I am an Associate Professor of Diplomacy & World Affairs and a faculty affiliate of the John Parke Young Initiative on the Global Political Economy at Occidental College. I'm a political economist with interests in international politics, financial globalization, comparative rule-of-law institutions, populism, and autocracy. Most of my work to date has focused on Russia and Central Asia. Currently, I am working on a new project on the strategic implications of the global energy transition, with a focus on the United States.
My research and commentary have appeared in Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Democratization, European Journal of Politics and Gender, Europe-Asia Studies, Review of International Political Economy, Russian Politics, and other publications.
My first book Global Finance and Local Control: Corruption and Wealth in Contemporary Russia was named the co-winner of the 2023 Best Book Award given by the International Political Economy section of the International Studies Association to "an outstanding monograph in the field of IPE published within the past two years."
Before joining the faculty at Occidental College in 2020, I spent five memorable years in the political science department at Wellesley College. I have also held appointments at the Cornell-in-Washington Program, the Harriman Institute at Columbia University, and the Monterey Institute for International Studies. I am a native of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, where I had the good fortune to study at the Physics and Mathematics Lyceum #61.
My research and commentary have appeared in Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Democratization, European Journal of Politics and Gender, Europe-Asia Studies, Review of International Political Economy, Russian Politics, and other publications.
My first book Global Finance and Local Control: Corruption and Wealth in Contemporary Russia was named the co-winner of the 2023 Best Book Award given by the International Political Economy section of the International Studies Association to "an outstanding monograph in the field of IPE published within the past two years."
Before joining the faculty at Occidental College in 2020, I spent five memorable years in the political science department at Wellesley College. I have also held appointments at the Cornell-in-Washington Program, the Harriman Institute at Columbia University, and the Monterey Institute for International Studies. I am a native of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, where I had the good fortune to study at the Physics and Mathematics Lyceum #61.
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Email: ilogvinenko@oxy.edu
Twitter: @igorlogvinenko
