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About Samuel Charap

Senior Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation

Dr. Samuel Charap is a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation. His research interests include the foreign and security policies of Russia and the former Soviet states; European and Eurasian regional security; and US-Russia deterrence, strategic stability, and arms control. From November 2012 until April 2017, Charap was the senior fellow for Russia and Eurasia at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Prior to joining the IISS, he was a CFR International Affairs Fellow at the US Department of State, where he served as senior advisor to the Undersecretary for Arms Control and International Security and on the Secretary’s Policy Planning Staff, covering Russia and Eurasia. Charap’s book on the Ukraine crisis, Everyone Loses: The Ukraine Crisis and the Ruinous Contest for Post-Soviet Eurasia (coauthored with Timothy J. Colton), was published in January 2017. His articles have appeared in the Washington QuarterlyForeign AffairsSurvivalCurrent HistoryFinancial Times, the New York Times, and several other journals and newspapers. He holds a doctorate in political science and a master’s degree in Russian and East European studies from the University of Oxford, where he was a Marshall Scholar.

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Present Editorial Board Member, US Army War College Parameters
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