Andrew C. Kuchins
Senior Fellow
Andrew Kuchins is an internationally acclaimed expert on the international relations of Russia, Central Asia, and Eurasia. Most recently, he served as the President of the American University of Central Asia in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. He was Director of the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (2007-2015) and at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (2000-2003, 2006), where he also directed their Carnegie Moscow Center (2003-2005). He has held research and teaching positions at the University of California Berkeley, Stanford University, Georgetown University, and currently is an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.
Kuchins has authored, co-authored, and edited six books and published more than one hundred scholarly articles, book chapters, policy studies and reports as well as op-eds in leading newspapers including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal and many others. He is a frequent public speaker and often called upon for expert analysis by leading media including CNN, Fox News, NPR, ABC, NBC, and many others. He has testified before Congress multiple times.
Kuchins received his MA and PhD degrees from Johns Hopkins SAIS, and his BA with high honors from Amherst College.
Programs:
Events:
- Nuclear Power in Central Asia: The New “New Thing”?, 28 January 2025.
- Report Launch: Afghanistan’s Qoshtepa Canal and Water Security in Central Asia, 5 December 2024.
- The Ukraine War: Perspectives from Northeast Asia, 20 November 2024.
- The Middle Corridor Linking Asia and Europe: Promise and Challenges, 16 October 2024.
- The China-Central Asia Crossroads, 25 July 2024.
- Perspectives on Central Asian Hydrocarbons, Pipelines, and Transit Corridors, 30 May 2024.
- The Gulf States and Central Asia: Converging Foreign Policies?, 25 April 2024.
- Afghanistan and Central Asia Since the Taliban Takeover, 28 March 2024.
- Russia’s Changing Profile and Influence in Central Asia, 22 February 2024.
- Should Washington Talk to Moscow Now?, 23 January 2024.
Recent Publications:
- Afghanistan’s Qoshtepa Canal and Water Security in Central Asia, CFTNI Report, November 2024.
- The Perils of “Putinism”, The National Interest, 7 May 2024.
- Vladimir Putin’s Chechen Time Bomb, The National Interest, 2 May 2024.
- An “Enlightened” Alternative After Putin?, The National Interest, 23 April 2024.
- The Grim Reaper and the Whipping Boy: Why the Patrushevs Won’t Run the Kremlin, The National Interest, 18 January 2024.
- After Putin, a Putina?, The National Interest, 28 December 2023.
- How Did We Get Russia So Wrong?, The National Interest, 15 November 2023.