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Brian Taylor
Associate Professor, Political Science
Director, Center for European Studies

Brian D. Taylor is an associate professor of political science in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University.  Taylor is the author of Politics and the Russian Army: Civil-Military Relations, 1689-2000 (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and State Building in Putin’s Russia: Policing and Coercion After Communism (Cambridge University Press, 2011).  He also has published monographs, book chapters, and articles in multiple journals, including Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Europe-Asia Studies, Problems of Post-Communism, and International Studies Review. Taylor received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a M.Sc. from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a B.A. from the University of Iowa.  His research focuses on the role of state coercive agencies, including the military and the police, in domestic politics, particularly in Russia.

Havva Karakas-Keles
Assistant Director, Center for European Studies

Havva Karakas Keles is Assistant Director of the Moynihan European Research Centers at the Maxwell School. She received her B.A. degree from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey in 2000. She holds an M.A. in International Relations and another M.A. in Political Science. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Political Science Department at Syracuse University. Funded by a National Science Foundation grant, her research centers on political leadership, foreign policy decision-making and the linkages between leadership styles and institutional constraints. Her work involves a systematic comparison of prime ministerial management of foreign policy-making processes under different cabinet arrangements in parliamentary democracies. She carried out archival research in the Parliamentary Archives in Westminster and National Archives in Kew in London, UK; Federal Archives in Koblenz and the State Library in Berlin, Germany; and State Archives in Jerusalem, Israel. She currently holds a David C. McClelland Fellowship granted by Hay Group’s McClelland Center for Research and Innovation.

Olivia Marie Knodt
Masters in Public Administration and Masters in Public Policy
Graduate Assistant, Center for European Studies and European Union Center
Atlantis Transatlantic Program


Raymond Babu Kaniu
Master of International Relations and Masters in Public Policy
Graduate Assistant, Center for European Studies and European Union Center
Atlantis Transatlantic Program 


 

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