specialforskare

igor.torbakovupi-fiia.fi
Telefon 0206 111 754

Nuvarande projekt inom Utrikespolitiska institutet
Rysslands politik i f.d. sovjetområdet; omvärdering

Examina
PD (historia), Vetenskapsakademin i Ukraina, 1997

Arbetserfarenhet
Gästforskare, Kollegiet för avancerade studier, Uppsala, 2006-2007
Analytiker, Jamestown Foundation, 2004-2006
Analytiker, Central Eurasia Project, Open Society Institute, 2000-2006
Gästforskare, Harvard University, 2002
Fulbright Scholar, Columbia University, 2000
Kievkorrespondent, Russkaya Mysl/La Pensee Russe (Paris), 1998-2000
Forskare, Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1988-1996
Gästforskare, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Washington D.C., 1995

Publikationer
“The AKP and Russia: The Rise of an Uneasy Partnership in Eurasia” in Bill Parks, ed., The AKP and Turkey as a Regional Power (Stanford University Press, 2011), på kommande.

“Between Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia: George Vernadsky’s Search for Identity” in Sanna Turoma and Maxim Waldstein, eds., Decentering Empire: New Perspective on Soviet Space (Ashgate, 2011), på kommande. 

Russia's Strategic Interests in Central and South Asia," in Does South Asia Exist: Prospects for Regional Integration. Brookings Institution Press, 2010.

“Assessing the Prospects of Russia’s Modernization,” Baltic Rim Economies, no. 3, 2010.

“Russia and Turkish-Armenian Normalization: Competing Interests in the South Caucasus,” Insight Turkey, vol. 12, no. 2 (Spring 2010).

The Morning After: Where is Ukraine Headed Under President Yanukovych, FIIA Briefing Paper 54 (February 2010). 

Ukrainian Elections: Historical and Socio-Political Context” (in Finnish), Ulkopolitiikka (Finnish
Journal of Foreign Affairs), no. 4 (2009).
 

"'Can't Buy Me Love: Will the Global Economic Downturn Help Russia Consolidate Its Influence in Post-Soviet Eurasia," FIIA Briefing Paper 33, september 2009.

"China-Turkey and Xinjiang: A Frayed Relationship," Open Democracy, July 31, 2009.

"Looking for a New Strategic Identity: Is Turkey Emerging as a New Regional Power?" FIIA Briefing Paper 30, maj 2009.

“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.

Förtroendeuppdrag
Medlem i 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)

Språkkunskaper
Ryska, engelska, ukrainska, polska, franska