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Education

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

Professional and Employment History

2002-present     Associate Professor, Political Science Department, San Diego State University

2000-2002         Assistant Professor, Political Science Department, San Diego State University.

1998-2000:        Assistant Professor, comparative politics and post-Soviet studies,

Appalachian State University (member institution, University of North Carolina)

1997-98:            Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies Program and Pacific Northwest Colloquium on International Security; principal investigator, “Russian Regions in Asia” Project.

1997:                Title VIII Research Scholar, The George F. Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC.

1997-present     Adjunct Master Professor of International Relations, Special Operations University; U.S. Air Force Special Operations School, Hurlburt Field, Florida (Russia/Eurasia Orientation Course, topics: Russian ethnic regions and conflicts, Chechnya and North Caucasus).

1991-96:            Graduate teaching assistant, Political Science, University of Washington.

Since 1990:       Op-ed contributor/commentator. Publications in: The New York Times, Newsweek, USA Today, Toronto Globe and Mail, The Seattle Times, San Jose Mercury News, The Oregonian, The Virginian Pilot/Ledger Star. Commentary on C-SPAN; KIRO TV (CBS); KING TV (NBC); KOMO TV (ABC); KCTS-9 (PBS); American Public Radio. Special correspondent at the Clinton-Yeltsin 1993 Vancouver Summit and Yeltsin's 1994 Pacific Northwest visit, The Seattle Times. Over 50 articles on post-Soviet politics.

1987 - 1990:      Senior correspondent; Head of the Political News Department, News from Ukraine. Coverage/interviews with Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, Francois Mitterrand, Brian Mulroney, George Shultz, Sir Geoffrey Howe. Extensive coverage of political institutions in Russia and Ukraine. Major assignments: USSR Supreme Soviet (Kremlin, Moscow); Ukrainian Supreme Soviet; Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Ukraine; Foreign Ministry of Ukraine. Over 150 articles on Soviet and Ukrainian politics, life. Special assignments in: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Lithuania, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.

1984 - 1987:      News editor/producer, Radio Kiev, Ukrainian SSR State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting, English Service. Oversaw daily production of news bulletins and produced approximately 200 news analysis programs in the "Ukraine Today" series.

Scholarly Refereed Books

Immigration Phobia and the Security Dilemma: Russia, Europe, and America (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005).

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).

Peer-Reviewed Articles

“Ballot-Box Vigilantism: Ethnic Population Shifts and Xenophobic Voting in Post-Soviet Russia,” Political Behavior 28 (3)(September 2006): 211-240.

“Russia, China, and the Immigration Security Dilemma” Political Science Quarterly (Spring 2006): 1-32 (with C. Richard Hofstetter).

“Economic Valuations and Interethnic Fears: Perceptions of Chinese Migration in the Russian Far East,” Journal of Peace Research 40(1) (January 2003): 89-106.

“Regionalism in Russian Foreign Policy in the 1990s: A Case of Reversed Anarchy,” Donald Treadgold Papers (The University of Washington, Seattle: Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies Series, 2003), No. 37.

“Decentralization vs. State Collapse: Explaining Russia’s Endurance After Soviet Disintegration,” Journal of Peace Research 38 (1) (2001): 111-116.

“Socioeconomic and Security Implications of Chinese Migration in the Russian Far East,” Post-Soviet Geography and Economics 42, no. 2 (2001): 95-114.

“Ugrozhaet li Rossii kitaiskaia migratsiia? Territorial’naia bezopasnost’, ekonomicheskoe razvitie I mezhetnicheskie otnosheniia v Primorskom krae” [Is Chinese migration a threat to Russia? Territorial security, economic development, and interethnic relations in Primorskii krai] Mirovaia ekonomika i mezhdunarodnye otnosheniia [World Economy and International Relations, IMEMO journal] Nos. 11 and 12 (November and December 2000).

“Watching Out for Regional Separatism in the Russian Far East: Ideological Cueing of Territorial Security, Economic Incentives, and Cultural Identity,” Geopolitics 4 (3) (Winter 2000): 120-144.

“Russia in Asia or Asia in Russia? Regional Identity and Economic Incentives for Political Separatism in Primorskii krai,” Pacific Focus, vol. 14, no. 2 (1999): 117-52. (with Tamara Troyakova)

“Russian Regions in Expanding Europe: The Pskov Connection” (with Vladimir Vagin), Europe-Asia Studies 51, no. 1 (1999): 43-64.

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

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

"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.

Chapters in Refereed Books

“Migration, Hostility, and Ethnopolitical Mobilization: Russia’s Anti-Chinese Legacies in Formation,” in Blair Ruble and Dominique Arel, eds., Rebounding Identities (Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2006 forthcoming)

“Back to Hell: Civilian-Military ‘Audience Costs’ and Russia’s Wars in Chechnya,” Chapter 4 in Stephen L. Webber and Jennifer G. Mathers, eds., The Military and Society in Post-Soviet Russia (Manchester University Press, 2005).

“Chinese Migration into Primorskii Krai: Economic Effects and Interethnic Hostility,” in Shinichiro Tabata and Akihiro Iwashita, eds. Slavic Eurasia’s Integration into the World Economy and Community (Sapporo: Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, 2004), pp. 329-367.

“Russia’s Security Challenges in the ‘Near Abroad’ from Yeltsin to Putin,” in Stephen Wegren, ed. Russia’s Security Challenges in the 21st Century (M.E. Sharpe, 2003), pp. 38-57.

“Center-Periphery Conflict as a Security Dilemma: Moscow vs. Vladivostok,” in Graeme P. Herd and Anne Aldis, eds., Russian Regions and Regionalism: Strength through Weakness? (London: RoutledgeCurzon Press, 2003), pp. 164-184.

“Desecuritizing Sovereignty: Economic Interest and Responses to Political Challenges of Chinese Migration in the Russian Far East,” in John D. Montgomery and Nathan Glazer, eds., Sovereignty under Challenge: How Governments Respond (Transaction Publishers, 2002), pp. 261-289.

“Chinese Migration in the Russian Far East: Security Threats and Incentives for Cooperation in Primorskii Krai,” in Judith Thornton and Charles Ziegler, eds., Russia’s Far East: A Region at Risk? (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002), pp. 319-348.

“From the Cold War to the ‘Cold Peace:’ U.S.-Russian Interactions from Gorbachev to the Present,” in Sabrina Ramet and Christine Ingebritsen, eds., Coming In From the Cold War: Changes in U.S.-European Interactions Since 1980, vol.2 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001), pp. 147-172.

“Introduction: Challenges to the Russian Federation,” in Mikhail A. Alexseev, ed., Center-Periphery Conflict in Post-Soviet Russia: A Federation Imperiled (New York: St. Martin’s Press/London: Macmillan, 1999), pp. 1-14.

 “Conclusion: Asymmetric Russia: Promises and Dangers,” in Mikhail A. Alexseev, ed., Center-Periphery Conflict in Post-Soviet Russia: A Federation Imperiled (New York: St. Martin’s Press/London: Macmillan, 1999), pp. 247-280.

“Fortress Russia or Gateway to Europe? The Pskov Connection” (with Vladimir Vagin), in Mikhail A. Alexseev, ed., Center-Periphery Conflict in Post-Soviet Russia: A Federation Imperiled  (New York: St. Martin’s Press/London: Macmillan, 1999), pp. 167-204.

 “A Mirage of the ‘Amur California’: Regional Identity and Economic Incentives for Political Separatism in Primorskiy Kray” (with Tamara Troyakova), in Mikhail A. Alexseev, ed. Center-Periphery Conflict in Post-Soviet Russia: A Federation Imperiled  (New York: St. Martin’s Press/London: Macmillan, 1999), pp. 205-246.

Research Grants, Fellowships, Externally Funded Projects

The National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (U.S. Department of State, Title VIII) (2006-2008): “Migration and Inter-Minority Xenophobia in the Russian Federation” includes surveys in the North Caucasus ($39,950).

National Science Foundation: "Migration and Ethnoreligious Hate Crime in the Russian Federation: Risk Profiles 2000-2010,” (award no. SES-0452557) (2005-2007) (with Prof. Richard Hofstetter, Co-P.I.) ($212,890)

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation: Research and Writing Grant of the Program on Global Security and Sustainability (2005-2007): “The ‘Number Game:’ Sources of Public Support for Anti-Migrant Exclusionism in Post-Soviet Russia” (with Prof. Sergey V. Golunov, Volgograd State University ($87,000)

John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress: “The Origins of Hostility: Migration, Insecurity, and Ethnic Prejudice at the Russia-China Border” (2002-2003): ($31,500)

San Diego State University: An award of one-half time release in Spring 2002 for research on Chinese migration in the Russian Far East and an award of Grants-in-Aid for graduate research assistant.

United States Institute of Peace (2000-2001): “Chinese Migration in the Russian Far East: Event-Data and Survey Design for Preventive Monitoring of Nationalist Activism” ($40,000).

Pacific Basin Research Center, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and the Soka University of America (2000-2001): “Chinese Migration in the Russian Far East: Preventive Monitoring of Ethnopolitical Activism with Surveys and Event Data Analysis” ($30,000).

Center for Strategic and International Studies: member of the Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS), a collaborative project for U.S. and Russian scholars (formerly with the Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University, and the Council on Foreign Relations) (since 1999)

Carnegie Corporation of New York/National Bureau of Asian Research: contributor to the successful grant proposal and participant in the project, “Security Implications of Political and Economic Developments in the Russian Far East” (1999-2000).

National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (U.S. Department of State Title VIII funding) (1999-2000), ($11,000) w/additional 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 Primorskii krai.

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 ($18,000).

International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) (1997): Travel grant to Russia, Moscow and Dagestan, for the project: "Russian-Chechen Wars in the Long-Perspective;" 2000: Travel grant to Russian, Moscow and Vladivostok, Chinese Migration project. ($3,500)

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 ($2,000)

NATO, Democratic Institutions Fellowship (1990-91) ($6,000)

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

Original Databases

Event Data: Ethnoreligious Violence in the Russian Federation, 2002-2006 (2004-2005 complete, other under construction) (estimated total N=1,000), hate violence events (murder, assassination, assault, arsons, pogroms, harassment, menacing, criminal mischief [e.g., cemetery desecration, vandalism], etc.) categorized by ethnicity and religious affiliation of perpetrators and victims, broken down by province/city/

County; severity controlled by applying the hate violence index based on the methodology developed by the Global Events Data Systems (University of Maryland) for coding internal conflict intensity.

Opinion Survey: Migration and Ethnoreligious Hostility in the Russian Federation; first database received 10/07/2005, N=4,730, based on multistage probability sampling of the population of the Russian Federation (N=680), Moscow Oblast (N=400), Moscow City (N=400), Krasnodar krai (N=650), Tatarstan (N=650), Volgograd Oblast (N=650), Orenburg Oblast (N=650) conducted by the Levada Analytical Center (Moscow), and Primorskii krai (N=650, forthcoming), conducted by the Public Opinion Research Laboratory, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences. 

Aggregate Data: Ethnic Composition of the Russian Federation, 1989-2002—data on ethnic group size, proportion, size change and proportion change from 1989 through 2002, recorded in the censuses of the Russian Federation, aggregated by (a) 89 constituent regions (oblast, krai, and republic) and (b) by over 3,000 counties and urban administrative districts of the Russian Federation [under construction]

Aggregate Data: Migration in the Russian Federation, 1992-2004: migration levels and migration level change, with breakdown by country of origin for 89 constituent units (regions and republics) of the Russian Federation, based on Russian State Committee for Statistics annuals [available upon request]

Opinion Survey: “Economic Valuations and Interethnic Fears: Perceptions of Chinese Migration in the Russian Far East.” Conducted in Primorskii krai, September 2000, N=1010. Stratified random sampling proportionate to estimated population size.” Deposited at the Library Archive at the Vladivostok Institute of History, Ethnography and Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok 690000, Pushkinskaia Street, 89. Reference numbers are, as transliterated from Russian: Fond 1, opis’2, delo 435. (Posted on “Russia in Asia” web site, www.rohan.sdsu.edu/~alexseev).

“Economic Valuations and Interethnic Fears: Perceptions of Chinese Migration in the Russian Far East,” Publications Related Archive, University of Michigan, Inter-University Consortium of Political and Social Research, Study No. 1256 (www.icpsr.umich.edu).

“Chinese Migration and Nationalist Activism in the Russian Far East, 1993-2000,” an event-data base of over 3,250 event summaries on developments affecting Chinese migrants in Primorskii krai, Russia; the summaries are coded to COPDAB/GEDS specifications). (www.rohan.sdsu.edu/~alexseev)

Articles in Refereed Proceedings and Peer-Reviewed Working Papers

“Vospriiatie masshtabov migratsii v Rossii: etnoregional’nye izmeneniia I psihologiia tsifr,” [Perceptions of Migration Scale in Russia: Ethnoregional Change and the Psychology of Numbers], Monitoring Obshchestvennogo Mneniia [Public Opinion Monitor], Levada Analytical Center, Moscow, Russia (September 2006).

“Xenophobia in Russia: Are the Young Driving It?” Policy Memo No. 367, Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS), Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC, December 2005.

“Security Sell-Out in the Caucasus: How Government Centralization Backfires,” Policy Memo, Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS), Washington, DC, February 2005.

“Vostok-2003 War Games: Preparing to Defend a Nigeria on the Pacific,” Policy Memo No. 317, Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS), Washington, DC, December 2003.

“Regionalism in Russian Foreign Policy in the 1990s: A Case of Reversed Anarchy,” Donald Treadgold Papers (The University of Washington, Seattle: Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies Series, 2003), No. 37, pp. 2-48.

“Chechnya: 9/11, the Moscow Hostage Crisis and Opportunities for Political Settlement,” Policy Memo No. 210, Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS), Washington, DC, December 2002.

“Assuaging Ethnic Factionalism Dagestan's Lessons for Post-Taliban Settlement in Afghanistan,” Policy Memo No. 210, Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS), Washington, DC, January 2002.

“What Drives Russia Coverage in the Mainstream American Press?” Policy Memo No. 192, Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS), Washington, DC, May 2001, presented at the Carnegie Moscow Center in Moscow, May 28, 2001.

"The Chinese are Coming: Public Opinion and Threat Perception in the Russian Far East,” Policy Memo No. 184, Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS), Washington, DC, February 2001.

“U.S. War on Terrorism: How Do Russian Muslims Respond,” Policy Memo No., Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS), Washington, DC,  November 2001.

“Globalization at the Edges of Insecurity: Migration, Interethnic Relations, Market Incentives and International Economic Interactions in post-Soviet Russia’s Border Regions,” Working Paper, Center for Security Studies and Conflict Research, (Zurich, Switzerland, 2001).

“Instrumental Internationalization: Regional Foreign and Security Policy Interests in Primorskii Krai,” Working Paper, Center for Security Studies and Conflict Research (Zurich, Switzerland, 2001).

“What Drives Russia Coverage in the Mainstream American Press?” Policy Memo No. 192, Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS), Moscow, Russia, May 2001.

From Strategic Partnership to Pragmatic Relationship: Domestic Sources of Russia’s Perceptions of the United States in the Late 1990s,” in Russian National Security: Perceptions, Policies, and Prospects, (U.S. Army War College, Center for Strategic Leadership, 2001).

"The Chinese are Coming: Public Opinion and Threat Perception in the Russian Far East,” Policy Memo No. 184, Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS), Washington, DC, February 2001.

“Russia’s Periphery in the Global Arena: Do Regions Matter in Shaping the Kremlin’s Foreign Policy?” Policy Memo No. 156, Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS), Washington, DC, December 2000.

“Are Chinese Migrants a Threat? Territorial Insecurity, Economic Incentives, and Interethnic Relations in Primorskii krai,” Working Paper, National Council for Eurasian and European Research, Washington, DC, 2000.

“Chinese Migration in Primorskii Krai: An Assessment of Its Scale, Socioeconomic Impact, and Opportunities for Corruption,” Working Paper, National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, Washington, DC, 1999.

“From Chechnya to the Pacific: Dealing with Unintended Consequences of Anti-Federalist Centralization in Russia,” Policy Memo No. 117, Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS), Washington, DC Conference, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, March 2000.

“The ‘Yellow Peril’ revisited: The Impact of Chinese Migration in Primorskii krai,”Policy Memo No. 94, Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS), Washington, DC Conference, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, November 5, 1999.

“Chinese Migration in Primorskii Krai: An Assessment of Its Scale, Socioeconomic Impact, and Opportunities for Corruption,” Working Paper, National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, Washington, DC, December 1999.

Conference Papers and Invited Presentations

            “Migration and Ethnoreligious Hate Crime in Russia: Risk Profiles 2000-2010,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, August 31, 2006.

            “Fortress Russia: An overview of the 2005 Russian Federation Survey on Immigration Attitudes and Ethnic Relations,” presentation, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California, San Diego, May 16, 2006.

            “Education vs. Xenophobia,” presentation at the conference, "G8 Global Security Agenda: Challenges and Interests--Towards the St.-Petersbourg Summit," Center for Policy Studies (PIR Center), Moscow, Russia, April 21, 2006.      

            “Immigration Phobia and the Security Dilemma: Russia, Europe, and the United States,” presentation, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland, March 28, 2006.

“Nationhood Vigilantism in the Global Semi-Periphery: Migration and Ethnoreligious Hostility in Russia,” paper presented at the International Studies Association Annual Convention, San Diego, CA March 22, 2006.

            “Demographic Change, Migration, and Ethnic Relations in Russia,” Titan Corporation, Maryland, February 22-23, 2006.

“Who Wants “Fortress Russia”? The Results of a Special Survey on Ethnoreligious Hostility in the Russian Federation,” presentation, U.S. Department of State (INR), February, 2006.

“The ‘Number Game:’ Sources of Public Support for Xenophobic Voting in Post-Soviet Russia,” Paper presented at the First Global International Studies Conference, International Studies Association, Istanbul, Turkey, August 26, 2005.

“Ethnic Composition Change in Russia 1994-2003: Implications for Xenophobic Voting” (with Nikolay Petrov), International Studies Association Annual Convention, Honolulu, March 3, 2005.

“The Russian Far East: Demography and Regional Politics as Drivers of Russian Foreign Policy in East Asia,” American Association for the Advanced Slavic Studies, 36th Annual Convention, Boston, December 4, 2004 (invited paper at the State Department sponsored panel).

“Migration Phobia: The Security Dilemma and Anti-Migrant Hostility in the Russian Far East and the European Union,” invited presentation, University of Chicago, the comparative politics (PIPES) seminar series, Wilder House, May 5, 2004.

“Migration as the Security Dilemma; Exaggerated Threats and Anti-Migrant Hostility in Russia’s Borderlands,” International Studies Association, 45th Annual Convention, Montreal, March 17, 2004.

“Through the Lenses of the Security Dilemma: Explaining Anti-Migrant Perceptions in Russia’s Borderlands,” American Association for the Advanced Slavic Studies, 35th Annual Convention, Toronto, November 20, 2003.

“The Security Outlook for the Russian Far East: Challenges, Capabilities and Strategies,” Korean Research Institute for Strategy, a symposium, “The Strategic Balance in Northeast Asia,” Seoul, Korea, July 22, 2003.

“Chinese Migration in Primorskii Krai” Economic Effects and Interethnic Hostility,” 2003 Summer International Symposium, “Slavic Eurasia’s Integration into the World Economy and Community,” July 16-19, 2003, Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo.    

“Demographic, Political, and Socioeconomic Challenges in Siberia and the Russian Far East,” Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. Department of State, Arlington, VA. March 11, 2003.

“Russian Far East Scenarios,” Strategic Assessments Group conference, April, May, June sessions, 2002.

“Russian Politics at the International-Domestic Frontier,” Roundtable chair and presenter of “Reversed Anarchy: Russia’s Security Challenges in the ‘Near Abroad’ from Yeltsin to Putin,” 43rd Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, New Orleans, March 24, 2002.

Interethnic Hostility and Chinese Migration in Primorskii krai,” presentation at the Multucultural Legacies in Post-Soviet Russia worshop sponsored by the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, March 22, 2002.

“Russian Census 2002: Key Issues in Primorskii krai,” Brown University, Watson Institute, Providence, RI, March 18, 2002.

“Back to Hell: Civilian-Military ‘Audience Costs’ and Russia’s Wars in Chechnya,” Royal Military Academy, Brussels, Belgium, February 16, 2002.

“Regional Demographic and Political Trends in the Russian Far East,” Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, Washington, DC, January 15, 2002.   

“Russian Muslim Responses to the U.S. War on Terrorism,” roundtable, Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Crystal City/Washington, DC, November 14, 2001.   

“Economic Perceptions and Interethnic Hostility: Russian Attitudes toward Chinese Migrants in Primorskii krai,” Paper presented at the International Studies Association Convention, Hong Kong, July 28, 2001.

“Insecurity, Economic Perceptions, and Interethnic Hostility: Russian Attitudes toward Chinese Migrants in Primorskii krai,” Paper presented at the Conference on Nationality and Citizenship in Post-Communist Europe, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, July 9-10, 2001.          

“Identity, Interests, and Security: Cross-Border Migration and Policy Preferences Vis-à-vis China and Chinese Nationals in the Russian Far East,” Paper presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Chicago, February 21, 2001.

“Security Threat, Economic Interest and Political Responses to Chinese Migration in the Russian Far East,” Pacific Basin Research Center, Soka University of America, Laguna Beach, CA, Feb 10, 2001.

“Chinese Migration in the Russian Far East as a Challenge to Sovereignty.” Pacific Basin Research Center, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, July 13, 2000.

“Are Chinese Migrants at Risk in Primorskii krai? Monitoring Interethnic Relations with Opinion and Event Data,” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, New York, April 13, 2000.

“Chinese Migration in Primorskii krai,” Program on Security Implications of Political and Economic Developments in the Russian Far East, National Bureau of Asian Research, Khabarovsk, Russia, October 21, 1999.

“Russia in Asia or Asia in Russia? Economic Incentives, Regional Identity, and Political Separatism in Primorskiy Kray,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association annual meeting in Atlanta, September 2, 1999.

“Russia and China: Managing Regional Relations in the Face of Ethnic Aspirations,” International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), Hsueh Chun-tu Huang Hsing Foundation Lecture Series, June 23, 1999.

“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.

“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

Web site

RUSSIA IN ASIA: Chinese Migration in the Maritime Territory: Economic, Political, and Security Implications for the Russian Far East (http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~alexseev/index.htm)

Book reviews

            The Dynamics of Russian Politics: Putin's Reform of Federal-Regional Relations, Volume II. Ed. Peter Reddaway and Robert W. Orttung. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005. xi, 527 pp., in Slavic Review (2006, forthcoming).

Jones, Stephen F. Socialism in Georgian Colors: The European Road to Social Democracy 1883-1917. Harvard University Press, 2005. 384 pp., in Russia Journal (July 2006) 65 (3): 534.

            Brudny, Yitzhak, Jonathan Frankel and Stefani Hoffman, eds. Restructuring Post-Communist Russia. Cambridge University Press, 2004. xiv + 286 pp. $60.00. ISBN 0-521-84027-9, Russia Journal(April 2005) 64 (2): 368-369.

            Dmitry P. Gorenburg, Minority Ethnic Mobilization in the Russian Federation, Cambridge University Press, 2003. 297pp., in Slavic Review (Winter 2004): 903-904.

Daniel R. Kempton and Terry D. Clark, eds. Unity or Separation: Center-Periphery Relations in the Former Soviet Union.Westport: Praeger, 2002. 336 pp, in Slavic Review (Spring 2003): 207.

            Igor Zevelev, Russia and Its New Diasporas (Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2001), in Political Science Quarterly (Summer 2002) (117) (2): 332-334.

Ilya Prizel, National Identity and Foreign Policy: Nationalism and Leadership in Poland, Russia, and Ukraine. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998, 443 pp., in Canadian American Journal of Slavic Studies(2001).

Daniel S. Treisman. After the Deluge: Regional Crises and Political Consolidation in Russia. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1999. xii, 262 pp., in Slavic Review(Spring 2001): 192.

James R. Harris, The Great Urals: Regionalism and the Evolution of the Soviet System. London and Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999, 235 pp.,in Europe-Asia Studies52 (2000): 959-61.

            Graham Smith, Vivien Law, Andrew Wilson, Annette Bohr, and Edward Allworth, eds. Nation-building in the Post-Soviet Borderlands: The Politics of National Identities. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, 293 pp., in Canadian American Journal of Slavic Studies(2000).         

Courses Taught

Comparative Politics/Post-Soviet Studies: Post-Communist Systems (graduate & undergraduate); Foreign Policy of the Soviet Union; Multi-Ethnic States of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe; Soviet Political System; Russian Politics and Society; Politics of the Developing Nations (graduate); Comparative Politics: Introduction to Research (graduate)

International Relations: International Relations (graduate and undergraduate), War and Security in the Modern World; Global Peace, Internal Wars (general honors)

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

            Methods: Qualitative Research Methods (research design and opinion surveys)

Service

Referee:

Peer-reviewed journal articles: Political Science Quarterly (2003-2004), International Security (Belfer Center, Harvard University), 2001; Comparative Political Studies (James Caporasso, ed. University of Washington), 1998-present; Security Dialogue, 2003; Geopolitics, 2002; Journal of Conflict Studies (2005).

Scholarly book manuscripts: Cambridge University Press, Longman, Oxford University Press, Woodrow Wilson Center Press

Research grant proposals:

Carnegie Corporation of New York

Individual Advanced Research Opportunities program of the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), Washington, DC, December 2004-January 2006.

Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, US Department of State, Contemporary Issues Fellowship Program of the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), Washington, DC, December 2003-January 2004.

NIS Regional Scholars program, Caucasus Section, National Council for Eurasian and East European Research/American Council of the Teachers of Russian, 1999, 2000

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.

Member-at-Large, Executive Committee of the Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migrations Section (ENMISA) of the International Studies Association (ISA), March 2006-present.

Member, Research Committee, College of Arts and Letters, SDSU, 2006-present

Member, Institute for International Security and Conflict Resolution, San Diego State University.

Recruitment Committee Chair, Political Science, San Diego State University, 2001, 2002, 2003.

Graduate Committee, Political Science Department, San Diego State University.

Grant selection committee, NIS Regional Scholars program, Caucasus Section, National Council for Eurasian and East European Research/American Council of the Teachers of Russian, 1999, 2000

Grant selection committee, Individual Advanced Research Opportunities program of the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), Washington, DC, December 2004-January 2005.

Grant selection committee, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, US Department of State, Contemporary Issues Fellowship Program of the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), Washington, DC, December 2003-January 2004.

University Research Council, Appalachian State University, member 1999/2000

Model UN consultant; Comparative/Int’l Relations, and American Government curriculum committees, Department of Political Science, Appalachian State University, 1998-2000.

Board member, San Diego-Vladivostok Sister City Society, 2001-present; vice-president (2002)

Languages

Russian (native), Ukrainian, English, French

Professional Associations and Societies

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).