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Cynthia A. Roberts
International Affairs Building, Room 1323
Adjunct Associate Professor, School of International and Public Affairs
Phone: 212-854-3213
car52@columbia.edu
Biography:
Cynthia A. Roberts is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Hunter College, City University of New York and also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. Previously, Dr. Roberts was Director of the Russian Area Studies Graduate Program at Hunter. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science and the Certificate of the Harriman Institute, both from Columbia University. Dr. Roberts has held research fellowships at the Brookings Institution and Stanford University, received numerous grants, including from the Ford Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and served as a consultant to various departments of the U.S. government. Her articles on Russian affairs and international security problems have appeared in such journals as Comparative Politics, Survival, Europe-Asia Studies, The Washington Quarterly, Journal of Cold War Studies and others, as well as in books on these subjects. She is the author of a monograph on "Russia and the European Union: The Sources and Limits of 'Special Relationships'" which is under review for publication. Dr. Roberts is currently working on two projects, including revisions on a book manuscript on "Prelude to Catastrophe: Soviet Security Policy between the World Wars," which was accepted for inclusion in the series "Studies of the Harriman Institute," Columbia University. Her other major grant-funded project concerns the perils of partial integration which examines Russia's "special relationships" with NATO, the European Union and the G-8.