Angela E. Stent | |
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_(cropped).jpg) Angela Stent in 2016 | |
| Born | 1947 (age 77–78) |
| Education | Girton College, Cambridge (BA) London School of Economics (MSc) Harvard University (MA,PhD) |
| Occupation | Academic |
| Spouse | Daniel Yergin[1] |
| Website | AngelaStent.com |
Angela E. Stent is a British-born Americanforeign policy expert specializing in US and European relations with Russia andRussian foreign policy. She is professor emerita of Government and Foreign Service atGeorgetown University and senior advisor and director emerita of its Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies.[2] She is also a non-resident senior fellow at theBrookings Institution and a senior fellow at theAmerican Enterprise Institute.[3] She has served in the Office of Policy Planning in theUS State Department and as National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia.[4]
Born in London in 1947, Stent was educated atHaberdashers' Aske's School for Girls before going up toGirton College,Cambridge University, where she received her B.A. in economics and modern history. She earned a master's degree in international relations with distinction from theLondon School of Economics. She earned a second master's degree in Soviet studies atHarvard University.[4] She received her PhD from the Harvard Government Department.[5]
Stent joined the Government Department atGeorgetown University in 1979. In 2001, she received a joint appointment as Professor of Government and Foreign Service and became Director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies. At theBrookings Institution, she co-chairs the Hewitt Forum on Post-Soviet Affairs. From 1999 to 2001, she served in theOffice of Policy Planning in both theClinton andBush Administrations, where she was responsible for Russia and Eastern Europe. From 2004 to 2006, she was the National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia at theNational Intelligence Council. From 2008 to 2012, she was a member of Supreme Allied Commander in Europe advisory panel.[6]
Her first book, published in 1982 byCambridge University Press, wasFrom Embargo to Ostpolitik: the Political Economy of West German-Soviet Relations.[7] While researching this book, Stent was mugged in Moscow, according to an article she wrote inThe New York Times. She reported that the policeman investigating the case maintained it could not have happened, declaring, "We have no crime in the U.S.S.R."[8]Russia and Germany Reborn: Unification, the Soviet Collapse, and the New Europe[9] was her second book, published byPrinceton University Press in 1999. In it, she analyzed and narrated the tumultuous events that led to the end ofcommunism in Eastern Europe, the collapse of theSoviet Union, the emergence of modern Russia, and thereunification of West and East Germany.[10]Mikhail Gorbachev, former Communist Party First Secretary and then President of the Soviet Union, was among the interviewees for the book. When Stent asked Gorbachev what world leader he most admired, his answer was "Ronald Reagan was the greatest western statesman with whom I dealt. He was an intelligent and astute politician who had vision and imagination."[11]
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 After Words interview with Stent onThe Limits of Partnership, February 1, 2014,C-SPAN |
Stent's 2014 book,The Limits of Partnership: US-Russian Relations in the Twenty-First Century,[12] examines the difficulties for the United States in establishing a productive relationship withpost-Soviet Russia. Stent argues that four US presidents have pursued their own "resets" with Russia, each of which ended in disappointment. For her research for the book, Stent wasable to draw on[clarification needed] a decade of meetings[which?] thatVladimir Putin has held with Russia experts. At one, Stent asked Putin whether Russia was an energy superpower. He said that "superpower" was "a word we used during theCold War. I have never referred to Russia as an energy superpower. But we do have greater possibilities than almost any other country in the world. If we put together Russia's energy potential in all areas, oil, gas and nuclear, our country is unquestionably the leader."[13]
In 2014, Stent was awarded the American Academy'sDouglas Dillon Award for excellent authorship on topics of American diplomacy byThe American Academy of Diplomacy.[14]
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| After Words interview with Stent onPutin's World, March 16, 2019,C-SPAN |
Stent's bookPutin's World: Russia Against the West and with the Rest was published in February 2019.[15][16] It assesses Putin's view of Russia's place in the world through examining Russia's ongoing relationships with allies and adversaries, specifically narrowing in on Russia's downward spiral withNATO,Europe, and theUnited States and its ties toChina,Japan, and theMiddle East, in addition to its neighbors likeUkraine.[17][18]
Stent argues that "as theTrump team accelerates the U.S. retreat from the Middle East, Mr. Putin has been quick to spot and take advantage of openings, and he operates without many of the constraints of his Soviet predecessors. The U.S. will have to get used to dealing with a savvy rival for influence in the Middle East."[19] It considers how Russia has no real allies and speculates what may occur to the country and its geopolitical identity upon the ending of Putin's term in 2024 and how the West should respond to Russia moving forward.[20]
Stent is on the advisory board of Women in International Security (WIIS),[21][22] an organization dedicated to promoting women's careers in the national security area. Stent played a key role in WIIS's conferences inTallinn andPrague.[23] In 2008 she received aFulbright Fellowship[24] to teach at theMoscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) and was a George H.W. Bush-Axel Springer Berlin Prize Fellow at theAmerican Academy in Berlin. She co-chaired the Carnegie Corporation's Working Group on U.S-Russian Relations from 2008 to 2012 and was a Co-Convenor of the US-Russian "Second Track" Discussions. She served as a Trustee of the Eurasia Foundation.[25] She is a contributing editor toSurvival: Global Politics and Strategy[26] and has written numerous articles for academic and general publications such asThe Wall Street Journal,The Washington Post, andThe New York Times. She has also appeared onThe PBS News Hour,CNN,BBC, as well as other major U.S. and German networks.
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