Both Senators McCain and Obama have condemned Russia’s military offensive in Georgia. Professor Andrei Tsygankov believes that “Senator McCain needs national security issues to be in front of these elections to be able to win” and that Senator Obama “has not established any differences on foreign policy issues from McCain and is therefore competing against […]
Author Archives: Professor Andrei Tsygankov
Andrei P. Tsygankov is Professor at the departments of Political Science and International Relations at San Francisco State University. He teaches Russian/post-Soviet, comparative, and international politics since August 2000. A Russian native, Tsygankov is a graduate of Moscow State University (Candidate of Sciences, 1991) and University of Southern California (Ph.D., 2000).
Tsygankov published widely in Western and Russian academia. In the West, he co-edited New Directions in Russian International Studies (2004), and he published Pathways after Empire: National Identity and Foreign Economic Policy in the Post-Soviet World (2001), Whose World Order? Russia’s Perception of American Ideas after the Cold War (2004), and Russia’s Foreign Policy: Change and Continuity in National Identity (2006), as well as many journal articles. In Russia, his best known books are Russian Science of International Relations (2005, co-edited with Pavel Tsygankov, also published in Germany and China) and Sociology of International Relations (2006, co-authored with Pavel Tsygankov, also published in China).
