Dr. Anna Ohanyan is the Richard B. Finnegan Distinguished Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Stonehill College in Massachusetts. She is a two-time Fulbright Scholar and a Non-resident Senior Scholar in the Russia/Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Ohanyan has authored, edited, and co-edited five books and numerous academic articles. Her most recent book is The Neighborhood Effect: The Imperial Roots of Regional Fracture in Eurasia, published with Stanford University Press in 2022. She has contributed to BBC, PBS, Foreign Policy, the Washington Post, Bloomberg-Asia, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CNBC-Asia, MSNBC, Al Jazeera, and The Washington Quarterly, among many other news outlets and policy journals.

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