ANGELA E. STENT
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CENTER FOR EURASIAN, RUSSIAN AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES
EDMUND A. WALSH SCHOOL OF FOREIGN SERVICE
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | WASHINGTON, DC 20057
TEL.: 202.687.6080 | FAX: 202.687.5829 | E-MAIL: STENTA@GEORGETOWN.EDU
PRESENT POSITIONS
Director, Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies, Georgetown University
Professor, Department of Government and Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service,
Georgetown University
Senior Fellow (non-resident), The Brookings Institution
GOVERNMENT SERVICE
National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia, National Intelligence Council (2004-06)
Member, Office of Policy Planning, U.S. Department of State (1999-2001)
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2012-
Contributing Editor, Survival: Global Politics and Strategy
2013.
Editorial Board, Mirovaiia Ekonomika i Mezhdunarodnye Otnosheniie
2014-
Board of Trustees, The Eurasia Foundation.
2008-
Member, EUCOM Senior Advisory Group
Advises Supreme Allied Commander in Europe (previously Admiral James
Stavrides, currently General Philip Breedlove)
2006-
Intelligence Community Associate
2006-
Co-Chair, The Hewett Forum on Post-Soviet Affairs, The Brookings Institution
2004-
Member, Valdai Discussion Club
Brings international experts on Russia together with Russian political and
economic leaders, including President Putin
2001-
Board Member, Supporters of Civil Society in Russia
2001-
Editorial Board, Internationale Politik
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1999-
Editorial Board, Journal of Cold War Studies
EDUCATION
Harvard University
Ph.D., Department of Government, 1977
A.M. in Soviet Studies, 1972
London School of Economics and Political Science
MSc. with Distinction in International Relations, 1970
Cambridge University, Girton College
B.A. with Honors in Economics and History, 1969
PREVIOUS ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
2008-
Visiting Professor, Moscow State Institute of International Relations
1998-
Professor, Department of Government, Georgetown University
1985-
Visiting Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1984-87
Director, Russian Area Studies Program, Georgetown University
1982
Visiting Scholar in Soviet Studies, Center for Strategic and International
Studies
1983-98
Associate Professor, Department of Government, Georgetown University
1979-83
Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Georgetown University
1976-1979
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, College of the Holy Cross
FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS
2014
Douglas Dillon prize for the best book on the practice of American diplomacy
awarded by the American Academy of Diplomacy
2008
Fulbright Fellowship to teach at the Moscow State Institute of International
International Relations (MGIMO)
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George H. W. Bush-Axel Springer Berlin Prize Fellow, The American
Academy, Berlin
2005
Zenovia Sochor Memorial Lecture, Harvard Ukrainian Research Center
1994
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship for Research
and Writing, Program on Peace and International Cooperation
1993-94
National Council for Soviet and East European Research Fellowship
1985-89
Research Fellow, Russian Research Center, Harvard University
1987-88
National Council for Soviet and East European Research Fellowship
1986-87
German Marshall Fund Fellowship
1986
IREX/Academy of Sciences Fellowship for Research at the Institute of World
Economy and International Relations, Moscow
1985-86
Mellon Fellowship, Russian Research Center, Harvard University
1980
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Summer Fellowship for Research
in the Federal Republic of Germany
1978
Chase Prize for Ph.D. Dissertation, Harvard University
1976-77
University Consortium for World Order Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
1974
British Council Studentship for thesis research at Moscow State University
1973-74
American Association of University Women International Fellow at Harvard
1968
Travel Fellowship for Research in the U.S.S.R., Girton College
PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2015-2016
Fellow Transatlantic Academy, German Marshall Fund
of the United States
2011
Lecturer, Da Xia Forum, East China Normal University, Shanghai
2010-2011
Member, World Economic Forum’s Global Affairs Council on Europe and
Central Asia
2009-2012
Co-Chair, Carnegie Corporation Working Group on U.S-Russian Relations
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2006-2012
Member, International Advisory Board, Russia Profile
2009-2010
Member, World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Russia
2008-2009
Co-Chair, Carnegie Corporation’s Working Group on U.S. Policy toward
Russia.
2006-07
Co-Convener, U.S.-Russian “Second Track” Discussions
Brought together government and non-government officials to discuss bilateral
relations in Moscow and Washington
2005-06
Participant, World Economic Forum Scenario Planning Exercise for Russia
2025
Developed and presented scenarios for Russia at January 2006 Davos World
Economic Forum meeting
2003-09
Member, Selection Committee, Arthur Ross Book Award, Council on Foreign
Relations
2001-03
Member, Aspen Strategy Group on U.S.-Russia Dialogue
Member, Carnegie Corporation Study Group “Integrating Russia into Europe”
2001-09
Editorial Board, World Policy Journal
2000-09
Advisory Board, Women in International Security
1999-2009
Advisory Board, Faberge Arts Foundation
1995-2007
Executive Board, U.S.-Russia Business Forum
1994
Member, Committee on Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
1994-99
Executive Board, Women in International Security
1994-
Member, Council on Foreign Relations, Bertelsmann Group on the Future of
Transatlantic Relations
1993
Consultant, Cambridge Energy Research Project, Russia 2010
1992-95
Member, Advisory Board, International Science Foundation
1986-92
Member, American Young Leaders Study Group on Germany, Aspen Institute,
Berlin
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1987
Participant, Study Group on Western Policy toward Eastern Europe, East-West
Forum, New York
Member, Task Force on Soviet “New Thinking,” Institute for East-West
Security Studies, New York
1985-94
Member, Steering Committee, American Institute for Contemporary German
Studies, Washington
1985
Member, Council on Foreign Relations Study Group on Soviet-East European
Relations
1984
Participant, Shell Oil Academic Exchange Program
Worked in the Group Planning department in London, developed scenarios for
Russia
1983-84
Member, Steering Committee, Center for Strategic and International Studies’
Research Project “After Brezhnev”
1979-88
Contractor, U.S. Congress’s Office of Technology Assessment’s project,
Technology and East-West Trade
1976-77
Contractor, U.S. Department of State, Harvard Project on Soviet-West European
Interdependence
RELATED PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
1981-2001
Lecturer, U.S.I.A., Russia, Finland, France, West Germany, East Germany
1981-
Lecturer, Foreign Service Institute, Department of State
1972-75
American Correspondent, Higher Education Supplement, London Times
1972-78
Freelance Contributor, Change Magazine
Specialized in questions related to women in higher education
1977
Group Leader, Citizen Exchange Corps
Led professional exchange program for American educators visiting the U.S.S.R.
MEDIA APPEARANCES
Television: BBC, CNBC, Bloomberg, CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, VOA, ZDF, ARD, Al
Jazeera
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Radio: BBC, NPR, Bloomberg, CBS, WDR, CBC, Australian Radio
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Council on Foreign Relations
Cosmos Club
Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies
American Council on Germany
American Political Science Association
International Institute for Strategic Studies
LANGUAGES
French
German
Russian
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS
The Limits of Partnership: US-Russian Relations in the Twenty-First Century (Princeton
University Press 2014) Revised and updated paperback edition 2015.
Repairing U.S.-Russian Relations: A Long Road Ahead. Coauthored. Washington, DC:
INSS/CERES, 2009.
Rivalen des Jahrhunderts: Russland und Deutschland im neuen Europa. Ullstein: Propylaen,
2000.
Russia and Germany Reborn: Unification, The Soviet Collapse and The New Europe. Princeton,
NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999.
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Economic Relations with the Soviet Union: American and West German Perspectives. Editor
and Coauthor. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1985.
Areas of Challenge for Soviet Foreign Policy in the 1980's. Coauthor. Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 1984.
From Embargo to Ostpolitik: The Political Economy of West German-Soviet Relations, 1955-80.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
Wandel durch Handel? Die Politisch-Wirtschaftlichen Beziehungen Zwischen der
Bundesrepublik Deutschland und der Sowjetunion. Cologne: Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik,
1983.
Technology Transfer to the Soviet Union: A Challenge for the Cohesiveness of the Western
Alliance. Arbeitspapiere zur Internationalen Politik, No. 24. Europa-Union Verlag, 1983.
Soviet Energy and Western Europe. The Washington Papers, No. 90 (New York: Praeger,
1982).
East-West Technology Transfer: European Perspectives. The Washington Papers, No. 75.
Beverly Hills and London: Sage Publications, 1980.
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
“Putin’s World” in ed. Nicholas Burns and Jonathon Price, The Crisis with Russia (Washington
DC: Aspen institute 2015)
“Die russisch-deutsche Beziehungen zwischen 1992 und 2008” in ed. Heiko Pleines/HansHenning Schroeder, Laenderbericht Russland (Bonn: Bundeszentrale fuer Politische Bildung,
2010)
“U.S.-Russian Relations: The Energy Dimension,” in ed. Dick Clark, U .S.-Russia Relations:
Policy Challenges for the Congress (Washington, DC: Aspen Institute, 2010.)
“Germany-Russia Relations 1992-2009,” in eds. Kjell Engelbrekt and Bertil Nygren Russia and
Europe: Building bridges, digging trenches (London and New York: Routledge, 2010)
“An Energy Superpower? Russia and Europe,” in ed. Kurt M. Campbell and Jonathon Price, The
Global Politics of Energy (Washington, DC: The Aspen Institute, 2008)
“The Lands in Between: The New Eastern Europe in the Twenty-First Century,” in The New
Eastern Europe: Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, eds. Daniel Hamilton and Gerhard Mangott. Center
for Transatlantic relations/Austrian Institute of International Affairs, 2007.
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“Reluctant Europeans: Three Centuries of Russian Ambivalence towards the West,” in Russian
Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century and the Shadow of the Past, ed. Robert Legvold,
Columbia University Press, 2007.
“Russland,” in Handbuch zur deutschen Aussenpolitik ed. Siegmar Schmidt, Gunther Hellman,
Reinhard Wolf, (Wiesbaden: VS Verlag fuer Sozialwissenschaften, 2006)
“America and Russia: Paradoxes of Partnership,” in Russia’s Engagement with the West, eds.
Alexander Motyl, Blair Ruble and Lilia Shevtsova. New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2005.
“Germany and the Post-Soviet States” in The International Dimension of Post-Communist
Transitions in Russia and the New States of Eurasia, ed. Karen Dawisha. London: M.E. Sharpe,
1997.
“The Overburdened Partner: Germany and the Successor States,” in The Successor States to the
USSR, ed. John W. Blaney. Washington DC: Congressional Quarterly, Inc, 1995.
“Between Moscow and Bonn: East-Central Europe in Transition,” in East-Central European
Economies in Transition, Congress of the United States, Joint Economic Committee.
Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1994.
“The Return of a Great Power,” (co-authored) in Russia 2010, eds. Daniel Yergin and Thane
Gustafson. New York: Vintage Books, 1993, 1995.
“From Rapallo to Reunification,” in The Soviet Empire Reconsidered, eds. Sanford Lieberman,
David Powell, Sarah Terry, and Carol Saivetz. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994.
“Germany 1994” in The World From Washington, ed. Yoshiki Hidaka. Tokyo: 1994.
“Germany 1993” in The World From Washington, ed. Yoshiki Hidaka, Tokyo: 1993.
“Gorbachev and Europe: An Accelerated Learning Curve,” in Five Years that Shook the World,
ed. Harley Balzer. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1991.
“Technology Transfer to Eastern Europe: Paradoxes, Policies, Prospects,” in Central and
Eastern Europe and the West, ed. William E. Griffith. Boulder, Co: Westview Press, 1989.
“Economic Containment,” in Containment: Concept and Policy, eds. Terry Deibel and John
Lewis Gaddis. Washington, DC: NDU Press, 1986.
“The Federal Republic and East-West Economic Relations,” in Economic Warfare or Detente?
eds. Reinhard Rode and Hanns-Dieter Jacobsen. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1985.
“East-West Technology Transfer and the Western Alliance,” in Trade, Technology and SovietAmerican Relations, ed. Bruce Parrott. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1985.
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“East-West Economic Relations: An East-West or a West-West Problem?: in Europe and the
Superpowers, eds. Steven Bethlen and Ivan Volyges. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1985.
“Economic Strategy” in Soviet Strategy toward Western Europe, eds. Edwina Moreton and
Gerald Segal. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1984.
“Soviet Policy toward the German Democratic Republic,” in Soviet Policy in Eastern Europe,
ed. Sarah Terry. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, A Council on Foreign Relations Book,
1984.
“Intra-German Relations: The View from Bonn,” in The Federal Republic of Germany in the
1980s, ed. Robert Gerald Livingston. New York: German Information Center, 1983.
“Soviet-West German Relations: Finlandization or Normalization?” in Soviet Foreign Policy
towards Western Europe, ed. George Ginsburgs and Alvin Z. Rubinstein. New York: Praeger,
1978.
“Soviet Aid to Guinea and Nigeria: From Politics to Profit,” in Chinese and Soviet Aid to Africa,
ed. Warren Weinstein. New York: Praeger, 1975.
ARTICLES IN SCHOLARLY JOURNALS
“U.S.-Russian Relations in the Second Obama Administration”, Survival: Global Politics and
Strategy, Vol. 54, no. 6 December-January 2012-2013
“Russia and The West,” (co-authored), Survival Vol. 51, no. 2, April-May 2009
“Restoration and Revolution in Putin’s Foreign Policy,” Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 50, No. 6,
August, 2008.
“Selektive Partnerschaft,” Internationale Politik, No. 6, June 2007, pp. 94-100.
“Berlin’s Russia Challenge,” The National Interest, No. 88, March/April 2007, pp.46-51.
“America and Russia: How Close an Embrace?” World Policy Journal, Vol. XX, No. 4, Winter
2003-2004.
“Amerika i Rosiia: Partnerstvo Posle Iraka?” Pro Et Contra, Spring, 2003.
“Putin Shifts the US-Europe-Russia Balance,” Internationale Politik, (Transatlantic Edition),
1/2003, Vol. 4 (also published as “Neuer Partner Russland,” [German edition], October 2002,
and “Rossiia: Global’nyi Igrok na Mezhdunarodnoi Arene,” [Russian edition], October, 2002).
“America, Russia and Europe: A Realignment?” (coauthored) Survival, Vol. 44, No. 4, Winter
2002-03.
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“Russia: Farewell to Empire?” World Policy Journal, Fall 2002.
“Ukraine and Germany: Toward a New Partnership?” Harvard Ukrainian Studies, December
1997.
“Russia’s Election: No Turning Back,” (coauthored with Lilia Shevtsova) Foreign Policy,
Summer, 1996.
“Russia's Economic Revolution and the West,” Survival, Spring 1995.
“Ukraine's Fate,” World Policy Journal, Fall 1994.
“Women in the Post-Communist World: The Politics of Ethnicity and Identity,” World Policy
Journal, Winter 1993-1994.
“The One Germany,” Foreign Policy, No. 81, Winter 1990-91.
“Soviet Foreign Policy Before and After the Gulf War,” Japan Review of International Affairs,
Summer, 1991.
“The Soviet Union and Western Europe: Divided Continent or Common House?” The Harriman
Institute Forum, Vol. 2, No. 9, September, 1989.
“Franco-Soviet Relations from de Gaulle to Mitterrand,” French Politics and Society, Winter,
1989.
“Gorbachev and Western Europe,” Europe, January, 1987.
“East Germany's Quest for Legitimacy,” Problems of Communism, March-April, 1986.
“The U.S.S.R. and Germany,” German Politics and Society, No. 9, 1986.
“Technology Transfer in East-West Trade: The Western Alliance Studies,” AEI Foreign Policy
and Defense Review, Vol. 5, No. 2, 1985.
“Studien im Atlantischen Buendnis ueber die Ost-West Wirtschaftsbeziehungen: eine kritische
Bestandsaufnahme,” Europa-Archiv, No. 21, 1984.
“East-West Trade and Technology Transfer,” The World Today, November 1984.
“Ost-West Wirtschaftsbeziehungen und die Sicherheit des Buendnisses: Laesst sich ein neuer
Konsens finden?" in Deutsche Studien, September 1983.
“NATO's Troubles with East-West Trade” (coauthored) International Security, Vol. 8, No. 1,
Summer 1983.
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“European Premises for East-West Trade,” in The Premises of East-West Commercial Relations:
A Workshop, Sponsored by the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate and
Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress (Washington, D.C., December 1982).
“Accommodation: The U.S.S.R. and Western Europe,” The Washington Quarterly, Vol.5, No.4,
Autumn 1982.
“The USSR and Germany,” Problems of Communism, September-October, 1981.
“Technologie in den Osten? Zur Konzeption und Praxis des CoCom,” Aus Politik und
Zeitgeschichte, 30 May 1981.
“West Germany's Suedpolitik: Social Democrats and Eurocommunism,” Orbis, Vol. 23, No. 1,
Spring 1979.
“The Soviet Union and the Nigerian Civil War,” Issue: A Quarterly Journal of Africanist
Opinion, Vol. 11, No. 2, Summer 1973.
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