Associate Professor
M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia Unversity
Certificate, Harriman Institute, Columbia University

Office:  1728 HW
Voice:  212.772.5502
Fax:    212.650.3669
Email:  croberts@hunter.cuny.edu  
Hrs:    On Leave Spring 2009

Areas of Specialization:
International Relations, International Security, Transatlantic and European Security; Post-Communist Transitions, Russian Politics, Foreign, and Military Policy.

Courses:   
POLSC 115:  Introduction to International Politics
POLSC 282:  International Security
POLSC 377:  Theories of International Politics
POLSC 378:  Russian National Interest:Past & Present
POLSC 379:  War and Strategy
POLSC 380:  European Security
HONS 301.25:  Political and Economic Transitions in Post-Communist Countries

Bio:  Prof. Roberts teaches international relations at Hunter College and is also an Adjunct Senior Associate and Adjunct  Associate Professor at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University.  Previously, Dr. Roberts was Director of the Russian Area Studies Graduate Program at Hunter and also served on the Executive Committee on Science, Arms Control, and National Security of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She has held research fellowships at the Brookings Institution and Stanford University, received several grants, including from the Ford Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and served as a consultant on international security issues. Prof. Roberts is currently a member of the John J. McCloy Round table on Setting the National Security Agenda at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and also on the international board of trustees of the Centre for European Security in Moscow. 

Publications:  Prof. Roberts is the author of a monograph on Russia and the European Union: The Sources and Limits of ‘Special Relationships’ (2007).  Her articles on international security problems and Russian affairs have appeared in such journals as Comparative Politics, Survival, Europe-Asia Studies, The Washington Quarterly, Journal of Cold War Studies, Technology Review and others, as well as in books on these subjects. 

Selected Current Research:  

• book project on the problematic partnerships between the leading Euro-Atlantic institutions -- NATO, E.U. and the G-8 -- and Russia and Ukraine, the two most important postcommunist non-member states.
• Coordinator, project on “The BRICs as ‘Responsible Stakeholders?’ Implications for the United States, Great Power Competition and World Order,” for a panel at the 2009 Annual ISA Convention and a journal special issue; including papers on “Russia’s Re-Emergence and the Struggle over Global Engagement” and "American Primacy and the BRICs:  Prospects for Promoting 'Responsible Global Stakeholders' and World Order."  
  

Useful documents:
Core IR concepts covered in POLSC 115
Getting a letter of recommendation
IR Internships