 | Daniel Drezner is Distinguished Professor of International Politics, a nonresident senior fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and Co-Director of the Russia and Eurasia Program at The Fletcher School. Prior to joining Fletcher, he taught at the University of Chicago and the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has previously held positions with Civic Education Project, the RAND Corporation, and the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and he has received fellowships from the German Marshall Fund of the United States, the Council on Foreign Relations, and Harvard University. He has written seven books, including All Politics is Global (2009) and Theories of International Politics and Zombies (2011), and edited three others, including The Uses and Abuses of Weaponized Interdependence (2021). He has published articles in numerous scholarly journals as well as in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Politico, and Foreign Affairs, and has been a regular contributor to Foreign Policy and The Washington Post. He received his B.A. in political economy from Williams College and an M.A. in economics and Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University. |
 | Chris Miller is Professor of International History at The Fletcher School and Co-Director of the Russia and Eurasia Program. He is the author of Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (2022), a geopolitical history of the computer chip. He has written three other books, including The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy: Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR (2016), Putinomics: Power and Money in Resurgent Russia (2018), and We Shall Be Masters: Russian Pivots to East Asia from Peter the Great to Putin (2021). He has previously served as the Associate Director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy at Yale, a lecturer at the New Economic School in Moscow, a visiting researcher at the Carnegie Moscow Center, a research associate at the Brookings Institution, and as a fellow at the German Marshall Fund's Transatlantic Academy. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. from Yale University and his B.A. in history from Harvard University. |
 | Mikhail Troitskiy is Visiting Professor and Administrator of the Russia and Eurasia Program at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He was a visiting scholar at Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies in 2024-25 and a professor of practice in Russian studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2023-24. From 2003 to 2022, he held academic and philanthropic roles in Russia, including service as dean and associate professor at MGIMO University and as deputy director and program officer at the MacArthur Foundation’s Moscow office. His research focuses on international security, conflict resolution, negotiation, Russian foreign policy, and Eurasian politics. He has published in Post-Soviet Affairs, Negotiation Journal, WIREs Climate Change, Problems of Post‑Communism, Survival, Global Policy, and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and has contributed commentary to Newsweek, The International New York Times, Fox LiveNow, CNN, NPR, Boston 7News, the BBC, ABC Australia, The Moscow Times, and other outlets. |
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 | Arik Burakovsky is Associate Director of the Center for Expanding Viewpoints in Higher Education at Tufts University. He previously served as Associate Director of the Russia and Eurasia Program and the Hitachi Center for Technology and International Affairs at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. His research interests include Russian foreign policy and political economy, soft power, public diplomacy, and international relations forecasting. Before completing his M.A. in Law and Diplomacy from The Fletcher School, Arik interned in the Public Affairs Section at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. He studied the Polish language and culture as a Boren Fellow at the University of Warsaw in Poland. He was also a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Omsk, Russia, and he served twice as Resident Director of the ROTC Project GO intensive summer Russian language program in Narva, Estonia. He has written for The Conversation, TIME, The National Interest, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and other online and print publications. Arik received his B.A. in Political Science and International Relations from the University of California, San Diego. |
