Alina Polyakova

CHQ&A

On today's episode we hear from Alina Polyakova, the David M. Rubenstein Fellow at the Foreign Policy Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution, where she specializes in Russian foreign policy, radical-right movements in Europe, and far-right populism and nationalism. Alina presented an Amphitheater lecture during Chautauqua's week on "Russia and the West," on Thursday, July 19.

Alina previously served as director of research and senior fellow for Europe and Eurasia at the Atlantic Council, overseeing the Ukraine-in-Europe Initiative and co-authoring the Atlantic Council’s investigative report “Hiding in Plain Sight: Putin’s War in Ukraine.” She has also authored the book The Dark Side of European Integration. Alina is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Swiss National Science Foundation senior research fellow, and has had fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, National Science Foundation Eurasia Foundation, among a number of others. She earned her bachelor’s degree in economics and sociology from Emory University, and her master’s and doctoral degrees in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley.

Follow Alina on Twitter at @apolyakova.

Alina Polyakova's July 19 lecture in the Amphitheater:

• Video and audio: online.chq.org/…
• Coverage in The Chautauquan Daily: chqdaily.com/…