Yuval Weber

Yuval Weber

Texas A&M’s Bush School of Government and Public Service in Washington, DC.

Russia, Eurasia, Europe, Central Asia, Caucasus, International Security, Great Power Competition, Politics and Economics of Energy, Russian Military and Political Strategy, Russian and Eurasian security, Russian Political Economy, Russian Economy, Russian Politics and StatecraftPolitics and Economics of Central Asia and the Caucasus

Biography

Dr. Yuval Weber, PhD, is a Research Assistant Professor at Texas A&M’s Bush School of Government and Public Service in Washington, DC. Dr. Weber also serves as the Bren Chair of Russian Military and Political Strategy at the Brute Krulak Center for Innovation and Creativity at Marine Corps University in Quantico, VA. Prior to Texas A&M, Dr. Weber served as the Kennan Institute Associate Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies at the Daniel Morgan Graduate School, as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at Harvard University, and as an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. Dr. Weber has held research positions at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, and the Carnegie Moscow Center. He has published on a range of Russian and Eurasian security, political, and economic topics in academic journals and for the popular press in the United States and Russia. He is currently working on two projects, one that develops a tool to measure hierarchy and resilience in international affairs to chart the course and conduct of great power competition and a second that examines the tension between demands of economic modernization and the security state in Russian political economy. His work has appeared in Problems of Post-Communism, International Studies Review, Survival, Cold War Studies, Orbis, and the Washington Post. The latter manuscript is also scheduled for publication by Agenda Publishing and Columbia University Press. Yuval Weber presented the paper, “Energy Revenues, Petropolitics and Russian Foreign Policy Outcomes” at the PONARS Eurasia Workshop “Rethinking the Sources of Russian Foreign Policy” held at George Washington University’s Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies on March 16-18. Weber was also a panelist at the ‘The Rise of the Rest’ discussion put on by the UT-Austin International Affairs Society. Weber has a review of “Red Gas: Russia and the Origins of European Energy Dependence” by Per Hogselius in the forthcoming issue of Cold War History. Recent Article: “Hierarchy of Membership and Burden Sharing in a Military Alliance.” Defence and Peace Economics (2020): 1-24. With Shlomo Weber, Southern Methodist University, and Hans Wiesmeth, Technical University of Dresden. Recent Review: “No End in Sight: Russia and Turkey Battle for Syria.” Middle East Insights, Volume 11, Issue 1, February 2020. Recent Peer-Reviewed Articles: “Hierarchy of Membership and Burden Sharing in a Military Alliance.” Defence and Peace Economics (2020): 1-24. With Shlomo Weber, Southern Methodist University, and Hans Wiesmeth, Technical University of Dresden. Recent Book Chapter: “Varieties of Hierarchy: Great Power Politics and Local Resilience in Central Asia,” in Bossuyt, F. and Dessein, B. (Eds), 2021. The EU, China and Central Asia: Regional Cooperation in A New Era. London: Routledge Publishers. Under review. 

 

Education

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-AUSTIN, 2008–2014

First field: International Relations (Foreign Policy, International Security)
Second field: Comparative Politics (Political Economy, Democratization)
Dissertation: Petropolitics and Foreign Policy: Fiscal and Institutional Origins of Soviet and Russian Foreign Policy, 1964-201

 

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, Class of 2006

MA in International Relations, Division of Social Sciences
Specializations: International Relations Theory, Foreign Policy

 

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-AUSTIN, Class of 2004

BA in Government
BA in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies BA in Russian Language and Literature
BA in Czech Language and Literature
BA in Plan II (multi-disciplinary Honors program)

Current and previous Affiliations and employment

  • Texas A&M University, Bush School of Government and Public Service – Research Assistant Professor, 2020-present
  • Marine Corps University, Krulak Center – Donald L. Bren Chair of Russian Military and Political Strategy, 2019-present
  • Harvard University, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies – Center Associate, 2017-present
  • Metis Solutions – Consultant, US Special Operations Command, 2019-2022
  • Daniel Morgan Graduate School – Kennan Institute Associate Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies, 2018-2020
  • Daniel Morgan Graduate School – Kennan Institute Fellow, 2017-2018
  • Woodrow Wilson Center – Global Fellow, 2017-2019
  • Government Department, Harvard University – Visiting Assistant Professor, 2016-2017
  • National Research University – Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia) – Assistant Professor, 2014-2017
  • The Carnegie Moscow Center, Moscow, Russia – Nonresident Research Associate, 2014-2016
  • The Carnegie Moscow Center, Moscow, Russia – Visiting Research Fellow, 2012-2013
  • New Economic School (Rossiskaya Ekonomicheskaya Shkola), Moscow, Russia – Visiting Professor, 2012-2014

 

Monographs

Designed to Fail: Patterns in Russian Economic Reform, 1861-2018. Agenda Publishing/Columbia University Press. Under contract. Estimated completion June 2020.

Varieties of Hierarchy: Liberal and Illiberal Orders in International Politics. Manuscript under process.

Book Chapters

“Varieties of Hierarchy: Great Power Politics and Local Resilience in Central Asia,” in Bossuyt, F. and Dessein, B. (Eds), 2021. The EU, China and Central Asia: Regional Cooperation in A New Era. London: Routledge Publishers. Under review.

“Measuring Hierarchy in the European Union and Eastern Partnership Countries,” in Rouet, G. and Pascariu, G (Eds), 2019. Resilience and the EU’s Eastern Neighborhood Countries: From Theoretical Concepts to a Normative Agenda. Zug, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.

“The Juiciest Fruit Left on the Vine: Ukraine as a Bargaining Failure,” in Soroka, G, and Stepniewski, T (Eds), (2019). Ukraine After Maidan: Revisiting Domestic and Regional Security. Hannover: Ibedem-Verlag.

“Patterns in Russian Economic Reform Over the Centuries,” in Enikopolov, R (Ed), (2019). Moscow: Bombora Publishing House.page3image3851866816

“Khokkeynaya Diplomatiya / Hockey Diplomacy”, in Ledeneva, AV (Ed), (2018). The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality, Volume 2. London: UCL Press. With Yoshiko Herrera, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 

“Petropolitics: Energy Resources and Russian Foreign Policy,” in Tsygankov, AP (Ed), (2018). The Routledge Handbook of Russian Foreign Policy. London: Routledge.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Hierarchy of Membership and Burden Sharing in a Military Alliance.” Defence and Peace Economics (2020): 1-24. With Shlomo Weber, Southern Methodist University, and Hans Wiesmeth, Technical University of Dresden.

What Can Russia Teach Us about Change? Status-Seeking as a Catalyst for Transformation in International Politics.”, With Andrej Krickovic, Higher School of Economics. “The Roots and Future of Putin’s Political System.” Aspenia Journal, no. 79 (2018).

Commitment Issues: The Syrian and Ukraine Crises as Bargaining Failures of the Post-Cold War International Order” – Problems of Post-Communism, Volume 65, Issue 6, 2018, With Andrej Krickovic, Higher School of Economics.

“An Illiberal World Order? The BRICS Challenge to The U.S.-Led Political Order”. Orbis. Winter 2017 Volume 60, Issue 1.

“Liberalism vs. Anti-Liberalism as the Sources of ‘cold war’ in the Post-Soviet Space”. Baltic Rim Economies. February 2017, 1/2017.

To Harass and Wait Out: Sources of American Conduct Towards Russia” Russia in Global Affairs, No 2 April/June 2016, With Andrej Krickovic, Higher School of Economics.

“New Cold War?” Survival 57.6 (2015): 215-217. With Andrej Krickovic.

Reports and Reviews

No End in Sight: Russia and Turkey Battle for Syria.” Middle East Insights, Volume 11, Issue 1, February 2020,

“The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia.” International Affairs, Volume 94, Issue 6, 1 November 2018, Pages 1469–1471.

Running in Place: The Latest Round of Russian Economic Modernization”. Russia Political Economy Project, Foreign Policy Research Institute. March 2018.

“Russian Foreign Policy in the Middle East: Multiple Drivers, Uncertain Outcomes”. Black Sea Strategy Paper, Foreign Policy Research Institute. Autumn 2017.

“Russia and the Black Sea: 19th Century Challenges, 21st Century Tools”. Foreign Policy Research Institute Policy Paper. Spring 2017.

Are We in a Cold War or Not? 1989, 1991, and Great Power Dissatisfaction” e-IR. 

Why a New Cold War with Russia is Inevitable”. Brookings Institution, Order from Chaos. Published September 30, 2015 

Review article: “Red Gas: Russia and the Origins of the European Energy Dependence” by Per Högselius. Cold War History. Print. 2015.

Review article: “Russia and the World: The Internal-External Nexus” by Natasha Kuhrt. e-International Relations. Web. 2015.

Russian Hong Kong: The Kuril Islands and Security in East Asia. With Dmitri Trenin. Washington, DC and Moscow: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. 2013. 

Press Commentary

“Vladimir Putin’s Legacy Project”, Aspen Institute. Published April 4, 2018

“The Sinister Echoes of 1917 in Today’s Russia”, Aspen Institute. Online preprint published September 11, 2017

“Hopes and Limits of the Trump-Putin Partnership”, Aspen Institute. Online preprint published July 11, 2017

“The Green Man of Russian Politics: Alexei Navalny”, Aspen Institute. Online preprint published May 17, 2017

“The Russian Factor in European Politics”, Aspen Institute. Online preprint published March 27, 2016

“The Emerging Costs of Russia’s Mideast Presence”, Aspen Institute. Online preprint pub- lished December 30, 2016

“What does Putin really want? Trump’s presidency will show us,” Washington Post, Monkey Cage. Published December 28, 2016 

“The Insiders: Oil money, conflict and the age of diminished expectations in Russia,” Business New Europe. Published September 30, 2015

“Why the U.S. Does Nothing in Ukraine,” Washington Post, Monkey Cage. Published March 18, 2015 

“What Should We Do About the Weakening Ruble, Lower Oil Prices, and Sanctions?” Carnegie Moscow Center. Published December 23, 2014 

“OPEC Cuts Into Russian Coffers, But Will Expensive Grand Strategy Live On?” Carnegie Moscow Center. Published December 2, 2014

“Weak Ruble Exchange Rate Represents Political Bargaining Challenge?” Carnegie Moscow Center. Published November 19, 2014

“Budet li ukrainskaya lustratsiya pokhozha na irakskuyu?” [Will the Ukrainian Lustration Look Like the Iraqi?]. RBK online. Published October 31, 2014 

“Will Lustration Help or Hinder Ukrainian Reform?” Carnegie Moscow Center. Published October 29, 2014

“For Putin, It Gets More and More Expensive to Buy Loyalty of Russian Ruling Elites.”
Forbes Online. Published June 21, 2012

“Putin vynuzhden pokupat’ loyal’nost’ possiiskoi pravyaschei elityi vse bolee vysokoi tsenoi.” Translation of Forbes article into Russian by Inopressa. Published June 22, 2012 

“Why only Putin 2.0 has a chance at success.” Dallas Morning News. Published February 19, 2012. With Shlomo Weber.

“Kak tyazhela i slozhna bor’ba s byednostiu.” [The Costly and Difficult Struggle Against Pov- erty]. RBK online. Published October 4, 2011

“Monogoroda: amerikanskii podkhod: kak v SShA reshaiut prolemy gorodow, ostavshikhsya bez raboty.” [Monotowns: an American Approach: How in the United States They Solve the Problems of Towns that are Left without Work]. Forbes Russia online. Published December 1, 2010 

“The Jews of Telc: Ano, Tady Byli, ale Už Nejsou [Yes, They Were Here, But Not Any- more].” Kosmas 18.2 (Spring): 74-89.

Working Papers

  • “Regime Transitions and Lustration: Backward and Forward-Looking Institutional Design” with Shlomo Weber (Southern Methodist University)

  • “Three Worlds of Hierarchy: Influence & Integration in World Politics” with Theocharis Grigoriadis (Freie Universität, Berlin)

Articles (non-exhaustive list)