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Brian Taylor

Brian Taylor

Professor of Political Science | Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University

Brian Taylor is a professor of political science at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. His research focuses on Russia and the post-Soviet region. Taylor is the author of State Building in Putin’s Russia: Policing and Coercion After Communism and Politics and the Russian Army: Civil-Military Relations, 1689-2000. He has also written extensively on Russian elite politics, including the nature of Putinism, and has interests in comparative state-building and civil-military relations.

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