erikoistutkija

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Nykyiset projektit Ulkopoliittisessa instituutissa
Venäjän politiikka entisillä neuvostoalueilla: uudelleenarviointia

Tutkinnot
PhD (History), Ukrainan tiedeakatemia, 1997

Alan työkokemus
Vieraileva tutkija, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala, 2006-2007
Analyytikko, Jamestown Foundation, 2004-2006
Analyytikko, Central Eurasia Project, Open Society Institute, 2000-2006
Vieraileva tutkija, Harvard University, 2002
Fulbright Scholar, Columbia University, 2000
Kiovan-kirjeenvaihtaja, Russkaya Mysl/La Pensee Russe (Pariisi), 1998-2000
Tutkija, Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1988-1996
Vieraileva tutkija, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Washington D.C., 1995

Julkaisuja
The Southern Vector: Russian Strategic Interests in Central and South Asia," in Does South Asia Exist: Prospects for Regionalism in South Asia. Stanford University Press/Brookings Institution, 2009, forthcoming.

“Rethinking the Nation: Imperial Collapse, Eurasianism, and George Vernadsky’s Historical Scholarship,” Kennan Institute Occasional Paper, 2008.

“Making Sense of the Current Phase of the Turkish-Russian Relations,” Jamestown Foundation Occasional Paper, October 2007.

“Stuck in Two Overlapping Neighborhoods: Dilemmas of Kyiv’s European Integration and Russian-Ukrainian Relations,” Insight Turkey, vol. 9, no. 2, 2007.

“The West, Russia and China in Central Asia: What Kind of Game Is Being Played in the Region,” Journal of Central Asian and Caucasian Studies, vol.1, no. 2, 2006.

“Plans for Turkic Commonwealth,” CEPS European Neighborhood Watch 19, September 2006.

“Russia’s Failed Transition: Revisiting the Interrelationship between National Identity and Democratic Development,” Insight Turkey, vol. 8, no. 4, 2006.

“US-Russia Relations: Growing Rift Over Eurasia’s Democratization,” Russia Profile, March 28, 2006.

“Changes in Turkey and Ankara’s Policies in the South Caucasus” (in Russian), Kavkaz: Yezhegodnik Kavkazskogo Instituta SMI, 2006.

Luottamustehtävät
Member of Central Eurasia Studies Society (CESS)
Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN)
Association of Researchers of Russian Society in the Twentieth Century (AIRO-XX)
Council of Scientists, International Association for the promotion of co-operation with scientists from the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union (INTAS), Brussels (2004-2006)

Kielitaito
Venäjä, englanti, ukraina, puola, ranska