Andrei Pavlovich Tsygankov (russian: Андрей Павлович Цыганков; born April 23, 1964) is a

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n-born academic and author in the fields of international relations at

San Francisco State University San Francisco State University (commonly referred to as San Francisco State, SF State and SFSU) is a public research university in San Francisco. As part of the 23-campus California State University system, the university offers 118 different ...

Early life and education

Tsygankov received his

Candidate of Sciences Candidate of Sciences (russian: кандидат наук, translit=kandidat nauk) is the first of two doctoral level scientific degrees in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States. It is formally classified as UNESCO's ISCED level 8, "d ...

degree at

Moscow State University M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...

in 1991 and after emigration a PhD from

University of Southern California , mottoeng = "Let whoever earns the palm bear it" , religious_affiliation = Nonsectarian—historically Methodist , established = , accreditation = WSCUC , type = Private research university , academic_affiliations = , endowment = $8.1 ...

in 2000.

Career

As of 2017, he has a professor at

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, where he teaches comparative Russian, and international politics in the Political Science and International Relations departments. He has been a contributor at the Pro-Russian

Valdai Discussion Club The Valdai Discussion Club is a Moscow-based think tank and discussion forum. It was established in 2004 and is named after Lake Valdai, which is located close to Veliky Novgorod, where the Club’s first meeting took place. In 2014, the managem ...

Selected publications

*''Pathways after Empire'' (2001) *''New Directions in Russian International Studies'' (2004) *''Whose World Order?'' (2004) *''Russia’s Foreign Policy'' (2006) *''Russophobia: Anti-Russian Lobby and American Foreign Policy'' (2009) *''Russia and the West from Alexander to Putin'' (2012) *''Russia's Foreign Policy: Change and Continuity in National Identity'' (2013) 5th edition (2019) * ''Routledge Handbook of Russian Foreign Policy'' (2018) Chapter 3: doi/10.4324/9781315536934-4

References

External links

Home page at San Francisco State University
Living people University of Southern California alumni Moscow State University alumni San Francisco State University faculty Russian academics Russian political scientists Russian expatriates in the United States 1964 births {{Russia-historian-stub