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Andrew Barnes

Andrew Barnes

Associate Professor
Campus:
Kent
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?”).
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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 Vitae 2015-02-11.doc

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Global Understanding Research Initiative
Department of Political Science
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