October 2018 Robert D. English

VKC 305, Univ.of Southern California 619 Tuallitan RoadLos Angeles, CA 90089 Los Angeles, CA 90049(213) 821-3090 renglish@usc.edu (626) 372-4161

Education

Ph.D., Department of Politics, Princeton University, 1995Exam fields: international relations theory, comparative politics,

Russian historyDissertation: Intellectual and Political Origins of Soviet “New Thinking”

M.P.A., Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, 1982Fields: foreign policy, national security, international economics

B.A., Department of History, University of California at Berkeley, 1980President’s Undergraduate Fellowship for research at the University of

Zagrebtoward honors thesis on Origins of the Croatian Peasant Party, 1899-

1905

Teaching and research appointments

Deputy and Director, USC School of International Relations, 2012-2016, 2018-date

Associate Professor, USC School of International Relations, 2004 (Assistant since 2001)Joint appointments in Slavic Languages and Literatures (since 2006) and Environmental Studies (since 2012)

Graduate courses: Russian and Post-Soviet Politics; Strategy and Arms Control; International Relations Theory; Social Science and Historical Research Methods Undergraduate: Russian and Post-Soviet Foreign Policy; Political Economy of Eurasia; Technology and International Relations; Climate Change and Global Security; Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict; Foreign Policy of East-Central Europe; Ethnicity, Nationalism and Religion in Post-Communist Politics

Visiting Fellow, Sciences Po (Centre des Ameriques), Paris, Spring 2009

Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ, 2000-2001

Assistant Professor, Bologna Center, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, 1998-2000

Assistant Professor, Political Science Department, Allegheny College, 1994-1998

Security and arms control experience

Senior Analyst, Committee for National Security, 1985-1987Analysis of strategic defense and space weapons, treaty verification and

compliance,general Soviet political-military affairs.

Policy Analyst, U.S. Department of Defense, 1982-1985Strategic and conventional force planning (e.g. B-52 modernization, ASW and C3I programs, CRAF). Also program review analysis, drafting Congressional testimony and speeches.

Fellowships, grants, honors and awards

USC Mellon Mentoring Award, 2013

Joint Appointment in Environmental Studies, 2012

USC Dana and David Dornsife College Faculty Fellow, 2011-13

Religion, Identity & Global Governance new course grant, December 2008

Mortar Board Senior Honor Society, “tapped” in March, 2007

Joint Appointment in Slavic Languages and Literatures, 2006

Membership in World Political Forum, 2004

Edgar S. Furniss Award (Mershon Center, for outstanding contribution to the study

of national or international security), 2001

Marshal Shulman Prize (American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, for best book on foreign relations of the former USSR), 2001

NEH Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ), 2000-01

Harold D. Lasswell Prize (American Political Science Assoc. dissertation award), 1996

Lambda Sigma “Best Professor” Award, Allegheny College, 1996

Princeton Society of Fellows, 1992-93

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MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, Center of International Studies, Princeton, 1991-92

Distinguished Fellow in International Relations, U.S. Fund for Peace/Soviet Peace Fund, 1990

International Research and Exchanges Board Fellowship, 1989-90

Council on Foreign Relations, term member, 1988-92

Ford Foundation “Dual Expertise” Fellowship, Soviet/Security Studies, 1988-89

Superior Performance Commendation, Office of the Secretary of Defense, 1984

Professional societies

International Studies Association; American Political Science Association; American

Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies; The Naval Institute

Languages

Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Italian (fluent); French, Spanish (reading)

Publications

Under review

“A Presumption of Guilt: Western Media Bias in Portrayals of the Russia-

Georgia Conflict,” co-author Kate Svyatets, at the journal Post-Soviet Affairs

In progress

Mikhail Gorbachev: A Political Biography (under contract at Potomac Books,

flagship volume in series “Shapers of International History”—manuscript to publisher in August 2019).

Our Serbian Brethren: History and Identity in the Making of Russia’s Balkan Diplomacy

Books

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Russia and the Idea of the West: Gorbachev, Intellectuals, and the End of the Cold War (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000). Awarded 2001 Marshal Shulman Prize and 2001 Edgar S. Furniss Award (see detail in “fellowships and awards” section above).

Rebirth: A History of Europe Since World War II (Boulder, CO: Westview Press,

1999), co-authors Cyril Black, Jonathan Helmreich, and James McAdams.

The Other Side: How Soviets and Americans Perceive Each Other (Brunswick, NJ: Transactions Press, 1987), co-author Jonathan C. Halperin.

Edited projects

“Hegemony and its Discontents,” co-authored introduction (with Steve Lamy) and edited special edition of International Studies Review, vol. 7, no. 4 (December 2005).

My Six Years With Gorbachev (University Park, Penn State University Press, 2000) This book, the memoirs of Gorbachev aide Anatoly Chernyaev, was extensively edited and annotated. I also wrote the introduction, “Six Years That Shook the World,” and was co-translator (with Elizabeth Tucker) from the original Russian.

Articles and chapters

“Russia and the Arctic: Constructing a New Cold War?” in Andrei Tsygankov, ed., The Handbook of Russian Foreign Policy (Routledge, 2018): 338-351 8,400 words.

“Russia, Trump, and a New Détente?” Foreign Affairs (Summer 2017) 5,400 words.

Accessible online at: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/russian-federation/2017-03-10/russia-trump-and-new-d-tente

Articles and chapters, contd.

“The Cold War’s End, and Aftermath,” in Richard Ned Lebow, ed., Pioneer

in International Relations Theory, History, Political Philosophy and Psychology, vol. 1

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(Springer Publishers, 2017), pp. 75-84. (6,200 words)

“American Diplomacy with the Russian ‘Adversary’,” in Geoff Wiseman,

ed., Isolate or Engage: Adversarial States, US Foreign Policy, and Public Diplomacy

(Stanford University Press, 2015), pp. 24-58.

“Soviet Elites and European Integration: From Stalin to Gorbachev,” EuropeanReview of History—Revue Européene d’histoire vol. 21, no. 2 (2013), pp. 219-233.

“ ‘Merely an above-average product of the Soviet nomenklatura?’ Assessing

Leadership in the Cold War’s end,” International Politics vol. 48 (July-September

2011), pp. 607-626

“Nationalism and Post-Communist International Relations,” in Robert A.

Denemark, ed., The International Studies Encyclopedia, vol. VIII (Blackwell, 2010), pp. 5279-5301, co-authors Kate Svyatets and Azamat Zhanalin.

“A ‘Reset’ for Relations? Understanding Russian Grievances,” in Global Dialogue special issue “After Georgia,” vol. 11 (Winter-Spring, 2009), pp. 50-63.

“Old Thinking and New: Khrushchev and Gorbachev,” in Abbot Gleason, ed.,

A Companion to Russian History (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009), pp. 429-450.

“Georgia: The Ignored History,” The New York Review of Books vol. LV, no. 17

(Nov. 2008), pp. 21-23. See also online at: www.nybooks.com/articles/22011

“Lessons From the Bloc: What Russia Should Have Taught us About Iraq,”

The National Interest no. 91 (Aug.-Sept. 2007), pp. 77-82. Available online at:

http://www.nationalinterest.org/Article.aspx?id=15426

“The Collapse of the European State-Socialist Regimes,” in Bernd Greiner and

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Christian Mueller, eds., Between ‘Total War’ and ‘Small Wars’: The Societal History ofthe Cold War (Hamburg: Institut für Sozialforschung, 2007).

“Perestroika without politics: how realism misunderstands the Cold War’s end,” in Gary Goertz and Jack S. Levy, eds., Explaining War and Peace: Case Studies and Counterfactuals,” (New York and London: Routledge, 2007), pp. 211-232.

“The Sociology of New Thinking: Elites, Identity Change, and the Cold War’s End,” Journal of Cold War Studies (Spring 2005), pp. 43-80.

“Serbia and Montenegro in Crisis,” in Gorbachev and Grachev, eds., 1985-2005: Twenty Years that Changed the World (Rome: Laterza, 2005), pp. 269-281.

Articles and chapters, contd.

“Ideas and the end of the Cold War: rethinking intellectual and political change,” in Silvio Pons and Federico Romero, eds., Reinterpreting the End of the Cold War (New York and London: Frank Cass, 2005), pp. 116-136.

“The Road(s) Not Taken: Causality and Contingency in Analysis of the Cold War’s End,” in William C. Wohlforth, ed., Cold War Endgame: Oral History, Analysis, Debates (University Park: Penn State Univ. Press, 2004), pp. 243-272.

“Power, Ideas, and New Evidence on the Cold War’s End,” International Security vol. 26, no. 4 (Spring 2002), pp. 70-92.

“The Kosovo War,” in Joel Krieger, ed., The Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 474-479.

“Sources, Methods, and Competing Perspectives on the End of the Cold War,” Diplomatic History vol. 21, no. 2 (Spring, 1997), pp. 283-294.

“Internal Enemies, External Enemies: Elites, Identity, and the Tragedy of Post-Soviet Georgia,” in Michael Kraus and Ronald Liebowitz, eds., Russia and Eastern Europe After Communism (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996), pp. 207-222.

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“Assessing Soviet Strategic Defenses,” Foreign Policy no. 70 (Spring, 1988), pp. 129-149. Co-authored with Stephen Daggett.

“SOI podryvaet strategicheskuiu stabil’nost,” Mezhdunarodnaia Zhizn’ (Moscow)

no. 3, 1988, pp. 99-104.

“Eastern Europe’s Doves,” Foreign Policy no. 56 (Fall, 1984), pp. 44-60.

Review essays

“Cold War Anthropology,” Slavic Review 76: 3 (Fall 2017). Featured review article

of David H. Price, The CIA, The Pentagon, and The Growth of Dual Use Anthropology

(1,700 words).

“The End of the Cold War,” The Russian Review 76: 4, October 2017. Review of

Robert Service, The End of the Cold War, 1985-1991. (950 words)

“U.S.-Soviet Relations and the Collapse of the USSR,” featured review essay on H-Diplo (March 2017). See http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=48315

“Reviewing the Cold War,” H-Diplo roundtable Vol. XII, no. 13 (2012). Essay on Cambridge History of the Cold War, vol. III (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2011). Seealso: http://www.h-net.org/~diplo/roundtables/PDF/Roundtable-XIII-13.pdf

“Zhiznesposobnost’ gibridnykh modelei,” Iaroslavl’ Forum-Russkii

Zhurnal,July 2011, p. 9 (interview)

Review essays, contd.

“Change to Engagement in Britain’s Cold War Policy,” H-Diplo review no. 206 (22-23 December 2008). Essay reviewing Archie Brown, “The Origins of the Thatcher-Gorbachev Rapprochement,” Journal of Cold War Studies 10:3 (2008). Also available at: www.h-net.org/~diplo/reviews/PDF/English-Brown.pdf

“Power and Ideology in the Origins of Soviet Foreign Policy Change,” International History Review vol. XXVI, no. 2 (June,

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2004), pp. 421-426. Essay reviewing Matthew Ouimet, The Rise and Fall of the Brezhnev Doctrine in Soviet Foreign Policy, and James Voorhees, Dialogue Sustained: The Multilevel Peace Process and the Dartmouth Conference.

“The Revolution Within,” The Nation, 26 May 2003, pp. 29-36. Essay on William Taubman, Khrushchev: The Man and His Era, Mikhail Gorbachev, Zdenek Mlynar, Conversations with Gorbachev, and George Breslauer, Gorbachev and Yeltsin as Leaders.

“Condemned to Repetition?”, Journal of Cold War Studies vol. 4, no. 3 (summer,2002), pp. 148-151. Review of Andrew Bennet, The Rise, Fall, and Reprise of Soviet/Russian Military Interventionism.

“There Are No Happy Reformers,” The Bologna Center Journal of International

Affairs vol. 2, no. 1 (Spring, 1999), pp. 109-116. Essay reviewing Mikhail

Gorbachev and Zdenek Mlynar, Reformatori nebyvaji stastni: dialog o Perestrojce,

Prazskem jaru a socialismu.

Other reviews

Reviews also published in: Political Science Quarterly, The American Review of Politics,

The Russian Review, Slavic Review, and Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

Selected commentary and analysis of foreign and arms-control policy

“Bernie Sanders, The Foreign Policy Realist of 2016,” The Nation, 19 February 2016.

https://www.thenation.com/article/bernie-sanders-the-foreign-policy-realist-of-2016/

“Ukraine’s Threat From Within,” Los Angeles Times, 13 March 2014.

http://articles.latimes.com/2014/mar/13/opinion/la-oe-english-ukraine-neofascists-20140313

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“The International Policy Rationale for the Military Buildup on Guam and Some

Environmental Drivers,” Scientific American featured blog, April 30, 2012 (co-author Jim Haw), 2400 words. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/expeditions/usc-dornsife-scientific-diving-the-international-policy-rationale-for-the-military-buildup-on-guam-and-some-environmental-drivers/

“Soviet Radar and American Distortion,” Nuclear Times, November-December

1987 (co-author Stephen Daggett).

Commentary, contd.

“Collision in Space: The Star Wars Showdown,” The New Republic, 29 June 1987.

“Linkage Imperils Soviet Arms Talks,” The Los Angeles Times, 24 May 1987 (co-

author William E. Colby).

“Bridge Under Troubled Waters,” The New Republic, 27 April 1987.

“Star Wars May Destroy Strategic Defenses,” The New York Times, 15 February

1987 (co-author William E. Colby).

“Reagan’s ‘Peace Shield’ Can Attack Too,” The Washington Post, Outlook section,

15 February 1987.

Breaking the Deadlock: A CNS Arms Control Proposal (Washington, DC:

Committee for National Security, January, 1987)

“Why Do The Soviets Fear Star Wars?”, Newsday, 16 July 1986

“To Abandon SALT is to Blind the US,” The New York Times, 2 July 1986 (co-

author William E. Colby).

“Offensive Star Wars,” The New Republic, 24 February 1986.

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“Cold Wars,” an exchange with E.P. Thompson in The Nation, 16 November

1985.

Conference papers, panels, invited presentations

12 October, 2018. “The Real Threat in Central Europe,” invited lecture at the Policy West conference of the Pacific Council on International Policy, Beverly Hills.

8 September, 2018. “Pathologies of Demonization in Russian-American Relations,” invited lecture at the Congress of Russian Americans, San Francisco.

11 June, 2018. “Russia, the West, and the Arctic,” invited lecture at the Institute for European Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.

4 June 2018. “Misunderstanding the Cold War’s End,” invited lecture for conference on Overcoming the Cold War of the Kennan Institute-Gorbachev Foundation, Moscow.

20 May 2018. “Post-Soviet Pitfalls,” introduction for panel on the lessons for Armenia of Ukraine’s ‘Orange Revolution,” Georgia’s “Rose Revolution,” and the Mideast “Arab Spring.” USC.

6 May 2018. “Geography, Culture, and the State,” invited lecture on traditional sources of Russian foreign policy for YPO conference, Moscow, Russia.

Papers, panels, invited presentations, contd.

11 April 2018. “Constructing Arctic Threats,” presentation for conference on the Arctic of the USC-Dornsife Task Force on Global and Political Studies.

15 February 2018. “Russian Cyberwar in Context,” presentation for panel on They Hacked the Election! with Professor Greg Treverton, USC.

8 February 2018. “Whither Putin’s Russia,” invited lecture at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.

3 November 2017. “A Realistic Russia Policy Under Trump?” Invited lecture at the George Washington University-American Conservative conference on U.S. Foreign Policy in the Trump Era.

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23 September 2018. “Contending Identities.” Chair-discussant for panel at the ISA West convention, Pasadena.

27 August 2017. “Why We Get Russia Wrong.” Invited lecture at the Institute of International Studies/Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 27 August, 2017.

24 May 2017. “What Have we Learned About Post-Communist Transitions? Featured

speaker and panel chair at conference on Armenia 25 Years On, Yerevan, Armenia.

15 May 2017. “America and Russia: The Domestic Politics of International Relations,” Spoke at UCLA Colloquium on Social Theory and Comparative History (co-sponsored

by Center for European and Eurasian Studies), University of California, Los Angeles.

9 April 2017. “Lessons from Halfway,” 9 April, 2017. Introduction for Global Conference on The End of Transition, USC Institute for Armenian Studies.

7 February 2017. “Trump and Russia,” presentation for panel on Trump’s Foreign Policy of the Task Force on Global and Political Studies, USC.

29 January 2017. “Celebrity Diplomacy: Redefining Armenia’s Role in the Diaspora.” Opening speaker-moderator for conference of USC Institute for Armenian Studies.

28 October 2016. “Russia: A Renewed Enemy?” Chaired panel at World Affairs Council, San Francisco http://www.worldaffairs.org/podcast#.WE5JUHeZOu6

12-14 October 2016. “Korea: Beyond Today,” represented Russian Federation

in five scenarios of Korean crises at the Department of Strategic Wargaming,

Center for Strategic Leadership, United States Army War College, Carlisle, PA.

18 May 2016. “Reflections on the End of the Cold War,” invited lecture for MA

program in international studies at the European University of St. Petersburg, Russia.

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16 May 2016. “Changing Geopolitical Narratives on the High North in American

Specialized and Mass Media,” presentation at the International Summer School of

Karelia on Arctic and Baltic Regional Organization, Petrozavodsk, Russia.

Papers, panels, invited presentations, contd. 

12 May 2016. “Militarizing or Securitizing the Arctic? Analyses of Trends in Mass, Elite, and Expert Media,” paper presented at conference The European Union in International Affairs, VUB-Brussels, Belgium.

26 April 2016. “Almost Holy,” discussant for panel on film Krokodil Gena (Ukraine)at Skirball Cultural Center-Social Impact Media Awards.

8 April 2016. “Russia and Ukraine,” presentation for symposium Crises in CentralEurope, inaugural event for Central European Studies major, USC Dornsife College.

2 April 2016. “The True-Born Englishman,” talk on identity and nationalism at Innovate Armenia, conference of the USC Institute of Armenian Studies, Los Angeles.https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipOQZJBLwNY5_ZP1aIytSqG1blm3W9T3lFlU9AmiocgU5xzLKkEnSoAveeJiFqrD-Q/photo/AF1QipPIQ4VveWnbGlZhEtaBwKWzwQAx9ZZDSoIza6_D?key=bmRoV3NIN3dDbGRPaEhCRjlkUlpaSVJoV0g3WlpB

5 November, 2015. Participant (and co-organizer, with Gen. David Petraeus) on Global

Threats Roundtable.

4-5 August, 2015. “Russia and the Geopolitics of the Arctic,” Royal Norwegian Polar Academy-UNIS, Svalbard, Norway.

17 May 2015. “Understanding Russian Attitudes on Ukraine: Putin and His People,” Claremont-McKenna College.

23 February 2015. “What Happens After Genocide,” conversation with Thomas De Waal, USC Armenian Institute.

1 December 2014. “Russia, Ukraine, and the West,” Cappadoccia Memorial Presidential lecture, University of Montana.

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21 November, 2014. “LGBT Politics in Russia, the Former USSR and Eastern Europe,” Center for Public Diplomacy, Annenberg School, USC. Panelist for CPD conference on LGBT rights and public diplomacy.

November 10, 2014. Presentation on Berlin crises in the Cold War for special event on Tear Down This Wall: 25th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. USC German Studies.

September 27, 2014. ISA West, Pasadena CA. Chaired panel on “US Trade andForeign Policy in Eurasia.”

September 17, 2014. “Putin’s Power—Russia and Ukraine.” Featured address

for Global Café meeting of the Los Angeles World Affairs Council

Papers, panels, invited presentations, contd.

July 2, 2014: “Putin’s New World Order,” Hammer Museum Forum, Los Angeles.

Moderated by Ian Masters, co-panelist Nina Khrushcheva. https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipOQZJBLwNY5_ZP1aIytSqG1blm3W9T3lFlU9AmiocgU5xzLKkEnSoAveeJiFqrD/photo/AF1QipPaZubVHVEawqFmOXJH_gsZlxt_YDoqBt-Ejj00?key=bmRoV3NIN3dDbGRPaEhCRjlkUlpaSVJoV0g3WlpB

April 25, 2014: “Showdown in Crimea,” Pacific Council for International Policy, Los Angeles. Presentation for PCIP Spring conference, panel on Russia-Ukraine.

April 7, 2014: “Ukraine in Crisis: Revolution and Russian Intervention,” UCLA School of Law. Panel of the UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies.

March 26, 2014: “Conterfactuals in IR: Making Sense of Complexity,” panel at the annual convention of the International Studies Association, Toronto. Co-panelists Ned Lebow, Fred Chernoff, and Bruce Bueno de Mesquita.

May 20-22, 2013: European University Institute (EUI - Florence, Italy). Conference on “Socialist Visions and European Cooperation.”

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November 18, 2011: Assoc. for Slavic, East European, Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) convention, Washington, DC. Roundtable honoring the legacy of Robert C. Tucker.

October 28, 2011: Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies, Claremont-McKenna College. “Russian Foreign Policy 20 Years After the Breakup of the USSR.”

April 21, 2011: Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles: invited lecture on “Conflict and Cooperation in the Caucasus.”

March 17, 2011: International Studies Association annual convention, Montreal:

Panel on Cold War Reconsidered, paper on “Leadership and Grand Strategy.”

February 17, 2001: University of California, San Diego: symposium on

Explaining State Nonproliferation Decision-Making,” panel on “Sources of

Russian non-proliferation policy.”

December 8, 2010: Center for International Studies, USC: presentation (with paper) on “A Presumption of Guilt? Russia, Georgia, and the Western Media.”

November 19, 2010: ASEEES annual convention, discussant for panel on “Identity and Society in the formation of Contemporary Russian foreign policy.

October 13, 2010: Institute for Modern Russian Culture (USC): special seminar

“The Aftermath of the 1905 Revolution in Russian Politics.”

September 20, 2010: USC Armenian Institute, invited lecture on “Armenia Under Russian Eyes.”

September 17, 2010: ISA West convention, chaired panel on “Explaining Myths and Realities in Arms Control, Deterrence, and Nonproliferation.”

Papers, panels, invited presentations, contd.

August 20, 2010: Engaging Adversarial States, NEH-funded workshop at USC,

paper on “US Diplomacy with the Russian Adversary.”

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March 6, 2010: Princeton Univ. workshop on The End of the Cold War After Twenty Years: Reconsiderations, Retrospectives, Revisions, paper “Ideas and Revolutions in Grand Strategy.”

February 20, 2010: International Studies Association, New Orleans. Paper on “Media Bias in Portrayals of Russia’s Conflicts with Ukraine and Georgia.”

November 9, 2009: Featured address on the end of the Cold War at The Legacy of 1989 conference of the Danish Foreign Ministry, Copenhagen University; November 10, presentation on “Russia’s Afghan Experience” at the Graveyards of Empire seminar of the Danish Institute for Military Studies, Copenhagen.

May 14, 2009: Panelist for symposium on Russia and the Caucasus, Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI), Sciences Po, Paris.

November 17, 2008: Invited Lecture on “Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in the Former Yugoslavia,” California Polytechnic University, Pomona.

September 12, 2008: USC College panel Georgia on Our Minds, “Georgian Nationalism and the Origins of Separatist Conflict with Russia.”

April 30, 2008: USC Center for International Studies, paper on “Russia and Serbia: The Nationalist Background to Realpolitik.”

March 7, 2008: USC Center for International Studies, “The Prospects for Russian-American Relations After Putin (and Bush),” panel discussion with Roald Sagdeyev and Vladimir Zelman.

December 3, 2007: “Russia’s Kosovo Conundrum,” lecture at the European

Union Center of California, Scripps College

April 30, 2007: L.A. Philharmonic series “Shadow of Stalin,” discussant for

Arclight Cinema panel on film “Burnt by the Sun” (Утомлённые солнцем).

March 30, 2007: Discussant for USC Center for International Studies panel on international security and nonproliferation “Where Have All the Weapons Gone?”

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February 23, 2007: “Russian-American Relations at the Crossroads,” lecture at the Illinois World Affairs Council annual conference “Russia: Friend or Foe?”

May 2006: Institut für Sozialforschung, Hamburg (Germany). Conference on “The Societal History of the Cold War,” paper on Moscow and the Collapse of European State-Socialist Regimes.

March 2006: International Studies Association, San Diego. Chair and Discussant for panel on Nationalism after the Collapse of Communism.

Papers, panels, invited presentations, contd.

March 2006: “After Yugoslavia” symposium (USC). Served as conference

chair, presentation on Politics and Myth in the Making of Russia’s Balkan Diplomacy

(for further detail, see below under “Professional Service”).

March 2005: World Political Forum, Torino (Italy). Panel on “The Quest For

National Identity in an Epoch of Integration,” presentation on Serbia and

Montenegro in Crisis.

September 2004: American Political Science Association, Chicago. Roundtable

on “Causal Explanations and Case Studies: World War I and the End of the

Cold War.”

November 2003: American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies,

Toronto. Panel on ideas and Soviet reform, presented paper on Ideas in the Transformation of Soviet Foreign Policy.

June 2002: Joint conference of the Association for the Study of Nationalities and the Istituto per l’Europa Centro-Orientale e Balcanica at the University of Forli’ (Italy) on “Nationalism, Identity, and Regional Cooperation.” Conference paper titled A Separate Reality: The Russian Media and the Wars of Yugoslavia’s Collapse

June 2002: Conference of the Russian and Central-East European International Studies Associations, Moscow. Chaired panel on Russian-European Relations and served as discussant for panel on Russia—a New European Identity?

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June 2001: Dartmouth-Watson Center conference; paper on Methodological and Theoretical Challenges in Analyzing New Evidence on the Cold War’s End.

April 2001: Russian International Studies Association (Moscow) inaugural convention, presented paper titled Our Serbian Brethren: History and Myth in Debates Over Russian National Identity.

June 2000: The Gramsci Institute (Rome) and Fondazione Enciclopedia Italiana, conference on “The Relevance of Cold War Dynamics and Configurations in Recent International History.” Roundtable participant, main speaker on Power and Ideology inthe Cold War’s End.

September 1999: Johns Hopkins University Berlin Center, seminar on “Changes to the International System.” Panel presentation on Russia’s Place in a Changing International System.

June 1999: Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, panel presentations on Soviet Elite Expectations in 1945 and Intellectuals, Ideas, and the End of the Cold War

May 1999: SAIS-Bologna Center forum on crisis in Kosovo. Presentation on Kosovo: The Russian Perspective

Papers, panels, invited presentations, contd.

July 1996: NEH summer seminar on constitutional democracy, Princeton University. Gave presentation entitled Russia’s 1996 Presidential Elections: Uncertain Implications for Democracy

November 1994: American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. Panel on post-communist politics, paper titled Romanticism and Realism in Post-Soviet Georgia

April 1993: Mershon Center, Ohio State University. Conference on post-Soviet and post-communist change, paper titled Leaders, Intellectuals, and Nationalism in Armenia and Georgia

December 1992: Yale University conference on Cold War historiography, paper on Sources and Methods: New Research on the Cold War’s End

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July 1988: International Society of Political Psychology, discussant for panel on Psychological Factors in the U.S.-Soviet Arms Race

April 1987: American Physical Society convention, Washington, DC. Panel on “Some Peripherals to SDI,” delivered paper titled Soviet Nuclear Strategy and Responses to U.S. Strategic Defenses

May 1985: Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, panelist-discussant for seminar on Warsaw Pact Cohesion

April 1984: London School of Economics conference on “Yugoslavia: The Case for Democratic Reform,” presented paper titled The Strategic Implications of Political Reform in Post-Tito Yugoslavia

Service: University and College

Hosted Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid at USC (3 October 2018). Organized all aspects of the visit, which included a meeting with the Los Angeles diplomatic corps and a roundtable with Central European experts as well as the local Baltic community. Over 75 USC undergraduates participated in President Kaljulaid’s main address and discussion of “Cyber Challenges and Digital Solutions.”

Member, Dornsife College Chairs Task Force on Teaching Assessment (2018-2019).

Helped plan multiple events—and introduced conferences or chaired panels—of the USC Armenian Institute (2016-2018). These include two End of Transition conferences (Los Angeles and Yerevan), two Innovate Armenian conferences, and Other events from Understanding the Armenian Revolution to Celebrity Diplomacy.

Served on multiple College-level search committees, including the Turpanjian Chair in Contemporary Armenian Studies (2018-19, 2013-14), the Robert F. Erburu Chair in Ethics, Globalization and Development (2016-17, 2014-15, 2012-13), and the Robert R. Dockson Chair in Economics and International Relations (2012-13).

Service: University and College, contd.

Designed new Central European Studies major, and co-chair the USC Program in Central European Studies. Over 2016-2018 organized multiple speakers and student events, including the inaugural symposium “Crisis in Central Europe” of 8 April 2016.

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Co-chaired Dornsife Dean’s Task Force on Sustainability (2013-15). Reviewed peer institutions’ environmental studies-sustainability programs, offered recommendations to Dean Kay and his cabinet. Worked with Vice Dean Wendy Wood and Task Force co-chairs Roberta Marinelli and James Haw to organize Sustainability Speakers Series and hire the College’s first Sustainability Postdoctoral Fellow. Represented Dornsife Social Sciences for visit of delegation from the Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin.

Helped organize, chair, or moderate multiple interdisciplinary panels (2008-17) with the Center for Public Diplomacy-Annenberg, Price School of Public Policy, Viterbi School of Engineering, and USC Environmental Studies with visiting diplomats, military, and other government officials on foreign-policy, security, and environmental issues. Guests have included Gen. David Petraeus, Ambassadors Jack Matlock, Oleg Neverov and Alexandros Malias, Governor Victor Ishaev, and over two dozen others.

Helped organize Symposium on Private Security Companies (2007). Explored the implications of “Outsourcing War.” Lectures and panel discussion, presentations at a graduate IR theory seminar, and an evening screening of a documentary and follow-on panel discussion of the acclaimed documentary film Shadow Company.

Convener and Organizer of the conference After Yugoslavia: A Symposium for Scholars and Practitioners (March 30-31, 2006). This conference—sponsored by the Center for International Studies—was a national event, also open to the USC and larger academic community. Panels ranged from “The Future of Kosovo” and “War Crimes, Tribunals and Reconciliation” to “Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia in Transition” and “The Role of the EU, US and Russia.” Participant-experts included former senior ministers and ambassadors, UN officials and NGO activists, World Bank and other economists.

Lectures and panels: speaker/discussant at over 100 events, including Political Violence Initiative and SIR post-9/11 panels, Center for International Studies seminars, SIR alumni functions, Dornsife DC Program events, Office of Overseas Studies panels(some detail is included in the section above labeled “Panels and Invited Presentations”)Other USC service: Judge, USC College Undergraduate Symposium on Creative and Scholarly Work; College TA training; Thematic Options panelist; CALIS high school teachers’ training; organized and led visits to the Institute for Creative Technologies.

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Service: School of International Relations

Director, School of International Relations (acting director in 2011, Director 2013-2016) and Deputy Director (2009-2011, 2018-date) Represent SIR at the College, University levels, also national and international profile (academic conferences, policy fora, etc.) Budgeting and finance, hiring and evaluating personnel, fundraising. Responsibilities also include curriculum, new major and minor programs, study abroad (criteria, selection, credits, oversight), departmental honors and awards, progressive degrees, academic integrity; liaison (with the College deans) on joint MAs and progressive degrees, search committee diversity, etc.

As SIR Director raised over $ 600,000 for student programs. Appointed to co-Chair the Dornsife Dean’s Sustainability Initiative (distinguished speaker program, postdoctoral fellowships, etc.).

Helped organize Dornsife DC program (planning curriculum, recruiting and hiring faculty, internships, housing, etc.) over 2012-13. Work closely with Undergraduate Dean Steve Lamy and Dorsife DC Director Jeffrey Fields. Host multiple DC alumni events and meet with DC-area donors.

Director of Undergraduate Studies (2002-2010). Oversee study abroad curricula, review IR major credits, extensive advising and grading dispute/appeals cases. Major initiatives include SIR enrollment in the Muskie Fellows program and establishment of a USC study abroad program with King’s College (London) War Studies Dept.

Committees: Chair, International Relations-Spatial Analysis Search Committee (2015), Chair, International Relations Theory Search Committee (2013-15, 2007-08), Erburu Search Committee (2013-14) McCone Chair Search Committee (2005-2008, 2009-2011), Senior Initiative Search (2005-2006), SIR Director’s Advisory Committee (2003-2006, 2009-2012), POIR Steering Committee (2005-2007), Center for International Studies Advisory Board (2002, 2007), Curriculum Committee (2001-date) Graduate Admissions (2001-2002), IR-Political Science Ph.D. Merger Committee (2001-2002)

Ph.D. Advising: Have chaired eight dissertation committees, member of 28 others;Advisees placed at academic institutions (including Arizona State University, Georgia Tech, Stamford University, Wellesley College,

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USC) and US government agencies (Department of State, Department of Defense, Congressional Research Service, CIA)

Faculty Adviser for “USC Students for Barak Obama” (2007-08). Faculty Adviserfor USC Club Baseball Team (2015-present).

Service to the Profession

Co-Program Chair (with Professor Steve Lamy) for the 2004 Montreal Convention of the International Studies Association.

Grant applications reviewed for the National Endowment for the Humanities (2003-present) and the Institute for Advanced Study (2005-present)

Book manuscripts reviewed for Harvard University Press, Yale University Press, Oxford University Press, Columbia University Press, Notre Dame Univ. Press, Pennsylvania State Univ. Press, Anthem Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Polity Press

Journal articles reviewed for American Political Science Review, International Security, International Studies Quarterly, World Politics, Journal of Cold War Studies, The American Historical Review, Russian Review and International History Review

Johns Hopkins-SAIS:

International Relations Coordinator, Academic Council Secretary. Also organized and led week-long graduate student “study trips” to Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia (April 2000) and the EU-NATO (January 1999)

Allegheny College:

Computer Transition Task Force, Health Professions Advisory Committee. Also served as faculty adviser to the Model United Nations Club, the Student Honor Committee, Allegheny Ice Hockey Club

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