Irina Busygina

Focus Areas: Russian foreign and domestic politics, Russia – European Union relations, and comparative federalism and decentralization

Irina Busygina is Visiting Scholar at the Davis Center of Russian and Eurasian Studies at the Harvard University. Prior to joining the Davis Center, she was Professor of Comparative Politics at the Higher School of Economics in Saint Petersburg (Russia) and Director of the Center for Comparative Governance Studies. Her research interests focus on Russian foreign and domestic politics, Russia – European Union relations, and comparative federalism and decentralization.

Irina Busygina teaches Russia and the European Union relations.

Education

• PhD in Political Science, Moscow State Institute of International Relations