Allen Lynch

al4u@virginia.edu
Phone:434-924-3033

(Ph.D., Columbia University), Hugh S. & Winifred B. Cumming Memorial Chair in International Affairs and Director of the Center for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Virginia
Field: International Relations (Russian/Soviet Foreign Policy). His current research interests include Russian foreign policy, Russian politics in comparative perspective, and relationships between international order and political development. In 2006, he received an All-University Teaching Award. Courses offered include: Russian Foreign Policy, Russian Politics, American-Russian Relations, Domestic Politics & American Foreign Policy. Books and monographs include: HOW RUSSIA IS NOT RULED: REFLECTIONS ON RUSSIAN POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT (Cambridge University Press, 2005), DOES RUSSIA HAVE A DEMOCRATIC FUTURE? (Foreign Policy Association, 1997), EUROPE FROM THE BALKANS TO THE URALS: THE DISINTEGRATION OF YUGOSLAVIA & THE USSR & INTERNATIONAL POLTICS (Oxford University Press/Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, 1996), THE COLD WAR IS OVER?AGAIN (Westview Press, 1992), POLITICAL AND MILITARY IMPLICATIONS OF THE NUCLEAR WINTER THEORY (Institute for East-West Security Studies, 1988), and THE SOVIET STUDY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (Cambridge University Press, 1987), which received the Marshall D. Shulman Award of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. His articles have appeared in FOREIGN AFFAIRS, FOREIGN POLICY, EUROPE-ASIA STUDIES, REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, EUROPA-ARCHIV (Bonn), PRO ET CONTRA (Moscow), CRITIQUES INTERNATIONALES (Paris), INTERNATIONALE POLITIK (Berlin), SPETTATORE INTERNAZIONALE (Rome), BULLETIN OF THE ATOMIC SCIENTISTS, THE AMERICAN INTEREST, SPRAWY MIEDZYNARODOWY (Warsaw), ARMS CONTROL TODAY, JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS & WORLD ECONOMY (Shanghai), etc. In 2005, he was Visiting Scholar at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris; in 2001, he was Visiting Professor at the JFK Institute for North American Studies, Free University of Berlin as well as Visiting Scholar at the Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Auswaertige Politik, Berlin; in 1993-1994, he was Visiting Scholar at the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute, Munich; in 1981-1982, he was Albert Gallatin Fellow in International Affairs at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales, Geneva. Between 1993-2006, he raised $1.3 million in Russian and East European Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships; in 1997, he received the Kleinhans Award for Distinguished Service. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Foreign Policy Association.