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Henry E. Hale
Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs
Director, Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies
Office: 1957 E Street, NW Suite 412
Phone: (202) 994-4810
Fax: (202) 994-5436
E-mail: hhale@gwu.edu
Web: http://hehale5.googlepages.com/
Education:
Ph.D., Harvard University
Expertise:
Ethnic politics, federalism, democratization, political parties, politics of Eurasia (esp. Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia)
Background:
Henry E. Hale (Ph.D. Harvard University 1998), Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, is Director of the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (IERES), its Petrach Program on Ukraine, and the Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia (PONARS Eurasia). His writings focus on issues of ethnicity, democracy, and international integration, and he is the author of the books The Foundations of Ethnic Politics: Separatism of States and Nations in Eurasia and the World (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and Why Not Parties in Russia? Democracy, Federalism and the State (Cambridge University Press, 2006), winner of the American Political Science Association's Leon D. Epstein Outstanding Book Award for 2006 and 2007. He is also co-editor of the book Developments in Russian Politics 7 (Duke University Press, 2010). His articles have appeared in a variety of journals, with his piece "Divided We Stand" (World Politics, 2003) winning the APSA's Qualitative Methods Section's Alexander George Award.
He spent 2007-2008 on a Fulbright Scholarship in Moscow working on a new book, Great Expectations: The Politics of Regime Change in Eurasia, which he is currently writing up. Prior to joining GW, he taught at Indiana University (2000-2005), the European University at St. Petersburg, Russia (1999), and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (1997-98). He has also served as coordinator of party-building programs at Harvard's Strengthening Democratic Institutions Project (1998-2000) and editor of the Russian Election Watch (1999-2000 and 2003-04).
Courses Taught:
Psc 2366 Government and Politics of Russia
Psc 6333 Comparative Politics of Russia and Eurasia
Psc 8489 Selected Topics in International Politics:
- State-Building in Central Asia and Transcaucasia
- Theories of Ethnic Politics