Andrei Shoumikhin, Ph.D.
DSS 632, DSS 708, DSS 799
Professional Experience
Missouri State University, Graduate Department of Defense and Strategic Studies, Faculty, 2009-Present
- DSS 708, DSS 632, DSS 702: International Security; Contemporary Security Issues in the Former USSR; Security Issues in the Caucasus and Central Asia.
National Institute for Public Policy, Senior Researcher, 1998-2009
- Coordination of the Joint US-Russian Study on Cooperation in Ballistic Missile Defense;
- Preparation of the Russian Arms Control Digest (RACD);
- Research, analysis and consulting on modernization of the Russian deterrence potential; US-Russian negotiations on arms control, and BM and WMD proliferation.
Moscow Public Science Foundation, Director, Washington Office, 1996-1998
- Edited and published special reports on BMD, WMD proliferation and counter-proliferation in cooperation with the National Institute for Public Policy;
- Managed studies on ethnic relations and conflict resolution in the New Independent States in association with the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace and the Helsinki Institute of Strategic Studies.
Education: Ph.D., Politcal Science, U.S. and Canada Institute, USSR Academy of Sciences 1992; M.A., International History, U.S. and Canada Institute, USSR Academy of Sciences 1979; B.A., Linguistics, Institute of Foreign Languages, Moscow Russia, 1964-1969.