Mikhail Troitskiy

Mikhail Troitskiy is Professor of Practice in Russian Studies in the Political Science Department and Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before arriving in Madison with his family in December 2022, Mikhail was a school dean and associate professor of international politics at MGIMO University in Moscow. He holds a doctoral degree from the Institute for the U.S. and Canadian Studies at the Russian Academy of Science where he was a non-resident fellow between 2000-17. In 2009-15 he worked as deputy director and program officer at the Moscow office of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Mikhail has published articles on international security, conflict resolution, Russian foreign policy, and Russia’s war against Ukraine in a number of peer-reviewed and policy journals, such as WIREs Climate Change, Problems of Postcommunism, Global Policy, Survival, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and others. His commentary appeared in the International New York Times, Newsweek, Wisconsin Public Radio, CNN, the BBC, ABC Australia, Observador (Portugal), Caijing (China), and other global media outlets. Links to Mikhail’s full bio, scholar profiles, publications, and media commentary can be found on his page at https://polisci.wisc.edu/staff/troitskiy-mikhail/