Project (1)
- The Wilson Center (1)
- U.S. Naval War College (1)
- University of California, Los Angeles (1)
- University of Cambridge (1)
- University of Wisconsin-Madison (1)
- Virginia Tech (1)
- Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs (1)
- Yale University (1)
- Yezhenedelny Zhurnal (1)