Dr. Mikhail Troitskiy is Dean of the MGIMO School of Government and International Affairs and Associate Professor of International Relations at MGIMO's Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy of Russia. His areas of expertise include international security, negotiation theory, Russian foreign policy, Russia’s relations with the neighbouring states, the European Union, and the United States.
Since September 2003, he has been teaching history of international relations, international security, and Russian foreign policy courses at MGIMO. In 2007–2009 he served as deputy dean of the MGIMO School of Political Affairs. Since 2014 he has taught in European University at St. Petersburg as IMARES Program professor.
In 2000-2016 Troitskiy was a research fellow at the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2009-2015 he was deputy director and program officer at the Russia office of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Troitskiy’s work experience includes an internship at Geneva Centre for Security Policy (2001), visiting fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC (2005–2006), BP visiting fellowship at Clare Hall, Cambridge University (2006) and a visiting fellowship at St Antony’s, Oxford University (2008).
Troitskiy has published in Russian and English on international security and negotiation theory, Russian foreign policy, U.S.-Russia, EU-Russia, and U.S.-EU relations. He contributed book chapters to Cambridge University Press,McGill-Queen’s University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, Palgrave, Praeger, Woodrow Wilson Center Press, and Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). His opinion editorials and commentary appeared in The International New York Times, The Moscow Times, Vedomosti, and RBC.
Troitskiy is a member of the Executive Committee of the Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia (PONARS Eurasia), Steering Committee of the Processes of International Negotiation (PIN) group of researchers, the Working Group on the Future of US-Russia Relations. He is a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University. Troitskiy serves on the editorial boards of International Trends and Russian Politics and Law journals and reviews manuscripts for International Studies Review, International Studies Perspectives, Problems of Post-Communism, Post-Soviet Affairs, and Conflict and Cooperation.
Troitskiy holds a doctoral degree (Cand.Polit.Sci) in Politics and International Relations from the Institute for the U.S. and Canadian Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences and a Specialist degree in International Relations from the School of International Relations, St. Petersburg State University. He can be reached at m.troitskiy@my.mgimo.ru
Book editing
- Fen Osler Hampson and Mikhail Troitskiy (eds.), Tug of War: Negotiating Security in Eurasia, (CIGI / McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017), ix+238 pp.
Reviewed in: Europe Asia Studies, 71:8 (October 2019), 1436-1437, DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2019.1664157
Articles (2010–2020)
- Pandemic Politics in Eurasia: Roadmap for a New Research Subfield, Problems of Post-Communism, October 2020 (co-authored), DOI: 10.1080/10758216.2020.1812404
- Why US-Russian arms control can succeed even in a climate of confrontation, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March-April 2020, DOI: 10.1080/00963402.2020.1728978
- Statecraft Overachievement: Sources of Scares in U.S.-Russian Relations, PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo #619, October 2019
- The Emerging Great Power Politics and Regionalism: How to Structure Effective Regional Conflict Management, Global Policy, Volume 10, Issue S2 (June 2019), pp. 14-21
- A Quarter-Century of Post-Cold War United States– Russia Negotiations: The Role of Balance of Power, Domestic Inertias, and Leadership Worldviews, PIN Points: Negotiation Perspectives, # 45-2018, pp. 18-22
- Leveraging Ambiguity in Foreign Relations, Yale Global, June 7, 2018
- Power, Status, and Entanglement: Russia’s Evolving Approach to Multilateral Institutions // Russian Politics & Law. #6 2016 (54:6), pp. 415-420
- The Need to Massage Egos: Status Politics as a Crucial Element of US-Russia Relations, PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo #445, October 2016
- Nuclear Escalation and the 'Russian World', Survival, Vol 57 No 2, April-May 2015, pp. 135-139.
- BRICS Approaches to Security Multilateralism, Air and Space Power Journal – Francophonie, 2nd Quarter 2015.
- Russia, the West and the Integration Dilemma, Survival, Vol 55 No 6, December 2013 - January 2014, pp. 49-62 (co-authored with Samuel Charap)
- Why Are National Interests Necessary? Russia in Global Affairs, #2-2015
- The Building and Unraveling of Security Communities, Carnegie Europe, July 9, 2013
- The China Factor in U.S.-Russia Relations, PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo 287, September 2013
- Assured Destruction vs. Low-Intensity Deterrence: Can Russia and the United States Adjust Their Nuclear Postures? PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo #266, July 2013
- The Security Dilemma and "Two-Level Games" in U.S.-Russia Relations, PONARS Policy Memo #176, September 2011.
- Eurasian Abrasions, The American Interest, March/April 2012 (co-authored with Samuel Charap)
- Containment Must be Overcome: Long Cycles of Russian-U.S. Relations, Russia in Global Affairs, October-December 2010
Book chapters
- Focal Points in Arms Control, in: J.-W. van der Rijt and R. Schuessler (eds.), Focal Points in Negotiation, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), pp. 103-123.
- When is 'Enough' Enough? Uncertainty in Negotiation, in: I.William Zartman (ed.), How Negotiations End, (Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 238-255.
- Negotiating Russia's Status in Post-Soviet Eurasia, in: Fen Osler Hampson and Mikhail Troitskiy (eds.), Tug of War: Negotiating Security in Eurasia, (CIGI / McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017), p. 19-34.
- Russia and the West in the European Security Architecture: Clash of Interests or a Security Dilemma? in: OSCE Yearbook 2015, Hamburg: Nomos Verlag, Hamburg Peace Research Institute, 2016, pp. 67-79.
- Going Relativistic: The Changing Vision of “Just International Order” in Russia Foreign Policy, in: Russia and Globalization: Identity, Security, and Society in the Era of Change, edited by Douglas W. Blum, (Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, John Hopkins University Press, 2008), pp. 207-231.
- “Russian Perspective on the Middle East”, in: The United States, Russia, and China: Confronting Global Terrorism and Security Challenges in the Twenty First Century, Paul Bolt, Sharyl Cross, Su Changhe (eds.), (New York: Praeger, 2008), pp. 166-175
- A Russian Perspective on the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, in: The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation: Past, Present and Future, SIPRI Policy Paper No. 17, May 2007, pp. 30-44
Analytical reports and papers
- Euro-Atlantic Security, in: Olga Oliker and Andrey Kortunov (eds.), A Roadmap for U.S.-Russia Relations, (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017), pp. 36-40 (co-authored with Lynn E. Davis).
- Two images of the security dilemma in U.S.-Russia relations, Paper presented at the ISA 2012 Annual Convention, San Diego, CA April 1-4, 2012
- U.S.-Russia Relations in Post-Soviet Eurasia: Transcending the Zero-Sum Game, Paper of the Working Group on the Future of U.S.-Russia Relations, (Moscow and Cambridge, MA: Higher School of Economics and Harvard University, September 2011) – co-authored with Samuel Charap
Select Commentary
- Russia in Conflict Mediation: New Opportunities, New Tactics? PIN Points: Negotiation Perspectives, #43-2016, pp. 30-32 (co-authored with I. William Zartman).
- Russia and NATO after the Warsaw Summit, Russian International Affairs Council, July 15, 2016
- Why Nuclear Weapons Are Strategically Useless? Russian International Affairs Council, August 17, 2015
- The Nuclear Factor in Global Politics: Myths and Reality, Russian International Affairs Council, August 10, 2015
- Political Deadlock over Nuclear Disarmament, Russian International Affairs Council, May 28, 2015
- Russia’s Syrian Dilemma, European Council on Foreign Relations, March 2, 2012
- Beyond Mutually Assured Destruction, Center for American Progress, July 6, 2011 (co-authored with Samuel Charap)
- The Myth of Yalta II, The International New York Times, March 9, 2011 (co-authored with Samuel Charap)
- Time to Put an End to MAD, The Moscow Times, January 18, 2011 (co-authored with Samuel Charap)
