Jeffrey Mankoff, a specialist in Eurasian/Russian affairs, is Associate Director of International Security Studies at Yale University and adjunct fellow for Russia studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Previously, he was a John M. Olin National Security fellow at the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, Harvard University; Henry Chauncey Fellow in Grand Strategy, Yale University; and a fellow at Moscow State University.

Dr. Mankoff has written on a range of topics connected to post-Soviet politics and foreign policy. He is the author of the book Russian Foreign Policy: The Return of Great Power Politics, as well as numerous journal articles and op-eds. His areas of functional expertise include great power relations, foreign policy decision making, ethnic conflict, and energy security.

In addition to research, he has taught classes at Yale on Russian foreign policy, as well as modern diplomatic and military history. He received his PhD and MPhil in history and his MA in political science from Yale, and his BA in international studies and Russian from the University of Oklahoma.

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