Japanese Association for Comparative Economic Studies. He has taught part-time at Kanagawa University (Japan), Keio University (Japan) and Rikkyo University (Japan) and conducted research as a Visiting Associate Professor at the Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University. His research interests are in the fields of international economics, international economic relations, comparative economic systems and international education.
Petteri Lalu, Doctor of Military Science, Adjunct Professor, Lieutenant colonel (ret.), is a former military professor and the former head of the Finnish National Defence University’s Russian Art of War Group. He has served as a commissioned officer in the Finnish Defence Forces 1990–2020. His military experience includes several positions in Ground Based Air Defence, Military Intelligence, Strategic Research and Russian Defence Studies. Lalu’s research interests include the Russian Art of War and Russian Military Politics.
Satoshi Mizobata is Professor and Director at the University of Kyoto, Kyoto Institute of Economic Research. His research areas are comparative studies in economic systems, corporate governance and business organisation and the Russian and East European economies, focusing on the enterprises and market structure. He is editor of The Journal of Comparative Economic Studies in Japan and member of the Executive Committee of European Association for Comparative Economic Studies. His recent works include the following: S. Mizobata and K. Yagi, Melting Boundaries: Institutional Transformation in the Wider Europe (Kyoto University Press, 2008); S. Mizobata, Diverging and harmonising corporate governance in Russia, in J. Pickles (ed.), State and Society in Post-socialist Economies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008); S. Mizobata, S. Rosefielde and M. Kuboniwa, Two Asias: The Emerging Postcrisis Divide (World Scientific, 2012); S. Mizobata and M. Yoshii, Restructuring of the higher educational system in Japan, in J. C. Brada, W. Bienkowski and M. Kuboniwa (eds.), International Perspectives on Financing Higher Education (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015); and others.
Susanne Oxenstierna holds a Doctorate in Economics and is the Deputy Research Director at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI). She started her research on the Soviet, later Russian, economy in the 1980s and has specialised in comparative economic systems, institutional economics, labour market, public finance and, after she came to FOI in 2009, in defence economics. In the 1990s and 2000s, she worked as a resident advisor to the Russian Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Economic Development for 7 years and participated in many other technical assistance projects for Russia and Eastern Europe. She has published widely and edited the Routledge volumes Russian Energy and Security up to 2030 (2014), The Challenges for Russia’s Politicized Economic System (2015) and The Russian Economy under Putin (2019).
Gudrun Persson is Director of the Russian and Eurasia Studies Programme at the Swedish Defence Research Agency, FOI, and Associate Professor at the Department of Slavic Studies, Stockholm University. She focuses on Russian foreign policy and Russian military strategic thought. She delivers lectures regularly at the Stockholm University and Uppsala University and has published widely on Russian affairs, including four monographs. She is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences and holds a Ph.D. in Government from the LSE, London. Her latest publications include the following: G. Persson, Conflicts and contradictions: Military relations in the Post-Soviet Space, in A. Moshes and A. Racz (eds.), What Has Remained of the USSR — Exploring the Erosion of the Post-Soviet Space (FIIA, Helsinki 2019); G. Persson (ed.), Russian Military Capability in a Ten-Year Perspective – 2016 (2016); and G. Persson, Learning from Foreign Wars: Russian Military Thinking 1859–1873 (2013).
Steven Rosefielde is Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the Harvard University and is a member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (RAEN). He has taught in Russia, China, Japan and Thailand. His most recent publications include the following: S. Rosefielde, Democracy and Its Elected Enemies: The West’s Paralysis, Crisis and Decline (Cambridge University Press, 2013); S. Rosefielde and R. W. Pfouts, Inclusive Economic Theory (World Scientific Publishers, 2014); S. Rosefielde and Q. Mills, Global Economic Turmoil and the Public Good (World Scientific Publishers, 2015); S. Rosefielde and B. Dallago, Transformation and Crisis in Central and Eastern Europe: Challenges and Prospects (Routledge, 2016); S. Rosefielde, Kremlin Strikes Back: Russia and the West after Crimea’s Annexation (Cambridge University Press, 2017); S. Rosefielde and Q. Mills, The Trump Phenomenon and Future of US Foreign Policy (World Scientific Publishers, 2016); S. Rosefielde, Trump’s Populist America (World Scientific Publishers, 2017); and S. Rosefielde and J. Leightner, China’s Market Communism: Challenges, Dilemmas, Solutions (Routledge, 2017).
Madina Rubly received her M.A. in Global Affairs from Rice University and received special recognition for her capstone project titled, “Russia’s Nuclear Modernization: A Quest for Nonproliferation”. This project assessed changes in Russia’s foreign policy, nuclear weapons production and implications of a nuclear arms race, compliance with international non-proliferation treaties, overcoming barriers to non-proliferation, competition in both cyber and outer-space, and ultimately examines Russian and American perceptions on strategic challenges in the post-Cold War world.
Rubly has co-authored articles and contributed to several books and policy reports focused on the transformation of the European political landscape, Sino-Russian relations and the security environment in the MENA region and Central Asia. Her areas of expertise include the US–Russia–China relations, energy and geopolitics, nuclear security, cybersecurity, new technologies, counterterrorism, risk management and crisis management. Her most recent article is Russian Weapons in Turkey: A Trojan Horse? (Georgetown University Walsh School of Foreign Service, March 2020). Rubly has studied and worked in Almaty and Moscow, St. Petersburg, San Diego, Washington D.C. and Houston. She is a member of the James Baker’s Institute for Public Policy and the World Institute for Nuclear Security.
Andrei P. Tsygankov is Professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the San Francisco State University. Tsygankov is a contributor to both Western and Russian academia. In the West, he co-edited collective projects, most recently, The Routledge Handbook of Russian Foreign Policy (2018). His published books include Russia’s Foreign Policy (five editions since 2006), Russophobia (2009, also published in Russia), Russia and the West from Alexander to Putin (2012, also published in China), The Strong State in Russia (2014), The Dark Double (2019) and Russia and America (2019), as well as many journal articles. In Russia, his best known books are Modern Political Regimes (1996), Russian Science of International Relations (2005, co-edited with Pavel Tsygankov, also published in Germany and China) and Russian International Theory (two editions since 2013). Tsygankov is a member of Valdai Club. He has delivered talks at various international forums, consulted various publishers and state agencies and served as Program Chair of the International Studies Association (ISA), 2006–2007. ISA has over 6,000 members in North America and around the world and is the largest scholarly association in this field.
Judy Twigg is a Professor of Political Science at Virginia Commonwealth University, where she teaches courses on global health, international political economy and Russian politics. She is also a Senior Associate (non-resident) with the Russia & Eurasia Program of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC; consultant for the Independent Evaluation Group of the World Bank; consultant for the Office of Verification and Evaluation of the Inter-American Development Bank and Adjunct Professor at the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies, Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. Twigg’s works focus on issues of health, human capital and health systems reform in Eurasia as well as evaluations of human development and public sector management development assistance projects globally. She has performed extensive programme evaluations on health sector reforms and HIV/AIDS interventions based on the field work in Russia, the Kyrgyz Republic, Macedonia and Lesotho. She has been a consultant for John Snow, Inc., UNICEF, the Eurasia Foundation and the Social Science Research Council. Her
