International Policy Fellowships

  Advisor afilliation

Princeton University
 
  Working group fellows

Liliana Proskuryakova
Marina Sokolova
Pavel Bayov
Tetyana Kovtun
 
  Recent Publications

Political Corruption in Transition: A Sceptic's Handbook

Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the Modern World

Steeltown, USSR: Soviet Society in the Gorbachev Era

Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000

Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism As a Civilization

Stephen Kotkin
Senior Advisor to the Combating Open Society Threats working group

Short biography:

Stephen Kotkin 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.

  2005 Working Groups

2005 Working Group Summary
Wider Europe
Open Muslim Societies
Open Society Threats
Combating Organized Crime
Transparency and Accountability
Higher Education Reform
Public Health and Roma
Policymaking in Transition
 
  2006 Working Groups

2006 Working Group Summary
Wider Europe
Open Muslim Societies
Open Society Threats
Resource Curse
Roma Exclusion
Open Information Policy


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