SPEAKERS

ROBERT H LEGVOLD
Professor, Political Science
Columbia University

Robert Legvold is the Marshall Shulman Professor Of Political Science at Columbia University.  He earned a PhD from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1967.  Dr. Legvold is a member of Executive Committee of The Harriman Institute. He specializes in the foreign policy of the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet states.  His primary interest is the international relations of the post-Soviet region and their impact on the international politics of East Asia and Western Europe.   His research Interests include the foreign policies of the post-Soviet states and of the major powers toward the post-Soviet space, the history of Soviet foreign policy, and the new historiography of the Cold War

From 1978-1984, Dr. Legvold was the Director of Soviet Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and from 1984-1993 he was the Associate Director, then Director of the Harriman Institute.

His most recent books include:

• Russian Foreign Policy in the 21st Century and the Shadow of the Past (Columbia University Press, 2007)
• with Bruno Coppieters, Statehood and Security: Georgia after the Rose Revolution (The MIT Press, 2005)
• with Celeste Wallander, Swords and Sustenance: The Economics of National Security in Belarus and Ukraine (The MIT Press, 2004)
• Thinking Strategically: The Major Powers, Kazakhstan and the Central Asian Nexus (The MIT Press, 2002)
• with Sherman Garnett, Belarus at the Crossroads (The Carnegie Endowment,1999)
• with Alexei Arbatov and Karl Kaiser, Russian Security and the Euro-Atlantic Region (M.E. Sharpe, 1999)
• with Timothy Colton, he co-edited After the Soviet Union: From Empire to Nations (Norton, 1992)

Dr. Legvold's  recent essays include:

• “The Role of Multilateralism in Russian Foreign Policy,” in Stina Torjesen, ed., The Multilateral Dimension in Russian Foreign Policy (2007)
• “U.S.-Russian Relations: An American Perspective,” Russia in Global Affairs, October-December 2006
• "Clinton's Foreign Policy and the Revolution in the East," in Todd G. Shields, et. al., eds., The Clinton Riddle, (2004)
• "All the Way: Crafting a U.S.-Russian Alliance," The National Interest, Winter 2002-2003
• "Russia's Unformed Foreign Policy," Foreign Affairs, September-October 2001.