Alexander A. Cooley

Alexander A. Cooley

Director, Harriman Institute; Claire Tow Professor of Political Science

Barnard College; Columbia University

Central Asian Studies

1214 IAB

212-854-6213

ac210@columbia.edu

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Twitter: @CooleyOnEurasia

International relations of Eurasia, Central Asian politics, sovereignty, governance

Announcements

Susan Heuman for the Harriman Institute's Oral History Project

Wednesday, July 17, 2019

"There were some of us that were really trying to understand the Soviet Union for what it was doing and what it was trying to do and other people that saw them as the enemy forces, à la Joseph McCarthy." Russian Institute alumna Susan Heuman on studying the Soviet Union at Columbia during the 1960s. Read Heuman's interview.

Kimberly Marten Writes Definitive History of the Wagner Group

Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Kimberly Marten (Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science) published the definitive history of the Wagner Group in Post-Soviet Affairs (March 2019). The article has now been made open access by the publisher.

Russian Politics Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harriman, 2019-2021

Friday, July 12, 2019

The Harriman Institute invites applications for the Russian Politics Postdoctoral Fellowship. This fellowship is for the academic years 2019-21 and is open to scholars conducting research in Russian politics.

Charles Gati for the Harriman Institute's Oral History Project

Tuesday, July 9, 2019

"There is no pure scholarship that’s possible on contemporary political issues. We can pretend that we are fully objective and fair-minded; we can even strive to be fair and objective. But the fact of the matter is that ... we can hide but we cannot get rid of our various biases." Charles Gati for our oral history project.

Timothy Frye for the Harriman Institute's Oral History Project

Tuesday, July 2, 2019

"After three weeks in Moscow, Chernenko dies, and Gorbachev comes to power. I remember being in my little dorm room ... there was a radio on the wall, and it was on all the time ... I remember them playing the classical music and making the announcement that Gorbachev would be the one who was chosen to organize the funeral services for Chernenko." Timothy Frye for our oral history project.

Postdoc Spotlight: Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky

Friday, June 28, 2019

"While working with Ottoman records in Turkey, Jordan, and Bulgaria, what surprised me was how integral Muslim refugees from Russia were to the functioning of the late Ottoman state." Read more.

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