San Diego State University

Department of Political Science

San Diego, CA 92182

Ph.D. University of Washington, Political Science (International Relations,

Comparative Politics/Post-Soviet Studies; American Politics) 1996

MA (equivalent) Kiev State Institute of Foreign Languages 1989

BA (summa cum laude) Kiev State University: English, French, international studies 1985

Present: Assistant Professor, comparative politics and post-Soviet studies,

Books

Center-Periphery Conflict in Post-Soviet Russia: A Federation Imperiled (New York: St. Martin’s Press/London: Macmillan, 1999), editor.

Without Warning: Threat Assessment, Intelligence, and Global Struggle (New York: St. Martin's Press/London: Macmillan, 1997).
 
 

Articles and Chapters

From the Cold War to the "Cold Peace:" U.S.-Russian Interactions from Gorbachev to the Present, in Sabrina Ramet and Christine Ingebritsen, eds., U.S.-European Interactions, vol.2 (Rowman & Littlefield, forthcoming)

"Introduction: Challenges to the Russian Federation," "Conclusion: Asymmetric Russia: Promises and Dangers," in Center-Periphery Conflict in Post-Soviet Russia: A Federation Imperiled (New York: St. Martin’s Press/London: Macmillan, 1999).

"A Mirage of the ‘Amur California’: Regional Identity and Economic Incentives for Separatism in Primorskiy Kray" (with Tamara Troyakova), Center-Periphery Conflict in Post-Soviet Russia.

"Fortress Russia Or Gateway To Europe? The Pskov Connection" (with Vladimir Vagin), in Center-Periphery Conflict in Post-Soviet Russia.

"Russian Regions in Expanding Europe: The Pskov Connection" (with Vladimir Vagin), Europe-Asia Studies 51, no. 1 (1999): 43-64. Earlier version published as Occasional Paper No. 271, The Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

"Early Warning, Ethnopolitical Conflict, and the United Nations: Assessing the Violence in Georgia/Abkhazia," Nationalities Papers 26 (2) (June 1998): 191-213.

"Dagestan: Russia's Soft Underbelly," Institute for East-West Studies, Russian Regional Report (November 13, 1997).

"Russia's 'Cold Peace' Consensus: Transcending the Presidential Election," The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs 21:1 (Spring-Summer 1997): 33-49.

Comment on "Geotherapy: Russia's Neuroses, and Ours," by Stephen Sestanovich, in The National Interest (Winter 1996/97): 92-93.

"For Whom the Gates Open: News Reporting and Government Source Patterns in the United States, Great Britain, and Russia," Political Communication 12 (1995): 395-412 (with W. Lance Bennett)

"When Ukraine is No Longer 'Little Russia'," Oxford International Review 2 (1990): 29-32.

National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (U.S. Department of State Title VIII funding), with partial support from the University Research Council, Appalachian State University, and the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies: "Cross-Border Migration, Corruption, and Interethnic Security in the Russian Far East," including field research in Vladivostok and districts along China-Russia border, 1999-2000.

Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (U.S. Department of State Title VIII funding), Washington, DC, 1997: Research Scholarship, project title: "Predicting Ethnopolitical Conflicts in the Former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe: The Experience of the U.N. Early Warning System." Major case studies are: Tajikistan (1992, 1993-95), Nagorno Karabakh (1988-1994), Chechnya ( 1994-96), and Abkhazia (1993). The early warning practices at the U.N. were studied to gather data and test propositions.

International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), 1997: Travel grant to Russia, Moscow and Dagestan, for the project: "Russian-Chechen Wars in the Long-Perspective."

Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, 1995: A grant to study the U.S. National Intelligence Estimates on the Soviet Union and international communism at The National Archives, Washington, DC, in support of the Ph.D. dissertation research.

NATO, Democratic Institutions Fellowship, 1990-91

Reuters International Journalism Fellowship at the University of Oxford, England, 1990.

"Russia in Asia or Asia in Russia? Economic Incentives, Regional Identity, and Political Separatism in Primorskiy Kray," presented at the annual convention of the International Studies Association, Washington, DC, February 17, 1999.

A report on Primorye and Khabarovsk Territories, conference on Russian Federalism, U.S. Department of State, Meridian International Center, Washington DC, December 10, 1998

"Who Rules Today’s Russia?" roundtable presentation, 1998 National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, September 25, 1998.

"Globalization and Threat Assessment After the Cold War," Conference at the University of Washington, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, "Two Images of a Future U.S. Foreign Policy," April 24, 1998.

"Abkhazia, Georgia and Security in the North Caucasus," U.S. Department of State, Conference,

"Prospects for the North Caucasus," Meridian Center, Washington, DC, April 7, 1998.

"Russia’s ‘Cold Peace’ Consensus: Russian Elite Perceptions on Foreign Policy After the Cold War," 1997 National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, November, 1997.

"Early Warning, Ethnopolitical Conflict, and the United Nations: Assessing Violence in Georgia/Abkhazia," Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, discussion series; U.S. Department of State Title VIII research presentations, October 1997.

"Russian Regions in Expanding Europe: The Pskov Connection," presented at the 93rd Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 30, 1997.

"Why is NATO Enlargement a Threat: Russian Government Views," International Conference, "NATO Expansion and the Baltic States," University of Washington, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, Pacific Northwest Colloquium on International Security, May 6-7, 1997.

"The Race Between Chaos and Self-Determination" (challenges of nationalism to the process of democratic reforms in the Soviet Union), Presented at the International Symposium, "Voices of Democracy," University of Dayton (March, 1990), with Professors Robert Dahl, Lucian Pie, Guillermo O'Donnel. Published in The Civic Arts Review 3 (Spring-Summer 1990): 30-35

Conference Organizer:

"NATO Expansion and the Baltic States," University of Washington, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, Pacific Northwest Colloquium on International Security, May 6-7, 1997.

"Business and Politics in Independent Ukraine," International Conference sponsored by Pacifica Foundation (Seattle) and the Government of Ukraine, Kiev, March 1992: Co-Director. Arranged endorsement of the conference by the President of Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk.

Comparative Politics/Post-Soviet Studies: Foreign Policy of the Soviet Union; Multi-Ethnic States of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe; Soviet Political System; Russian Politics

International Relations: Introduction to IR

American Politics: Introduction to American Government; U.S. Foreign Policy

Russian (native), Ukrainian, English, French

American Political Science Association, International Studies Association, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Association for the Study of Nationalities; Oxford Union Society, University of Oxford, England (Life Member).

Citizenship: United States of America Born: May 3, 1963, Kiev, USSR.