Paul D'Anieri

Biography

Paul D’Anieri is Professor of Political Science and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Florida.

From 1991 to 2008, he was in the Political Science Department at the University of Kansas, where he also served as Associate Dean of Humanities (2004-2008), Director of the Center for Russian and East European Studies (2003-4), and Associate Dean for International Programs (1999-2003) .

D’Anieri’s research focuses on politics and foreign policy in the post-Soviet states. He spent 1993-1994 in Ukraine on a Fulbright Grant, and has written on the link between economics and security in Ukrainian-Russian relations. His books include Economic Interdependence in Ukrainian Russian-Relations (SUNY, 1999) and Understanding Ukrainian Politics: Power, Politics, and Institutional Design ( M.E. Sharpe, 2007), which analyzes the relative roles of institutional design and power politics in post-communist democratization. He has also written a textbook, International Politics: Power and Purpose in Global Affairs (Wadsworth Cengage, 2009).

D’Anieri received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1991.