Dr. Mikhail Rykhtik is the Chair of the Department of International Political Communication and Area Studies at Nizhny Novgorod State University (NNSU) as well as the Deputy Dean of the School of International Studies at NNSU. Additionally, he is the Deputy Director of the Nizhny Novgorod Political Science Center (NPO Center). Dr. Rykhtik has vast experience in supervising and conducting international research projects on various issues of US-Russian Relations, Security Studies, Cross-Cultural Communications. He is author and co-author of six major books and a range of articles and papers.
His current academic interests include security studies, ethnic/religious extremism, international political communication, and nanotechnology risk governance.
Email: mrykhtik@rol.ru; mrykhtik@ya.ru