Dmitry P. Gorenburg, Ph.D.

Expertise

• Russia
• Central Asia and the Caucasus
• Eastern Europe
• Military reform
• Regional security
• Ethnic conflict

Dmitry P. Gorenburg, Ph.D. is a research scientist with CNA Strategic Studies. His areas of expertise include security issues, military affairs, and ethnic politics in Russia, Eurasia, and Eastern Europe. He has published numerous articles on these topics in policy publications such as Current History and in academic journals such as World Politics and Post-Soviet Affairs. Gorenburg is also editor of the journals Problems of Post-Communism and Russian Politics and Law and an associate at Harvard University's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. He has served as a consultant on Russian military and security issues for various agencies of the U.S. government and on ethnic and minority issues for the European Center for Minority Issues.

Recent Work: Russian military reform; Caspian regional security; Russian leadership politics under Vladimir Putin; the state of the Russian Navy; the role of the Russian Navy in 2008 Russia-Georgia War; maritime threats to Azerbaijan; Black Sea security issues.

Previous Position: Executive Director, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies; Lecturer in Government, Harvard University.

Education: Ph.D. in Government, Harvard University; B.A. in Public and International Affairs, Princeton University.

Languages: Russian, French, Belarusian, and Ukrainian

Web log: Russian Military Reform, which tracks developments in the Russian military.

Publications of Interest:

• “The Unexpectedly Underwhelming Role of Ethnicity in Russian Politics, 1991-2011” (with Elise Giuliano), 2012, Demokratizatsiya 20(2): 175-188.
• “An Interactive Planning Approach to Shaping U.S.-Russian Relations,” PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo #172, September 2011.
• “US-Russian Cooperation in the Caspian: An Opportunity Worth Pursuing,” PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo #136, March 2011.
• “Russia’s State Armaments Program 2020: Is the Third Time the Charm for Military Modernization?” PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo #125, October 2010.
• “Russia’s New Model Army: The Ongoing Radical Reform of the Russian Military.” PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo #78, September 2009.
• “Russian Naval Deployments: A Return to Global Power Projection or a Temporary Blip?” PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo #57, April 2009.
• “The Causes and Consequences of Beslan.” Political Geography 28, no. 1 (January 2009).
• “The Russian Black Sea Fleet after the Georgia War.” PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo #48, December 2008.
• “Has the Russian Navy Turned a Corner? Recent Trends in Russian Shipbuilding and Naval Deployments.” PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo #23, September 2008.
• “Russia Confronts Radical Islam.” Current History (October 2006).
• Nationalism for the Masses: Minority Ethnic Mobilization in the Russian Federation. Cambridge University Press, 2003.