CEPA Workshop - The Dogs of War: Function and Dysfunction in Russia's Military Elite

Mathieu Boulègue is a Non-resident Senior Fellow with the Transatlantic Defense and Security Program at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA).

Mathieu is a freelance researcher and consultant in international conflict and security affairs, with a focus on the Former Soviet Union. In his research, he focuses on Russian foreign policy and military affairs, Ukraine, Russia-NATO relations and Transatlantic security, and Russia-China defense and security relations, as well as military-security issues in the Arctic. He is a Consulting Fellow with the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House – The Royal Institute of International Affairs. Mathieu also works as Associate Director with Audere International, a leading commercial intelligence and investigations company.

Maria Domańska, Ph.D., was a Visiting Fellow with the Democratic Resilience program at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA).

Domańska is a senior fellow at the Warsaw-based Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW). She specializes in Russian domestic politics, including formal and informal aspects of the Russian political system, state propaganda, politics of memory, domestic determinants of Russia’s foreign policy, and political emigration originating from Russia.

Between 2006 and 2015, she was a career diplomat in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, where she worked in the Eastern Policy Department and in diplomatic posts in Belarus and Russia. For three years, she served as the head of the Political Section in the Polish Embassy in Moscow.

Pavel Luzin is a Non-resident Senior Fellow with the Democratic Resilience Program at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). Luzin holds a PhD in international relations (IMEMO, 2012).

He is also a visiting scholar at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a senior fellow at the Jamestown Foundation. Dr. Luzin is a contributor to the Foreign Policy Research Institute and to the Riddle Russia. He focuses on Russia’s foreign policy and defense, space policy, and global security issues. In 2017–2018, he was a consultant on the issues of the armed forces, law enforcement agencies, and the defense industry for Alexei Navalny’s presidential campaign in Russia. From 2016–2018, he was a consultant on Russia’s domestic politics for the “Nations in Transit” project at Freedom House. In 2013–2014, Pavel Luzin was a research fellow at IMEMO. In 2013, he was an assistant to the editor-in-chief of the Security Index journal at the PIR Center. Dr. Luzin was also a lecturer and senior lecturer at Perm State University in 2010–2017, a senior lecturer at Perm campus of the Higher School of Economics in 2011–2013, and a visiting assistant professor there in 2018–2019.

Dr. Pavel K. Baev is a Research Professor at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO). He is also a Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Brookings Institution (Washington DC) and a Senior Research Associate at the Institut Francias des Relations Internationales (IFRI, Paris).

After receiving his PhD in International Relations from the Institute of USA and Canada, Moscow in 1988, he worked in the newly created Institute of Europe, Moscow until October 1992, when he joined PRIO. In 1995-2001 he was a co-editor of Security Dialogue, a quarterly policy-oriented journal produced at PRIO; in 1998-2004, he was a
member of PRIO Board. He held the NATO Democratic Institutions Fellowship for 1994-1996.

His research on Russian policy in the Middle East is supported by the Norwegian Foreign Ministry and Defense Ministry. His other research interests include the transformation of the Russian military; the energy and security dimensions of the Russian-European relations; the development of Russia-China strategic partnership; and post-Soviet conflict management in the Caucasus and the greater Caspian area.

Dr. Ofer Fridman joined King’s in 2016, after completing his PhD at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Reading.

Ofer’s research focuses on the intersection between strategic communications, military thinking and contemporary conflicts, including information confrontations, with particular focus on Russia.
Ofer is member of the Canadian Network on Information and Security (CANIS) at the University of Calgary, and member of the editorial board at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT).

Dmitry Gorenburg is an expert on security issues in the former Soviet Union, the Russian military, Russian foreign policy, and ethnic politics and identity. His recent research has focused on decision-making processes in the senior Russian leadership, Russia’s relationship with China, Russian naval strategy and Russian influence operations.

Gorenburg is author of "Nationalism for the Masses: Minority Ethnic Mobilization in the Russian Federation" (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and has been published in journals such as World Politics and Post-Soviet Affairs. In addition to his role at CNA, he currently serves as editor of the journal Problems of Post-Communism and is an associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University.

Gorenburg previously served as executive director of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES).

Dr. Margarete Klein is the Head of the Research Division for Eastern Europe and Eurasia at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) in Berlin.

She specializes in Russian foreign, security, and military policy, with a focus on Russia's relations with NATO, and military reforms. Dr. Klein has been with SWP since 2008, serving as Deputy Head of the Research Division from 2016 to 2018. She has also held positions as a Robert Bosch Public Policy Fellow at the Transatlantic Academy in Washington, D.C., and as an Assistant Professor at the University of Regensburg.

Her academic background includes a doctorate in political science from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Dr. Klein has authored numerous publications on Russian security and defense policy, including analyses of Russia's military involvement in Ukraine and its implications for European security.

Janis Kluge is a Senior Associate at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin, Germany. He holds a PhD in Economics from Witten/Herdecke University. His research focuses on Russia’s economic development, domestic policy, and sanctions.

Roger Reese received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas in 1990 and joined the Texas A&M History Department that same year. Dr. Reese specializes in Soviet social history, with a particular focus on the social history of the Imperial and Soviet Russian militaries.

Dr. Reese has written five books on the Russian and Soviet military and won the Moncado prize from the Society for Military History for an outstanding article in military history and the Tomlinson Book Prize from the World War One Historical Association for his book on the Russian Imperial Army. His current research focus is on issues that span the divide between Russian and Soviet military history.

David Rivera earned his A.B. in Russian and Soviet Studies from Harvard and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. His teaching and research interests include both international relations and comparative politics, with special interests in the international politics of Eurasia, post-communist democratization, and the composition of the Russian elite. From 1994-1996 Rivera served as director of the Harvard Russian Institute of International Affairs in Moscow.

He has authored or co-authored articles in Problems of Post-Communism, Perspectives on Politics, Political Science Quarterly, Post-Soviet Affairs, Politicheskie issledovaniya [Political Research], Mir i Politika [The World and Politics], Obozrevatel’-Observer, and Sotsial’no-gumanitarnyi znaniya.

Maria Snegovaya is a senior fellow for Russia and Eurasia with the Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and a postdoctoral fellow in Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service. She studies Russia’s domestic and foreign policy, as well as democratic backsliding in post-communist Europe and the tactics used by Russian actors and proxies who exploit these dynamics in the region.

Her analyses have been published in various policy and peer-reviewed journals. Her research and commentary have also appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, The Economist, and Foreign Policy. Throughout her career she has collaborated with multiple U.S. research centers and think tanks such as Center for a New American Security and Center for European Policy Analysis. Snegovaya holds a PhD in political science from Columbia University.

Julian Waller is a part-time faculty member in the Department of Political Science and teaches Russian Politics. He is also an Associate Research Analyst at the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA Corporation), a federally funded research and development center, in CNA's Russia Studies Program. In addition, he holds affiliations with the Elliott School of International Affairs' Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies and Illiberalism Studies Program.

Professor Waller is an academic researcher and applied political analyst of comparative authoritarian politics, strategic decision-making in authoritarian states, political-military affairs in Eurasia, and ideological illiberalism in Europe, Eurasia, and North America.