Robert Orttung is a senior fellow at the Jefferson Institute and a visiting scholar at the Center for Security Studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. Orttung is a co-editor of the Russian Analytical Digest, a biweekly newsletter that examines political and economic developments in Russia (http://www.res.ethz.ch/analysis/rad/). Previously he worked at American University’s Terrorism, Transnational Crime, and Corruption Center, the East-West Institute, and the Open Media Research Institute. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from UCLA in 1992 and a B.A. from Stanford University in Russian Studies in 1986.
Recent Publications:
Books:
Editor (with Andrey Makarychev), Counter-Terrorism Strategies in the US, UK, France, Turkey, and Russia: A Comparative Analysis, Amsterdam: IOS Press, December 2006.
Editor (with Andreas Wenger and Jeronim Perovic), Russian Business Power: The Role of Business in Russian Foreign and Security Relations, London: Routledge, 2006.
Editor (with Peter Reddaway), The Dynamics of Russian Politics: Putin’s Reform of Federal-Regional Relations, (2 volumes), Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003 and 2005.
Journal Articles:
(with Louise Shelley), “Criminal Acts,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, September/October 2006, pp. 22-23.
(with Phyllis Dininio), “Explaining Patterns of Corruption in the Russian Regions,” World Politics 57, July 2005.
“Business and Politics in the Russian Regions,” Problems of Post-Communism, March-April 2004.
Book Chapters:
(with Phyllis Dininio), “Explaining Patterns of Corruption in the Russian Regions,” in Transparency International, Global Corruption Report 2007, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. 346-348, http://www.transparency.org/publications/gcr/download_gcr#20.
(with Louise I. Shelley), “Russia’s Efforts to Combat Human Trafficking: Efficient crime groups versus irresolute societies and uncoordinated states,” in William Alex Pridemore, ed., Ruling Russia: Law, Crime and Justice in a Changing Society, Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005.
“Russia” in Freedom House’s Nations in Transit 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004: Democratization in East Central Europe and Eurasia, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004.
Other Publications:
Co-editor of the Russian Analytical Digest (http://www.res.ethz.ch/analysis/rad/), 2006-present, Editor of the Russian Regional Report, 1996-2006, and author of numerous contributions to the Wall Street Journal Europe, International Herald Tribune, Newsday, Economist Intelligence Unit’s Business Russia, OMRI’s Transition, Moscow Times, Nezavisimaya gazeta, Demokratizatsia, and Slavic Review.