Dmitry Evstafiev

Dr. Dmitry Evstafiev is a Senior Research Associate at the PIR Center, Editor of PIR Study Papers: Russia's and Global Security and Yaderny Kontrol Journal, and Director of the Program "Russian Domestic Politics & Security". Born in 1966, he graduated with honors from the Faculty of History at the Institute for Asian and African Studies at the Moscow State University in 1989. In 1993, Evstafiev defended his doctoral thesis in Political Sciences at the Department of Military-Political Studies, USA and Canada Studies Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. From 1992-1995, Dr. Evstafiev held the positions of Junior Research Fellow and then Research Fellow at the USA and Canada Studies Institute. From 1995-1998, he held the post of Senior Research Fellow and later Leading Research Fellow at Russia's Institute for Strategic Studies; he is also an Assistant Editor of the "New Russia" journal (formerly "Soviet Union" journal) and a chief of the editing board of the "Deti Feldmarshala" (Field-Marshal's Children) journal. Evstafiev has co-authored two books, and published several papers in Russia and abroad. He has written many articles for publication in newspapers and scientific and political journals within Russia. Current research interests include the military-political aspects of Russia's national security; the foreign and military policy of the USA; crisis decision making and conflict management; and the military-political specifics of the conflicts in post-Soviet Eurasia.