Andrei Tsygankov
Russian political scientist
Andrei Pavlovich Tsygankov (Russian: Андрей Павлович Цыганков; born April 23, 1964) is a Russian-born academic and author in the field of international relations at San Francisco State University.
Early life and education
Tsygankov received his Candidate of Sciences degree at Moscow State University in 1991 and after emigration a PhD from University of Southern California in 2000.
Career
As of 2017, he has been a professor at San Francisco State University in California, where he teaches comparative Russian, and international politics in the Political Science and International Relations departments.
He has been a contributor at the Valdai Discussion Club.
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. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. April 26, 2009. doi:10.1057/9780230620957. ISBN 978-0-230-62095-7.
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