Mikhail Troitskiy: Power and Principle in Russia's Wars and Negotiations

Mikhail Troitskiy

Professor of Practice in Russian Studies

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Mikhail Troitskiy is Professor of Practice in Russian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research on conflicts, security, and politics in Eurasia, Russian foreign policy and U.S.-Russia relations, arms control, and international negotiation has been published in Problems of Postcommunism, Survival, Global Policy, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Russian Politics and Law, Horizons, Cambridge University Press, Routledge, Palgrave-Macmillan, McGill-Queen’s University Press / CIGI, Woodrow Wilson Center Press, Nomos Verlag, and SIPRI. He is a member of PONARS Eurasia and PIN Negotiation networks of scholars.



Troitskiy received his master's degree in International Relations from St. Petersburg State University and his doctoral degree from the Institute for the U.S. and Canadian Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was deputy director and program officer at the Russia office of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in 2009-2015. In 2014-2022, he taught at European University at St. Petersburg. In 2003-2022, he taught at MGIMO University in Moscow, where he also was dean of the School of Government and International Affairs in 2017-2022. He was a Fulbright-Kennan Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. in 2005-2006 and held visiting fellowships at Cambridge and Oxford Universities, respectively, in 2006 and 2008.