Presidential Dream Course Podcasts
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008 Prof. Stephen E. Hanson, University of Washington |
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Stephen E. Hanson is Boeing International Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Director of the Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies at the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. He is the author of Time and Revolution: Marxism and the Design of Soviet Institutions (University of North Carolina Press, 1997), winner of the 1998 Wayne S. Vucinich book award from the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. Since 2001, he has served on the Executive Committee of the Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS). His forthcoming book with Cambridge University Press is entitled Ideology, Uncertainty, and Democracy: Party Formation in Third Republic France, Weimar Germany, and Post-Soviet Russia. |
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OCTOBER 14, 2008 Prof. Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, Miami University (Ohio) |
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| Gulnaz Sharafutdinova is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Miami University. In between receiving her graduate degrees from George Washington University, she worked as a senior officer in the Foreign Affairs Office of the President of the Republic of Tatarstan. Her current research focuses on political competition and institutional performance in Russia’s regions. |  |
NOVEMBER 18, 2008 Prof. Archie Brown, Oxford University | |
| Archie Brown is Emeritus Professor of Politics at Oxford University after teaching for 34 years at St. Antony’s College. During his career he was an active advisor to the British government on relations with the Soviet Union. In 2005 he was appointed CMG (Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George) in the Queen's Birthday Honours list for “for services to UK-Russian relations and to the study of political science and international affairs.” His principal research interests are the Gorbachev era, the evolution of Communism, the political transformation of the Soviet system, leadership politics (including the British case), post-Soviet Russian politics, the comparative study of transitions from authoritarian rule, and democratization. His book, The Rise and Fall of Communism, will be published in New York by Ecco (HarperCollins) in 2009. |  |
DECEMBER 2, 2008 Dr. Robert Orttung, Jefferson Institute |
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| Robert Orttung is a senior fellow at the Jefferson Institute, visiting scholar at the Center for Security Studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, and co-editor of the Russian Analytical Digest. Previously he worked at American University’s Terrorism, Transnational Crime, and Corruption Center, the EastWest Institute, and the Open Media Research Institute.
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