Stepanova bio detail eng

Dr Ekaterina Stepanova

head, Peace and Conflict Studies Unit,
lead researcher, International Politics Department
Institute of the World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO),
Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Research focus: armed conflicts, terrorism and other forms of armed violence; peace-building; political economy of conflicts; conflicts and networks

Dr Stepanova is the author of six books, including Terrorism in Asymmetrical Conflict: Ideological and Structural Aspects (Oxford University Press, 2008), and 120 other publications in eight languages. Her latest edited volume is Terrorism: Patterns of Internationalization (New Delhi; London: Sage, 2009). She serves as an editorial board member of two SSCI journals: Terrorism and Political Violence (UK) and International Journal of Conflict and Violence (Germany).
Dr Stepanova lectures in English at the European University in Saint-Petersburg (IMARES and ENERPO M.A. programmes) and at the European Peace University, Austria (M.A. in Peace and Conflict Studies).
She is a member of the international expert panel of the Global Peace Index, the Joint U.S.-Russia Working Group on Afghan Narcotrafficking, and the Advisory board of "Security in Transition" programme, Department of International Development, London School of Economics (LSE).

Past work/academic experience

2001–2009  senior researcher, head, group on non-traditional threats,
                Center on International Security, IMEMO (including 2 academic leaves at SIPRI);
2007–2009  Programme Leader, Armed conflicts and conflict management programme,
                Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI);
2003          visiting researcher, SIPRI;
1995–2000  programme coordinator/researcher, Carnegie Moscow Center

2006–2009  invited lecturer, Geneva Centre for Security Policy
2003–2004  MacArthur Individual Research Fellowship
2000–2001  MacArthur Individual Research Fellowship
1998          MacArthur NGO Fellow, Center for Defence Studies, King's College, University of London

Academic degrees

2011     Doctor of Political Sciences (Dr.Habil. equiv.), IMEMO; dissertation on “Terrorism in asymmetrical conflict at the local/regional and global levels (ideological and organizational aspects)”
1998     Candidate of Sciences degree in History (PhD equiv.), Department of History, Moscow State University; dissertation on “The formation of modern US armed conflict management model, 1989–1997”
1995     University Diploma (MA equiv.) with Honours and Gold Medal from Moscow State University in modern and contemporary history studies of Western Europe and America; thesis on “The functioning of the US national security system (on the basis of the materials of the ‘Iran-Contra affair’)”