Stephen Kotkin (IPF
Group Advisor
"Combating Open
Society Threats in the Former Soviet Union") is Professor of European
and Asian
history at Princeton University, where he also
directs the Russian Studies Program. He serves on the Editorial Board
and
Trustees of Princeton University Press and on the Executive Committee
of the
Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS).
Outside Princeton, he serves on the Social Science Research
Council (SSRC) Advisory Committee and as a consultant to a number of
foundations. He has authored, co-authored, or edited nine books,
including Magnetic Mountain (1995), Armageddon Averted (2001), and
Political Corruption in
Transition: A Handbook (2002). He has been a visiting professor in
Russia
and Japan,
and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. He writes reviews and
essays
for The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times,
Financial
Times, The New Republic, and the TLS. He is also a commentator on the
BBC and
National Public Radio (NPR). His current project—“Lost in Siberia:
Dreamworlds of Eurasia”—is a study of the Ob River basin over the last
seven
centuries. He earned a PhD and MA from the University
of California at
Berkeley.
| Ivan G. Tyulin (scientific advisor for Candidate of Sciences thesis) is Professor, Doctor of Political Sciences, Minister Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and first Deputy Rector Moscow State Institute (University) of International Relations by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. |
Mikhail
Ilyin is Professor, Doctor of Political Sciences,
Chair Department of Comparative Politics at the Faculty of Political
Science of the Moscow
State Institute
(University) of International Relations by the Ministry for Foreign
Affairs of the Russian Federation, Editor-in-chief
Journal
“Polis” (Political Studies). 1997-February 2005 - President of the
Russian Association of Political Science (RAPS), at present - honorary
President of the RAPS.