Yuval Weber
Professional affiliation
Wilson Center Projects
Designed to Fail: Patterns in Russian Economic Reforms, 1861-2018
Full Biography
Yuval Weber, PhD, is a Research Assistant Professor at Texas A&M’s Bush School of Government and Public Service in Washington, DC. Previously he was an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at the National Research University - Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia) and a Center Associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. Dr. Weber served as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department on Government at Harvard University. Dr. Weber is working on a project on the sources of liberal and anti-liberal dissatisfaction for powers in the international system and the strategies they employ to stake their claims for revising the international order. The first manuscript under contract (Agenda/Columbia UP) evaluates the tension between demands of economic modernization and the security state in Russian political economy, and will be completed while at WWC. His work has appeared in Problems of Post-Communism, International Studies Review, Survival, Cold War Studies, Orbis, and the Washington Post.
Major Publications
- Publication One“Commitment Issues: The Syrian and Ukraine Crises as Bargaining Failures of the Post- Cold War International Order” -- Problems of Post-Communism
- Publication Two“What Can Russia Teach us About Change in International Politics?” -- International Studies Review
- Publication Three“An Illiberal World Order? The BRICS Challenge to The U.S.-Led Political Order” -- Orbis