Bruce Parrott, Ph.D.
Professor and Director of the Russian and Eurasian Studies Program

Expertise

Geographic Areas
Russia

Issues
arms control and disarmament | nation-building and democratization | strategic and security issues

Background and Education
Served on the American Council of Learned Societies-Social Science Research Council Joint Committee on Soviet Studies and on the board of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies; has been a consultant to the U.S. State and Defense departments; Ph.D., political -science, Columbia University

Foreign Languages
Russian

Publications
Conflict, Cleavage and Change in Central Asia and the Caucasus (1997); Democratic Changes and Authoritarian Reactions in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova (1997); Politics, Power and the Struggle for Democracy in South-East Europe (1997); The Consolidation of Democracy in East Central Europe (1997); The End of Empire? The Transformation of the U.S.S.R. in Comparative Perspective (1996); State Building and Military Force in Russia and the New States of Eurasia (1995); Russia and the New States of Eurasia: The Politics of Upheaval, co-author (1994); book chapters include "Empire and After: Russia and the Geopolitics of Eurasia in Historical Perspective" in Sino-Russian Relations in Central Asia and Beyond (forthcoming 2011); "Russia: European or Not?" in Europe Today: A Twenty-first Century Introduction (2007)