‘Central Asia between the Great Powers: The Growing Rivalry for Influence in the Former Soviet “Stans”’
Dr. Eugene Huskey, Professor Emeritus
Stetson University
A specialist on politics and legal affairs in the Soviet Union and the successor
states of Russia and Kyrgyzstan, Eugene Huskey received a Ph.D. from the
London School of Economics and Political Science in 1983. After teaching at
Colgate University and Bowdoin College, he joined the faculty of Stetson
University in his native Central Florida in 1989, where he held the William R.
Kenan, Jr. Chair in Political Science from 1999 to 2019. Since 2019 he has been
Professor Emeritus at Stetson.
Professor Huskey is the author or editor of five books and has published more than
60 academic articles or book chapters on subjects ranging from the presidency and
the legal profession in Russia to language politics and elections in Kyrgyzstan. He
has also contributed to general interest programs and publications with Salon, the
Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, the Canadian Broadcasting
Company, Al-Jazeera, Australia Radio National, and PBS’s Frontline. In addition,
he has given briefings or presentations on contemporary developments in Eurasia
to the U.S. State Department, the Central Intelligence Agency, the National
Security Council, and the U.S. Marines. In April 2010, he testified before the U.S.
House Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs on the causes and
consequences of the rebellion that toppled President Bakiev of Kyrgyzstan.
He served recently as an expert on Russia in a billion-dollar lawsuit pitting aircraft
lessors against insurance companies, a case prompted by Western sanctions on
Russian airlines. He also provides expert statements and testimony in immigration
cases involving Kyrgyz nationals in the US, some of whom have been the victims
of bride-kidnapping in their home country.
He lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma and DeLand, Florida with his wife, Janet Martinez.