Paul D'Anieri

Associate Dean, Humanities

email: p-danieri@ku.edu

Paul D'Anieri is a Professor of Political Science and Associate Dean for the Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Kansas.

Professor D'Anieri's research focuses on politics and foreign policy in contemporary Ukraine . He spent 1993-1994 in Ukraine on a Fulbright Grant, and since then has written a series of articles and books on the link between economics and security in Ukrainian-Russian relations. These include Economic Interdependence in Ukrainian Russian Relations (SUNY, 1999) and, with Robert Kravchuk and Taras Kuzio, Politics and Society in Ukraine (Westview, 1999). More recently, he has written on the rise of neo-authoritarian rule in Ukraine and its implications for Ukrainian foreign relations. He currently is completing a book entitled: Institutional Design versus Power Politics: The Erosion of Democracy in Post-Soviet Ukraine.

Professor D'Anieri received his BA in International Relations from Michigan State University and his MA and Ph.D. from Cornell University.