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	• Professor Michael N. Schmitt Dean and Professor of International Law • Ralph R. "Rick" Steinke Deputy Dean (U.S.) • Dr. Robert Brannon Director, Program in Advanced Security Studies and Professor of National Security Studies • Colonel Steven J. Briggs Executive Director, Program for Security, Stability, Transition and Reconstruction • Colonel Todd Brown Military Professor of International Security Studies • Lieutenant Colonel Christopher G. Cavoli Deputy Director, Program in Security, Stability, Transition and Reconstruction • Rear Admiral (L) Alberto Cervone Professor of Security Studies • Dr. John L. Clarke Professor of Leadership, Management and Defense Planning and Director, Program on Civil Security • Dr. Sabine Collmer Director, Research Program • Dr. Sharyl Cross Professor of National Security Studies • Colonel Peter Durr Deputy Director, Senior Executive Seminar and Professor of Security Studies • Captain Dean L. Dwigans Judge Advocate General’s Corps - U.S. Navy • Mr. Alexander Borissovitch Garin Professor of National Security Strategy • Dr. Gregory Gleason Professor of Eurasian Security Studies • Dr. Christopher C. Harmon Director, Program on Terrorism and Security Studies • Dr. Natalie Hassman Professor of Eurasian Studies • Commander Diplom Ingenieur Andreas Hildenbrand Lecturer and Tutor • Lieutenant Colonel John J. Kane III, USMC Deputy Director, Program on Terrorism and Security Studies • Dr. Elena Kovalova Professor of National Security Studies • Professor John Kriendler Professor of NATO and European Security Issues • Dr. John J. LeBeau Professor of Strategy and Security Studies • Colonel Jeff Lee Military Professor of International Security Studies • Colonel Donald Jack Liles Commandant of the Marine Corps Chair • Dr. Dragan Lozancic Professor of Security Studies • Dr. Andrew A. Michta Professor of National Security Studies and Director of Studies of the Senior Executive Seminar • Dr. Ann L. Phillips Director, Program for Security, Stability, Transition & Reconstruction • Professor Andrew Nichols (Nick) Pratt, Colonel, USMC (Ret.) Professor of Strategy and International Politics • Lieutenant Colonel Jeff Predmore Deputy Director, Program in Advanced Security Studies • Professor Fritz Rademacher Professor of International Security Studies • Lieutenant General (ret.) Jean-Paul Raffenne Director, Senior Executive Seminar • Dr. Matthew Rhodes Professor of National Security Studies • PD Dr. Ralf Roloff Senior German Professor • Colonel Peter Schneider Professor for Security Policy • Lieutenant Colonel (GS) Nicolas v. Thaden (German Army) Military Professor and Deputy Director, Program in Advanced Security Studies • Dr. John (Jack) M. Treddenick Professor of Defense Economics • Lieutenant Colonel (GS) Hans-Joerg Voll (German Army) Military Professor and Deputy Director, Program for Security, Stabilization, Transition and Reconstruction • Dr. Petra Weyland Professor of Middle Eastern Affairs • James Kenneth Wither (UK) Professor of National Security Studies; Director, Fellows Program • Brigadier-General Mag. Karl-Alexander Wohlgemuth Professor, Program for Advanced Security Studies

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Dr. Elena Kovalova
Professor of National Security Studies
College of International and Security Studies

Elena Kovalova is Professor of National Security Studies in the College of International and Security Studies at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies. Dr. Kovalova teaches in the Program in Advanced Security Studies. She lectures on democratization, good governance, and security, transnational crime and corruption, as well as on the security interactions of Russia and its neighboring states. As a guest lecture, Dr. Kovalova regularly teaches at the NATO School in Oberammergau, Germany.

Dr. Kovalova came to the Marshall Center from the National Institute for Strategic Studies of Ukraine, where she held the position of the Head of Foreign Policy Division. Her academic credentials include three graduate degrees in directly related disciplines: political science (Doctor of Sciences in Politics from the Institute of Politics and International Relations, Ukraine), European studies (Central European University, Czech Republic), and political history (Candidate of Sciences, Kiev National University, Ukraine). She is a graduate of the Executive Program in International and Security Affairs at the Marshall Center and the NATO School in Oberammergau, Germany.

Dr. Kovalova was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Oxford in 1993-94. She was also awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowship (Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Kansas, 2001-02) and British Academy Visiting Fellowship (University of Oxford, 1997).

For the last fifteen years, she has led or been a researcher in numerous international research projects in the fields of transitional politics, international affairs, and security studies. She has collaborated with colleagues from the John Hopkins University, University of Colorado, Bristol University, the University of West England, University of Kansas, Free University of Berlin, Central European University, Moscow State University, University of Moldova, and other educational establishments.

Dr. Kovalova was directly involved in higher education transformation in the post-communist world through participation in Yale University’s Civic Education Project. Since 2003 she has provided academic expertise for such programs of the European Commission as TACIS and TEMPUS. Since 2006, Dr. Kovalova has been participating in the projects of the Partnership for Peace Consortium of Defense Academies and Security Studies Institutes on reform of political military education in transition states.

Dr. Kovalova is a member of the American Political Science Association, International Political Science Association, International Council for Central and East European Studies, and International Society for Studies of European Ideas. She have authored or edited three books/monographs and over 40 articles on international relations, European studies, and security studies. Her papers have been published in Austria, England, Germany, Italy, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine, and the United States.

Publications

The Expanding Security Agenda: Challenges for Transition States, Connections, 2008, Vol. V/, No 1, pp. 167-177.
Ukraine’s Role in Changing Europe in The New Eastern Europe, Uniting or Dividing Europe and Eurasia? / Daniel Hamilton and Gerhard Mangott (Eds.), Washington, D.C.: SAIS, The John’s Hopkins University, 2007, pp. 173-197.
Regional Politics in Ukraine’s Transition: The Donetsk Elite in Re-Constructing the Post-Soviet Industrial Region: The Donbas in Transition/ Adam Swain (Ed.), London: Routledge, BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies, 2007, pp. 62-78.
Ukraine and Europe, Elena Kovalova, Anatoliy Galchinski, and Alexander Vlasyuk Eds., Kiev: NISS, 2005 (526 pp).
European Neighborhood Policy: What is New for Ukraine? Strategic Panorama, 2005, No 1, pp. 13-29.
Wider Europe: Problems of Crossborder Cooperation in Rozchirennya Evropeyskogo Soyuzu: Novi Mozhlyvosti i perspektyvy, Kyiv: NISD, 2004, pp. 59-66.
Common Foreign and Security Policy: Before and After Enlargement, Strategic Panorama, 2004, No 2, pp. 34-46.
Entering Western International Organizations: Belongingness to ‘Political Europe’ or Belongingness to Western Civilization? In Suchasna tsivilizatsiya: gumanitarny aspect. Zbirnyk naukovykh prats, Kyiv: Akademperiodyka, 2004, pp. 344-363.
Strategies of European Integration: How to Realize Ukraine’s European Choice, Kyiv: Instytut Derzhavy i Prava, 2003 (340 pp).
Achieving Consensus?: Negotiation Phase of the Accession Process, Lyudyna i Polityka, 2003, No 4, pp. 18-27.
Approximation of Law in the CEE Candidate States: Political Aspects, Pravo Ukrayiny, 2003, No 9, pp. 138-142.
Assistance to Reforms in the CEE Candidate States as a Part of the EU Enlargement Strategy, Nova Paradygma, 2003, No 33, pp. 182-193.
Communication Strategy of Enlargement as Political Instrument of the Integration Legitimization, Grani, 2003, No 5, pp. 138-142.
EU and NATO Conditionality as a Factor of Domestic Transformations in the CEE Region, Derzhava i Pravo, 2003, Vol. 21, pp. 600-605.
Copenhagen Criteria of the EU Membership, Suchasna Ukrayinska Polityka, 2003, Vol. 4, pp. 224-233.
Enlargement of NATO and EU: Risks or Advantages for Ukraine? Grani, 2003, No 2, pp. 79-83.
Evaluation of Political Institutions in the Candidate States: EU Methodology in Lyudyna i Polityka, 2003, No 1, pp. 3-9.
Notion of Asymmetrical Integration in Eastern Policy of the EU, Nova Paradygma, 2003, No 31, pp. 177-185.
Integration Strategies of the CEE States: Comparative Perspective, Rozshirennya EC, 2003, No 1, pp. 20-38.
Political and Legal Aspects of Accession to the EU, Pravo Ukrayiny, 2003, No 4, pp. 119-123.
Political Risks of Enlargement: Myths and Realities, Derzhava i Pravo, 2003, No 20, pp. 499-505.
Public Opinion on Enlargement in the West and East, Tribuna, 2003, No 9-10, pp. 38-39.
State Paradigm: Conceptualization of Eastward Enlargement, Nova Paradygma, 2003, No 29, pp. 85-90.
Western Neighbors on the Eve of Enlargement: Implications for Regional Stability, Grani, 2003, No 4, pp. 124-129.
Who will Support ‘European Choice’ of Ukraine? Decision Making in the Enlarged EU, VICHE, 2003, No 8, pp. 28-32.
Transnationalism, Module, Teaching International Relations Online, Berlin: Free University, 2002, available online: http://www.ir-online.org.
Future of European Integration in Political Documents of the EU, Grani, 2002, No 5, pp. 117-125.
Ukraine and EU: Misunderstandings and Cooperation, Lyudyna i polityka, 2002, No 6, pp. 22-30.
State Innovation Policy and Integration into Security Space, Nova Paradygma, 2002, No 27, pp. 111-118.
European Security and Ukraine, Naukovi Zapiski IPiEND NAN Ukrayiny, 2001, p. 307-324.
Internationalization of Ukraine: If Winner Takes All, Who Is Going Global? in Patchworks of Russian Transition/ Klaus Segbers (Ed.), London: Ashgate, 2001, Vol.3, pp. 281-329.
From Elitism through Corporatism to Pluralism? The Role of Elites in the Political Transition of Ukraine, Budapest: Open Society Institute, Center for Publishing Development; VIRTUS, 1999, (120 pp.) available online: http://rss.archives.ceu.hu/archive/00001026/01/27.pdf
Challenges of Multi-Vector Foreign Policy: Ukraine Between East and West in Abstracts, Helsinki: International Council for Central and East European Studies, Finnish Institute for Russian and East European Studies, 2000.
The Role of Transnational Actors in International Relations (The Role of NGO’s in the Global World) in Globalization of Eastern Europe: Teaching International Relations Without Borders/ Klaus Segbers, Kerstin Imbusch, Eds., Hamburg: LIT, 2000, pp. 431-465.
Progress and Issues of Reforming Social Science Teaching in Ukraine, CEP Discussion Series, Vol. 1, No 3 (Jan. 2000), 15 p.; in digital format available on http://www.cep.org.hu
Elite Dimension of Transition in Ukraine in Memory, History and Critique: European Identity at the Millennium, Proceedings of the Fifth Conference of The International Society for Study of European Ideas (ISSIE), Utrecht: University for Humanist Studies, 1998 (Eds. Frank Brinkhuis & Sascha Talmor).
Institutionalization of the Shadow Economy and Politics in Ukraine in Transition in Central and Eastern Europe, Ed. by Sevic, Z. and Wright, G., Belgrade: Yugoslav Association of Sasakawa Fellows, 1997, Vol. 1, pp. 424-436.
Different Styles of Political Transitions: The Case of Ukraine, in European Legacy, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996, Vol.1, pp. 350-355.

Last updated: June 18, 2008