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Monday March 3, 2007
Allen Medical Library
Ford Auditorium - 4:30p.m.
Corner of Euclid Avenue and Adelbert Road on the
Campus of Case Western Reserve University
What has Russia become, and
where is it going? Join us on the day after
Russia's Presidential election (or selection) as
the Center for Policy Studies hosts three
groundbreaking scholars of post-Soviet affairs. Tom Remington, Professor of Political Science at
Emory University, is the author of two books on
the Russian Parliament and a basic text,
Politics in Russia, now in its 5th edition.
Andrew Barnes, Associate Professor of Political
Science at Kent State University, has authored
numerous studies of the new Russian economy,
including Owning Russia: The Struggle Over
Factories, Farms, and Power. Kelly McMann,
Assistant Professor of Political Science at Case
Western Reserve University, studies
democratization in Russia and other ex-Soviet
states, and is the author of Economic Autonomy
and Democracy: Hybrid Regimes in Russia and
Kyrgyzstan.
 Thomas F. Remington is Professor of
Political Science at Emory University . He has
taught at Emory since 1978. Professor
Remington graduated from Oberlin College in 1970,
earned his M.A. in Russian and European Studies
from Yale in 1974, and his Ph.D. from Yale in
1978.
Professor Remington was founding director of
Emory's Program in Russian and East European
Studies.
He is a past member of the Board of Directors of
the National Council for Eurasian and East
European Research and of the Board of Directors of
the American Association for the Advancement of
Slavic Studies. He is Advisor for Russia Workshops
for the East-West Parliamentary Practice Project,
based in Amsterdam , and has planned and directed
a series of workshops for parliamentarians in a
number of cities in Russia since 1993.
Andrew Barnes received his B.A from the
College of William and Mary in 1991, and his Ph.D.
in Politics from Princeton University in 1998. He
taught at Georgetown University and the University
of Miami before joining Kent State in 2001.
Kelly M. McMann earned her B.A. from
Dartmouth in 1992 and her Ph.D. from the
University of Michigan in 2000. Before joining the
faculty at CWRU, she conducted research at the
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies of
Harvard University, and taught courses at
Wellesley College and Yale University.
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