Russia, Shunned in Europe, but Welcomed by the Rest?
Dr. Charles E. Ziegler
Professor
University of Louisville
Charles E. Ziegler is Professor of Political Science and University Scholar at the University of Louisville. A specialist on the domestic, foreign and security policies of Russia and Eurasia, Ziegler is co-editor (with Judith Thornton) of The Russian Far East: A Region at Risk (University of Washington Press, 2002), and author of The History of Russia (2nd edition, Greenwood Press, 2009), Foreign Policy and East Asia (Cambridge University Press, 1993), and Environmental Policy in the USSR (University of Massachusetts Press, 1987). His edited book, Civil Society and Politics in Central Asia, was published by the University Press of Kentucky in 2015. His latest book is Russia in the Pacific: The Quest for Great Power Recognition.
Dr. Ziegler has published over 120 book chapters and articles for such professional journals as International Studies Perspectives, International Relations, Comparative Politics, Political Science Quarterly, British Journal of Political Science, Problems of Post-Communism, International Politics, Democratization, Asian Survey, and Strategic Studies Quarterly, and has presented well over 100 papers at national and international conferences. Ziegler first joined the University of Louisville in 1980 and was Chair of the Department of Political Science from 1998 to 2007.
Ziegler has held an International Research and Exchanges Board Advanced Individual Research Opportunity grant, a Senior Fulbright Fellowship to Korea, an International Affairs Fellowship of the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Hoover Institution National Fellowship. He was Project Director for a State Department funded program on building civil society in Kazakhstan and was consultant to the PhD program at Eurasian National University in Astana. Ziegler is founder and Senior Scholar of the Center for Asian Democracy. He has served as Executive Director of the Louisville Committee on Foreign Relations since 1990 and is currently Faculty Director of the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order. Ziegler received the BA from Purdue University, and the AM and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.