Dr. Ekaterina Stepanova is Project Leader on Armed Conflicts and Conflict Management at Stockholm International Peace Research Institute since 2007. She is the project's principal researcher on armed conflicts and transnational asymmetrical threats such as terrorism and transnational crime in conflict-related context. She is on leave of absence from the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Moscow where she has led a Research group on unconventional security threats since 2001.
She serves on editorial boards of “Terrorism and Political Violence” (St Andrews Univ., UK) and “Security Index” (CREP, Geneva). In 2003, she worked as a Researcher on armed conflict and terrorism at SIPRI. In 1994-2000, she worked as a researcher at the Moscow Center of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She was twice a MacArthur Research Fellow (2003 and 2000), and a MacArthur NGO Fellow at King's College, University of London (1998). She has lectured on conflict, terrorism and transnational crime at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), the Department of World Politics, Moscow State University etc.
She is the author of several monographs, including Terrorism in Asymmetrical Conflict: Ideological and Structural Aspects (Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2008),
Anti-terrorism and Peace-building During and After Conflict (Stockholm: SIPRI, 2003),
and Civil-Military Relations In Operations Other Than War (Moscow: Human Rights Publ., 2001). Her book The Role of Illicit Drug Business in the Political Economy of Conflicts and Terrorism (Moscow, 2005) won the gold medal award for young scientists from the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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