Associate Professor
Ph.D. Princeton University, 1998

Fields:  post-communist transformations, comparative politics, international political economy

Dr. Barnes' teaching interests are politics of post-communist states, politics of democratization and marketization, comparative politics, research methods, international political economy, and international relations. His most recent publications include:

• Extricating the State: The Move to Competitive Capture in Post-Communist Bulgaria,” Europe-Asia Studies, 59:1 (January 2007), 71-95.
• Owning Russia:The Struggle Over Factories, Farms, and Power (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006).
• “Putin as Gerschenkron + Hamilton + Baldwin? Understanding the Russian Approach to Global Integration,” in Post-Cold War Challenges to International Relations, ed. Yuri Akimov and Dmitri Katsy (St. Petersburg, Russia: Saint Petersburg University Press, 2006), 24-50.
• “Reform Is Not Its Own Reward: Thinking about Success in Post-Communist Agrarian Transformations,” in Evaluating Success and Failure in Post-Communist Reform, ed. Hilary Appel, The Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies, Monograph Series #16 (Claremont, CA: Claremont McKenna College, 2005).
• "Russia’s New Business Groups and State Power," Post-Soviet Affairs, 19:2 (April-June 2003), 154-186.
• "What Do We Know Now? Post-Communist Economic Reform Through a Russian Lens" (review article), Comparative Politics, 35:4 (July 2003), 477-497.
• "Comparative Theft: Context and choice in the Hungarian, Czech, and Russian Transformations, 1989-2000," East European Politics and Societies, 17:3 (Summer 2003), 533-565.
• "Political Foundations of Post-Communist Regimes: Marketization, Agrarian Legacies, or International Influences?" (with Marcus Kurtz), Comparative Political Studies (September 2002).

e-mail: abarnes3@kent.edu

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