Tatiana A. SHAKLEINA

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Professor Tatiana Shakleina is Head of U.S. Foreign Policy Studies Department at the Institute for the U.S. and Canadian Studies (ISKRAN), Russian Academy of Sciences. She has been working at ISKRAN since 1972 and previously held positions of senior research fellow and head of Section on Russian-American Relations. She holds Doctor of Political Science (2003) and Candidate of Science in International Relations and World History (1984) degrees from ISKRAN. She received her MA in Linguistics from the Moscow State Institute of Foreign Languages in 1972.

Since 2000 Professor Shakleina has been teaching Russian History, U.S. Politics and U.S. Foreign Policy courses at Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University), Moscow State University and Russian State University for the Humanities. At ISKRAN, Tatiana Shakleina is responsible for the writing and editing of regular analytical reports on U.S. foreign policy for the Russian government bodies and corporations.

Professor Shakleina has published widely on U.S. politics and foreign policy, U.S.-Russian and NATO-Russian relations as well international and Eurasian security issues. She is the author of Russia and the United States in New World Order (Moscow: Institute of the USA and Canada Studies, 2002) - a monograph that was widely praised as a seminal contribution to the understanding of Russian and U.S. academic and political debates on mutual relations during the first decade of Russia's statehood.

In 2006 Tatiana Shakleina was awarded the Academician Evgeny Tarle Memorial Prize for her contribution to "Systemic History of International Relations" - a four-volume study of world politics from 1918 through 2003.