Scholars
Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine
A study of policy processes and the growth of important international relationships between the US and Ukraine, the development of new means to obtain a viable strategic partnership that takes account of international policy mechanisms that were created in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere in the post-Cold War era.
Adjunct Research Fellow, INSS-NDU
John W. Parker joined the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University in January 2010, transitioning to adjunct status in January 2013. From 1971-73, he worked for the U.S. Information Agency and was attached to the cultural exchange exhibit “R&D – USA” in the Soviet Union for all of 1972. From 1974-2010, he served in the U.S. Department of Sta...
Professor, Department of Philosophy and Social Political Sciences, Kyrgyz-Turkish University and Professor, Kyrgyz-Russian University
For more than ten years, Zhyldyz Urmanbetova has been researching democratic transition in Kygyzstan, tracing the influence of both Russia and the United States. She served as a Fulbright Scholar at the Harriman Institute of Columbia University in the 2009-2010 program year, studying this project in the context of globalization. She is the author of several monographs, including "Culture...
Independent scholar
Jennifer Wistrand graduated with a PhD in Anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis in August 2011. The foundation of her analysis is based on 22 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Azerbaijan.