Matthew A Rojansky
Visiting Scholar
I am a Visiting Scholar in the Government Department at Dartmouth College and President and CEO of the U.S. Russia Foundation. My work focuses on the history, strategy, and practice of U.S.–Russia relations, with an emphasis on pragmatic engagement, civil society, media freedom, and the geopolitical evolution of the Eurasian region.
At Dartmouth, I co-teach GOVT 52: Russian Foreign Policy with Professor William Wohlforth. My academic and policy career has centered on bridging scholarship and practice in international security and foreign policy. From 2013 to 2022, I served as Director of the Kennan Institute, and I currently chair its Board of Directors. I was also U.S. Executive Secretary of the Dartmouth Conference, the long-running Track II U.S.–Russian dialogue founded in 1960.
Earlier in my career, I was Deputy Director of the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Executive Director of the Partnership for a Secure America. I have held research appointments at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, the NATO Defense College, and served as a law clerk to Judge Charles E. Erdmann on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. I previously taught at American University and Johns Hopkins SAIS and lecture widely in the United States and internationally.
I received my B.A. in history from Harvard College and my J.D. from Stanford Law School. I divide my time between Washington, DC and the Upper Valley, where I also serve as a firefighter and emergency medical responder with the Norwich Fire Department.
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Department(s)
Government
Education
- J.D. Stanford Law School
- A.B. Harvard College
Selected Publications
A History of Ukraine, edited volume with Mykhailo Minakov and Georgiy Kasyanov. Ibidem-Verlag/Columbia University Press, 2021.
A Kennan for Our Times: George F. Kennan's Ideas and 21st Century Policy Challenges, edited volume with Michael Kimmage, Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2019.
Perceptions of the OSCE in Europe and the USA: Chapter titled "USA – Key platform for reducing risks of direct conflict between major powers." Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, June 2018.
Military Review: "What Kind of Victory for Russia in Syria?," January-February, 2018.
The Former Soviet Union and East-Central Europe between Conflict and Reconciliation: Chapter titled "Russian-Ukrainian Relations: Conflict and Reconciliation over Shared History." Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht Verlage, Research in Peace and Reconciliation (RIPAR) series, December 2018.
The Journal of Central and East European Law: "Corporate Raiding in Ukraine: Prevention, Defense and Policy Reform," Fall 2014.
NATO Defense College Research Paper: "George F. Kennan, Containment, and the West's Current Russia Problem," January 2016.
Security and Human Rights: "The Geopolitics of European Security and Cooperation: The Consequences of U.S.-Russia Tension," July 2015.
Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization: "Corporate Raiding in Ukraine: Causes, Methods and Consequences," Summer 2014.
Riga Conference Papers 2014: "Is there a role for historical reconciliation after the Ukraine conflict?," September 2014.
Strategic Stability Institute Monograph: Chapter on Russian views of strategic stability and nuclear deterrence (2013).
Stanford Journal of International Law: Review of Lindsay Moir's The Law of Internal Armed Conflict, Issue 39.1 (2003).
Speaking Engagements
July 2023, Seminars at Steamboat: "Russia Ukraine and Beyond--Challenges for the U.S."