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    Andrew Barnes

    Andrew Barnes

    Associate Professor; Program Director, International Relations; Undergraduate Coordinator, School of Multidisciplinary Social Studies and Humanities
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    Kent
    Office Location:
    Oscar Ritchie Hall 127D
    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

    Some recent publications include:

    • Owning Russia: The Struggle over Factories, Farms, and Power (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006).
    • “Contemporary Financial Nationalism in Theory and Practice,” Nationalities Papers (2024) (with Juliet Johnson).
    • “Russia in a Changing Climate,” Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIREs): Climate Change, 15:2 (March/April 2024) (with Debra Javeline, Robert Orttung, Graeme Robertson, Richard Arnold, Laura Henry, Edward Holland, Mariya Omelicheva, Peter Rutland, Edward Schatz, Caress Schenk, Andrey Semenov, Valerie Sperling, Lisa Sundstrom, Mikhail Troitskiy, Judith Twigg, and Susanne Wengle).
    • “Kids Today: They Care, But They Don’t Think We Do,” Journal of Political Science Education (2022) (with Julie Mazzei, Oindrila Roy, and George Poluse).

    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
    International Studies
    School of Multidisciplinary Social Sciences & Humanities
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