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    Andrew Barnes

    Andrew Barnes

    Associate Professor
    Campus:
    Kent
    Office Location:
    Bowman Hall
    Office Hours:
    By Appointment
    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

    Expertise

    Post-Communist Transformations
    Comparative Politics
    International Political Economy
    Russia-China Relations (Oil Only)
    Russia
    Oil
    post-communist countries
    oligarchy
    resource competition
    states and markets
    east-west relations

    Documents

    PDF icon CV 2025-02-05.pdf

    Research Institutes and Initiatives

    Global Understanding Research Initiative
    School of Multidisciplinary Social Sciences & Humanities

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    113 Bowman Hall


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    800 E. Summit St.
    Kent, OH 44242

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