Russia: The Challenges of Transformation

About the Contributors

459 Contributors oleg atkov is general secretary of the World Public Forum “Dialogue of Civilizations,” vice president of Joint Stock Company “Russian Railways,” and professor at Russian State Medical University. craig calhoun is president of the Social Science Research Council and University Professor of the Social Sciences at New York University. His most recent book is Nations Matter: Culture, History, and the Cosmopolitan Dream (Routledge, 2007). He is also the editor of Robert K. Merton: Sociology of Science and Sociology as Science (Columbia University Press, 2010). timothy j. colton is chair of the Department of Government at Harvard University and author of Yeltsin: A Life (Basic Books, 2008). georgi derluguian is a historical sociologist at Northwestern University. His monograph Bourdieu’s Secret Admirer in the Caucasus (University of Chicago Press, 2005) was recognized by the American Sociological Association as among the best books in political sociology for 2005. piotr dutkiewicz is professor and director of the Centre for Governance and Public Management at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, and former director of the Institute of European and Russian Studies. 460 Contributors mikhail k. gorshkov is professor and director of the Institute of Sociology at the Russian Academy of Sciences. leonid grigoriev is senior researcher at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Sciences, and dean of the Management Department at International University. nur kirabaev is professor of philosophy at Moscow State University and vice rector of the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia. andrew c. kuchins is senior fellow and director of the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington , D.C. bobo lo is an independent scholar and consultant. His recent publications include Axis of Convenience: Moscow, Beijing and the New Geopolitics (Brookings and Chatham House, 2008) and Vladimir Putin and the Evolution of Russian Foreign Policy (Blackwell and Chatham House, 2003). roderic lyne was British ambassador to the Russian Federation from 2000 to 2004 and now works as a consultant, company director, writer, and lecturer on matters relating to Russia. vladimir popov is senior economic affairs officer for the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) and professor at the New Economic School in Moscow. alexander rahr is professor and head of the Berthold Beitz Center at the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin. He was formerly a senior analyst for the Radio Liberty Research Institute in Munich and consultant to the RAND Corporation. richard sakwa is professor of Russian and European politics at the University of Kent and an associate fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House. Contributors 461 dmitri trenin is director of the Carnegie Moscow Center and author of numerous books on Russian foreign and security policy and international relations in Eurasia. guzel ulumbekova is chairman of the board of the Association of Medical Societies for Quality (ASMOK), Russia. vladimir i. yakunin is founding president of the World Public Forum “Dialogue of Civilizations” and president of Joint Stock Company “Russian Railways.” rustem zhangozha is professor and lead research fellow at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. This page intentionally left blank ...