B.A., University of Iowa
M.Sc., London School of Economics and Political Science
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Current CV

Courses:

Comparative Civil-Military Relations  (G)

Politics and the Military  (UG)

Recent Publications:

“Tilly Tally: War-Making and State-Making in the Contemporary Third World.” International Studies Review,  Vol. 10, No 1 (Spring 2008), forthcoming (With Roxana Botea).

Putin’s ‘Historic Mission’: State-Building and the Power Ministries in the North Caucasus.”  Problems of Post-Communism, Vol. 54, No. 6 (November-December 2007), pp. 3-16.

Russia’s Power Ministries: Coercion and Commerce (Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism, Syracuse University, October 2007).

“Force and Federalism: Controlling Coercion in Federal Hybrid Regimes.” Comparative Politics, Vol, 39, No. 4 (July 2007), pp. 421-440.

“Law Enforcement and Civil Society in Russia.” Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 58, No. 2 (March 2006), pp. 193-213.

Politics and the Russian Army: Civil-Military Relations, 1689-2000 (Cambridge University Press, 2003).

Research Interests:

My research focuses on the role of state coercive organizations, such as the military and the police, in domestic politics. Additional interests include comparative state-building and comparative federalism. My geographic area of specialization is Russia and the post-Soviet region.

                                                                                                Current Research Projects:

My current project examines the politics of Russian state coercive agencies, particularly law enforcement structures, in Russia's regions. These relations have implications for Russian state-building, federalism, and democratization.