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.

 

Gwendolyn Sasse, Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Carnegie Europe; Director of the Centre for East European Research and International Studies (ZOiS) Berlin; Professor of Comparative Politics, Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford

Areas of expertise include: Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, EU enlargement and comparative democratization.

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Paul Saunders, President of the Center for the National Interest and Senior Advisor at Energy Innovation Reform Project.

Areas of expertise include: Russia, Eurasia, political development, energy security and national security.

Russia Matters editorial board member.

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Maria Shagina, Senior Fellow, Diamond-Brown Economic Sanctions, Standards and Strategy, International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Areas of expertise include: economic statecraft and international sanctions, energy security and energy transition and Russian foreign and domestic policies.

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Jeremy Shapiro, Research Director, European Council on Foreign Relations.

Areas of expertise include: Russia-NATO relations, transatlantic security and U.S. foreign policy.

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Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, Professor of Russian Politics and Director of King's Russia Institute, King's College London

Areas of expertise include: Russian foreign and domestic policy; comparative politics; political economy; Putin's leadership strategy; social identity theory.

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Joshua Shifrinson, Associate Professor, University of Maryland.

Areas of expertise include: Russia-NATO relations, NATO enlargement, U.S. policy toward Russia and China and the evolution of American grand strategy during and after the Cold War.

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Andrei Shleifer, John L. Loeb Professor of Economics, Harvard University

Areas of expertise include: the Russian economy; comparative corporate governance; law and finance; behavioral finance; institutional economics.

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Asif Siddiqi, Professor of History, Fordham University

Areas of expertise include: Russia; the history of science and technology in the 19th and 20th centuries; Soviet scientific and space activities; postcolonial studies; Slavic; ‘normative’ practices of secrecy in the history of science and technology.

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Li-Chen Sim, Assistant Professor, Department of Humanitites and Social Sciences, Khalifa University

Areas of expertise include: the political economy of Russian and Gulf energy (oil, gas, renewables, nuclear) and its intersection with international relations, Gulf-Asia relations, Russia-Middle East relations and the impact of energy on state-society patterns of interaction.

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Morena Skalamera, Assistant Professor of Russian Studies, Leiden University

Research interests include: the political economy of Eurasia; Russian and post-Soviet politics; and the geopolitics of energy in Eurasia.

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Regina Smyth, Professor of Political Science, Indiana University Bloomington

Areas of expertise include: Russian foreign and domestic policy; Russian politics; political development in the Russian federation; comparative politics; protest movements; dynamics of state-society relations in transitional and electoral authoritarian regimes.

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Maria Snegovaya, Senior Fellow for Russia and Eurasia, CSIS; Postdoctoral Fellow, Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service

Areas of expertise include: Russian foreign and domestic policy; party politics; political behavior; political economy; democratic backsliding in Europe; disinformation.

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