Lilia Shevtsova is a Kremlinology

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 expert and currently serves as a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

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Biography

Shevtsova received B.A.

Bachelor of Arts

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 and M.A.

Master of Arts (postgraduate)

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 in history

History

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 and journalism

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 from Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1971. She also received Ph.D.

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 in political science

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 from the Academy of Social Sciences of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

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 (the highest educational establishment of the CPSU, which prepared theoretical workers for Party institutions) in 1976. She served as director of the Center for Political Studies in Moscow

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, and as deputy director of the Moscow Institute of International Economic and Political Studies.

Influence

In the 2008 Top 100 Public Intellectuals Poll she was ranked 36.
She writes for Foreign Policy

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 magazine. Her areas of expertise include: Armenia

Armenia

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, Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan

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, Caspian

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, Chechnya

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, Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe

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, Georgia

Georgia (country)

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, Kosovo

Kosovo

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, Political reform

Political Reform

The Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia supports the promotion of a democratically governed Saudi Arabia. Due to its influence on an estimated 1.2 billion Muslims around the world, and its location with relation to the world's oil market, The Center believes that "Saudi Arabia...

, Russia

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, Caucasus

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, Politics of Russia

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, and Ukraine

Ukraine

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External links

• The Case for Restraint November - December 2007 issue of The American Interest

See also

• Kremlinology
  Kremlinology
  Kremlinology is the study and analysis of Soviet politics and policies based on efforts to understand the inner workings of an opaque central government. The term is named after the Kremlin, the seat of the Russian/Soviet government. Kremlinologist refers to academic, media, and commentary experts...
  
  
• Soviet–United States relations
  Soviet–United States relations
  The relations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics succeed the relations between the Russian Empire and the United States and predate the post-Soviet Russo-United States relations . Full diplomatic relations between the two countries were established late due to...
  
  
• Russo–United States relations
• Economy of the Soviet Union
  Economy of the Soviet Union
  The economy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was based on a system of state ownership of the means of production, collective farming, industrial manufacturing and centralized administrative planning...
  
  
• Economy of Russia
  Economy of Russia
  The economy of Russia is the eleventh largest economy in the world by nominal value and the sixth largest by purchasing power parity . Russia has an abundance of natural gas, oil, coal, and precious metals...
  
  
• Russian studies
  Russian Studies
  Russian studies is a field of study first developed during the Cold War. It is an interdisciplinary field crossing history and language studies. It is closely related to Soviet and Communist studies...
  
  
• Cold War
  Cold War
  The Cold War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States...