YUVAL WEBER, PH.D Curriculum Vitae
Kennan Institute Associate Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies
Email: yuvalweber@gmail.com, weber@dmgs.org, yuval_weber@fas.harvard.edu
(USA): +1-214-264-5451| Skype: yuval.weber | (RUS): +7-968-681-34-52

Current Affiliations
The Daniel Morgan Graduate School
Kennan Institute Associate Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies 2018-present
Kennan Institute Fellow 2017-2018
Woodrow Wilson Center
Global Fellow 2017-2019
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
Center Associate 2017-2020
National Research University – Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia)
Assistant Professor, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs 2014-present
Previous Affiliations
Government Department, Harvard University 2016-2017
Visiting Assistant Professor
The Carnegie Moscow Center, Moscow, Russia
Nonresident Research Associate 2014-2016
Visiting Research Fellow 2012-2013
New Economic School (Rossiskaya Ekonomicheskaya Shkola), Moscow, Russia
Visiting Professor, NES-HSE joint baccalaureate program 2012-2014
Courses Taught
Russian Politics and Statecraft – BA and MA
Russian Grand Strategy and Foreign Policy – MA
Politics and Economics of Central Asia and the Caucasus – BA and MA
Globalized Eurasia – BA and MA
International Relations Theory – BA
Politics and Economics of Energy – MA
War and Integration in Eurasia – BA and MA
Research Methods for the Social Sciences – MA
Education
Ph.D in GovernmentUniversity of Texas-Austin 2008-2014
International Relations (Foreign Policy), Comparative Politics (Political Economy)
“Petropolitics and Foreign Policy: Fiscal and Institutional Origins of Soviet and
Russian Foreign Policy, 1964-2012”
University of Chicago Class of 2006
MA in International Relations, Division of Social Sciences
Specializations: International Relations Theory, Foreign Policy
University of Texas-Austin Class of 2004
BA in Government
BA in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
BA in Russian Language and Literature
BA in Czech Language and Literature
BA in Plan II (multi-disciplinary Honors program)
Monographs
Designed to Fail: Patterns in Russian Economic Reform, 1861-2018. Agenda Publishing/Columbia University Press. Under contract. Estimated completion June 2018.
Failing to Change the Rules: Liberal and Illiberal Sources of Dissatisfaction in International Politics. Manuscript under process.
Russian Hong Kong: The Kuril Islands and Security in East Asia. With Dmitri Trenin. Washington, DC and Moscow: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. 2013. English: http://carnegieendowment.org/files/russia_pacific_future_upd.pdf
Russian: http://carnegieendowment.org/files/WP_VeberTrenin_web_RUS.pdf
Book Chapters
“Khokkeynaya Diplomatiya / Hockey Diplomacy,” in Ledeneva, AV (Ed), (2018). The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality, Volume 2. London: UCL Press. With Yoshiko Herrera, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“Petropolitics: Energy Resources and Russian Foreign Policy,” in Tsygankov, AP (Ed), (2018). The Routledge Handbook of Russian Foreign Policy. London: Routledge.
“The Juiciest Fruit Left on the Vine: Ukraine as a Bargaining Failure,” in Soroka, G, and Stepniewski, T (Eds), (2018). Ukraine After Maidan: Revisiting Domestic and Regional Security. Hannover: Ibedem-Verlag.
Articles
“What Can Russia Teach Us about Change? Status-Seeking as a Catalyst for Transformation in International Politics” International Studies Review (2018). Advance preprint available at https://doi.org/10.1093/isr/viy024.
“Running in Place: The Latest Round of Russian Economic Modernization”. Russia Political Economy Project, Foreign Policy Research Institute. March 2018. https://www.fpri.org/article/2018/03/running-place-latest-round-russian-economic-modernization/.
“The Roots and Future of Putin’s Political System” Aspenia Journal, no. 79 (2018).
“Russian Foreign Policy in the Middle East: Multiple Drivers, Uncertain Outcomes”. Black Sea Strategy Paper, Foreign Policy Research Institute. Autumn 2017.
“Commitment Issues: The Syrian and Ukraine Crises as Bargaining Failures of the Post-Cold War International Order” – Problems of Post-Communism published online June 29, 2017 at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10758216.2017.1330660. With Andrej Krickovic, Higher School of Economics.
“Russia and the Black Sea: 19th Century Challenges, 21st Century Tools”. Foreign Policy Research Institute Policy Paper. Spring 2017.
“An Illiberal World Order? The BRICS Challenge to The U.S.-Led Political Order”. Orbis. Winter 2017 Volume 60, Issue 1.
“Liberalism vs. Anti-Liberalism as the Sources of ‘cold war’ in the Post-Soviet Space”. Baltic Rim Economies. February 2017, 1/2017.
“To Harass and Wait Out: Sources of American Conduct Towards Russia” Russia in Global Affairs, № 2 April/June 2016. http://eng.globalaffairs.ru/number/To-Harass-and-Wait-Out-18070. With Andrej Krickovic, Higher School of Economics.
“Are We in a Cold War or Not? 1989, 1991, and Great Power Dissatisfaction” e-IR. http://www.e-ir.info/2016/03/07/are-we-in-a-cold-war-or-not-1989-1991-and-great-power-dissatisfaction/
“New Cold War?” Survival 57.6 (2015): 215-217. With Andrej Krickovic.
“Why a new Cold War with Russia is inevitable”. Brookings Institution, Order from Chaos. Published September 30, 2015 at http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/order-from-chaos/posts/2015/09/30-new-cold-war-with-russia-krickovic-weber.
Review article: “Red Gas: Russia and the Origins of the European Energy Dependence” by Per Högselius. Cold War History. Print. 2015.
Review article: “Russia and the World: The Internal-External Nexus” by Natasha Kuhrt. e-International Relations. Web. 2015.
Press
“Vladimir Putin’s Legacy Project”, Aspen Institute. Published April 4, 2018 at https://www.aspeninstitute.it/aspenia-online/article/vladimir-putin-and-his-legacy-project.
“The Sinister Echoes of 1917 in Today’s Russia” Aspen Institute. Online preprint published September 11, 2017 at https://www.aspeninstitute.it/aspenia-online/article/sinister-echoes-1917-today%E2%80%99s-russia.
“Hopes and Limits of the Trump-Putin Partnership” Aspen Institute. Online preprint published July 11, 2017 at https://www.aspeninstitute.it/aspenia-online/article/hopes-and-limits-trump-putin-relationship.
“The Green Man of Russian Politics: Alexei Navalny” Aspen Institute. Online preprint published May 17, 2017 at https://www.aspeninstitute.it/aspenia-online/article/green-man-russia-alexei-navalny.
“The Russian Factor in European Politics” Aspen Institute. Online preprint published March 27, 2016 at http://www.aspeninstitute.it/aspenia-online/article/“russian-factor”-european-politics.
“The Emerging Costs of Russia’s Mideast Presence” Aspen Institute. Online preprint published December 30, 2016 at https://www.aspeninstitute.it/aspenia-online/article/emerging-costs-russia’s-mideast-presence.
“What does Putin really want? Trump’s presidency will show us” Washington Post, Monkey Cage. Published December 28, 2016 at https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/12/28/what-does-putin-really-want-trumps-presidency-will-show-us/
“The Insiders: Oil money, conflict and the age of diminished expectations in Russia”
Business New Europe. Published September 30, 2015 at http://www.bne.eu/content/story/insiders-oil-money-conflict-and-age-diminished-expectations-russia-0.
“Why the U.S. Does Nothing in Ukraine” Washington Post, Monkey Cage. Published March 18, 2015 at http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2015/03/18/why-the-u-s-does-nothing-in-ukraine/.
“What Should We Do About the Weakening Ruble, Lower Oil Prices, and Sanctions?”
Carnegie Moscow Center. Published December 23, 2014 at http://carnegie.ru/eurasiaoutlook/?fa=57595.
“OPEC Cuts Into Russian Coffers, But Will Expensive Grand Strategy Live On?”
Carnegie Moscow Center. Published December 2, 2014 at http://carnegie.ru/eurasiaoutlook/?fa=57360.
“Weak Ruble Exchange Rate Represents Political Bargaining Challenge?” Carnegie Moscow Center. Published November 19, 2014 at http://carnegie.ru/eurasiaoutlook/?fa=57261.
“Budet li ukrainskaya lustratsiya pokhozha na irakskuyu?” [Will the Ukrainian Lustration Look Like the Iraqi?]. RBK online. Published October 31, 2014 at http://daily.rbc.ru/opinions/politics/31/10/2014/54523379cbb20f6a14ae1e85 With Shlomo Weber.
“Will Lustration Help or Hinder Ukrainian Reform?” Carnegie Moscow Center. Published October 29, 2014 at http://carnegie.ru/eurasiaoutlook/?fa=57064.
“For Putin, It Gets More and More Expensive to Buy Loyalty of Russian Ruling Elites.”
Forbes Online. Published June 21, 2012 at
http://www.forbes.com/sites/yuliataranova/2012/06/21/for-putin-it-gets-more-and-more-expensive-to-buy-loyalty-of-russian-ruling-elites/
“Putin vynuzhden pokupat’ loyal’nost’ possiiskoi pravyaschei elityi vse bolee vysokoi tsenoi.” Translation of Forbes article into Russian by Inopressa. Published June 22, 2012 at http://www.inopressa.ru/article/22Jun2012/forbes/putin_elita.html.
“Why only Putin 2.0 has a chance at success.” Dallas Morning News. Published February 19, 2012. With Shlomo Weber.
“Kak tyazhela i slozhna bor’ba s byednostiu.” [The Costly and Difficult Struggle Against Poverty]. RBK online. Published October 4, 2011 at http://www.rbcdaily.ru/focus/opinion/562949981652753.shtml. With Shlomo Weber.
“Monogoroda: amerikanskii podkhod: kak v SShA reshaiut prolemy gorodow, ostavshikhsya bez raboty.” [Monotowns: an American Approach: How in the United States They Solve the Problems of Towns that are Left without Work]. Forbes Russia online. Published December 1, 2010 at http://www.forbes.ru/ekonomika/vlast/60440-monogoroda-amerikanskii-podhod.With Shlomo Weber.
“The Jews of Telc: Ano, Tady Byli, ale Už Nejsou [Yes, They Were Here, But Not Anymore].” Kosmas 18.2 (Spring): 74-89.
Working Papers Under Submission
- “When War is Preferable to Peace: Russia, the Post-Cold War Settlement, and the Kremlin’s Policy towards Ukraine” under review at Journal of Post-Soviet Politics and Society.
- “Regime Transitions and Lustration: Backward and Forward-Looking Institutional Design” with Shlomo Weber (Southern Methodist University)
- “Three Worlds of Hierarchy: Influence & Integration in World Politics” with Theocharis Grigoriadis (Freie Universität, Berlin)
Conferences and Invited Talks
- Forthcoming
Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
2nd Ghent-Russia Colloquium Keynote Speaker: “Russia’s Political Economy Since 1992: Back to the Future?”
Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, Boston, MA,
“Explaining Variation in Post-Communist Governance: Networks, Institutions, and Windfall Revenues”
Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, Boston, MA,
“Is Russia Around Every Corner? Critical Evaluations of Russian Foreign Policy in Central and Southeastern Europe”
International Conference on Economics of Football, Moscow, Russia
“Public Debt and Public Diplomacy: The Costs and Benefits of Sports Mega-Events”
- 2018
Woodrow Wilson Center, Congressional Foreign Policy Master Class (two briefings for senior and junior congressional staffers)
“How the Sausage is Made: Putin’s Government, Central Players, and Policy Process”
Global Relations Forum, Istanbul, Turkey (second presentation for Young Academics Program)
“Russia and Turkey in a Power Vacuum: American Uncertainty and Policy Options for Moscow and Ankara”
Columbia University, Harriman Institute
“Russia After Putin’s Reelection?”
University of Texas at Austin
“Election 2018: Putin and the Future of Russia’s Political Economy”
George Washington University, Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia, New Voices Speaker’s Series,
“Any Hopes or Changes From Russia’s Next Presidential Election?”
Center for Strategic and International Studies, Russia and Eurasia Program, Washington, DC
“Social Inequality and the Russian Economy”
- 2017
Pacific Council on International Policy annual conference
“Understanding Russia’s Ambitions”
Global Relations Forum, Istanbul, Turkey (first presentation for Young Academics Program)
“Russia and Turkey in a Power Vacuum: American Uncertainty and Policy Options for Moscow and Ankara”
Northeast Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, New York “Commitment Issues: Ukraine, Syria, and Arresting Relative Decline”
International Conference on Economics of Football, Kazan, Russia
“Belonging and Competence: Sports Mega-Events and Public Diplomacy Strategies for Emerging Powers”
Yale University, International Security Studies Colloquium, New Haven, CT, “Too Big for Eurasia, Too Small for the World: Russian Hierarchy Building”
Columbia University, Harriman Institute, New York – Columbia/NYU New York Russia Public Policy Seminar (invited panel)
“The Reset Trap? Reconfiguring U.S.-Russia Relations in a Time of International Uncertainty” with Stephen Kotkin and Daniel Nexon
International Studies Association, Baltimore, MD, USA (Presidential session) “Understanding Change in World Politics: The View from Moscow” “The Sources and Consequences of Hierarchy in Post-Soviet Space”
European Union Studies Association, Miami, FL, USA
“Eastern Partnership and Eurasian Union: Theory and Evidence on Competing Hierarchies in Post-Soviet Space”
Columbia University, New York
“Evaluating the Re-Reset”
- 2016
University of Wisconsin, Madison
“The Sources and Consequences of Hierarchy in Post-Soviet Space”
Columbia University, New York
“Lustration in the Former Soviet Space”
Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, Washington, DC, USA “Lustration as a foreign policy tool to limit or maintain external hierarchy with an outside power: Evidence from the former Soviet Union, 1992-2015”
International Studies Association, Asia-Pacific meeting, Hong Kong “Systemic Challenge and the Russia-China Security Relationship”
Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania
“The End of One Cold War and the Beginnings of Another: Structural Challenges to the International Political Order and the Consequences for the Eastern Partnership Area”
Harvard University, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Cambridge, MA
“Post-Soviet Regime Transitions and Lustration: Internal Policy Choices to Challenge or Accept Russian Political Hierarchy”
Harvard University, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Cambridge, MA “1989 vs. 1991: The End of the Cold War, the End of the USSR, and the Origins of Russia’s Dissatisfaction with Both”
- 2015
New Economic School, Center for the Study of Diversity and Social Interactions Winter School, Vladivostok (Far East Federal University)
“Threat of Rebellion from Former Regime Officials: Ethnic Diversity and Extent of Lustration”
“Declining Challengers and Regional Security: The Russian Pivot to Asia”
The Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow: Ukrainian Crisis and Integrations Processes in the Post-Soviet Space
“Did the contemporary international political order start in 1989 or 1991? Systemic challenges and conflict in Ukraine”
Freie Universität Berlin, Institute for East European Studies
Volkswagen Summer School: Governance, Markets And Institutions: Russia And Germany Compared “Multilevel security hierarchies: Russia, war, & Eurasian integration”
European Consortium for Political Research, Montreal, Canada (panel sessions)
“Regime Transitions and Lustration: Backward and Forward-Looking Institutional Design” and “Eurasian Integration and Russia’s Disparate Foreign Policies”
International School of Economics – Tbilisi State University (Georgia) “Bargaining Over Lustration”
Perm State University (Perm, Russia), The (not so) Discreet Charm of Clientelism: Comparative Perspectives on Patron-Client Relation
“Power Transitions and Hierarchical Relations”
Bundestag, Foreign Policy Committee (Berlin)
Invited background talks on Russian foreign policy issue
International Studies Association, New Orleans, USA (panel session)
“Is Geography Still Destiny? Russia as a Modern Day Continental Power”
Technische Universität Dresden (Germany), Department of Political Science “Bargaining Breakdowns and War Onset in Ukraine”
- 2014
Center for the Study of Diversity and Social Interactions (New Economic School) Winter School (Suzdal, Russia)
“Regime Transitions and Lustration: Backward and Forward-Looking Institutional Design”
Bundestag, Foreign Policy Committee (Berlin)
Invited for talks on Russian foreign policy issues by Christian Democratic Union
Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, San Antonio, USA “Great Powers, Emerging Technologies, and Regionalism in Eurasia”
Higher School of Economics-Harvard Working Group on US-Russia relations Biannual meeting (Moscow)
- 2013
Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, Boston, USA (panel session) “Revolution, State Power, and Foreign Policy: International Relations between Russia and its Neighbors”
Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, (panel session) “Russian National Identity: Implications for Foreign Policy” (discussant)
American Political Science Association, (panel session), Chicago, USA
“Power, Persuasion, and Authority in the Great Powers: Russia, China, and EU”
Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia (PONARS Eurasia) “Rethinking the Sources of Russian Foreign Policy,” George Washington University Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies