Areas of Expertise

• Putin’s operational code
• Russian strategic culture
• Russian foreign and security policy
• Russian strategic behavior

Academic Degrees

• Ph.D., Russian History, University of Aberdeen
• Master of Arts, History-Classical Studies (Joint Hons), Aberdeen University

Graeme P. Herd, Ph.D., joined the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in January 2015. He is a professor of transnational security studies in the Research and Policy Analysis Department. He runs a monthly virtual seminar series examining Russian crisis behavior, the Russia-China nexus, and the implications of this relationship for the U.S., Germany, partners, and allies.  

Prior to joining the Marshall Center, Herd was a professor of international relations and founding director of the School of Government, as well as associate dean of the Faculty of Business at the University of Plymouth, U.K. (2013-2014). He previously served as a faculty member at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (2005-2013). Herd was a British Council Scholar in Moscow (1991-1992) and a fellow at both the Tampere Peace Research Institute and Copenhagen Peace Research Institute in the 1990s.

Herd has published eleven books, written more than 70 academic papers, and delivered more than 100 academic and policy-related presentations in 46 countries.