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Andrew Barnes

Andrew Barnes

Associate Professor
Contact Information
Email:
abarnes3@kent.edu
Phone:
330-672-8947

Biography

Dr. Barnes's research and teaching interests are in post-communist political economies, the politics of international finance and oil, and the links between markets and democracy. His first book was called Owning Russia: The Struggle over Factories, Farms, and Power (Cornell University Press, 2006), and his articles have appeared in Review of International Political Economy, Problems of Post-Communism, Post-Soviet Affairs, and Comparative Politics, among others. 

Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities

His most recent publications include:

  • Owning Russia: The Struggle over Factories, Farms, and Power (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006).
  • “Financial Nationalism and Its International Enablers: The Hungarian Experience,” Review of International Political Economy, 22:3 (2015) (with Juliet Johnson).
  • “Three in One: Unpacking the ‘Collapse’ of the Soviet Union,” Problems of Post-Communism (forthcoming).
  • "Russia’s Potential Role in the World Oil System: Reciprocal Dependency, Global Integration, and Positive Unintended Consequences,” in Neil Robinson, ed., The Political Economy of Russia (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2013), 151-168.
  • “From the Politics of Economic Reform to the Functioning of Political Economies,”Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, 20:2 (Spring 2012), 79-85. (Special Issue, “Twenty Years since the Collapse of the USSR: What Have We Learned?”).

Education

Ph.D. in Politics, Princeton University, 1998
M.A. in Politics, Princeton University, 1993
B.A. in Government, College of William and Mary, 1991

Documents

PDF icon CV 2025-02-05.pdf
Global Understanding Research Initiative
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