Tracey German is a Professor of Conflict and Security in the Defence Studies Department and a Senior Associate Fellow at RUSI. Her research focuses on Russian foreign and security policies, particularly Russia’s use of force, and how its neighbours have responded, as well as Russian strategic culture and military thought. She speaks Russian and has travelled extensively across the post-Soviet area.

Research Interests

• Russian foreign and security politics
• Russian views of the changing character of conflict
• Russian strategic culture and its use of force in the post-Soviet era
• Conflict and security in the Caucasus and Caspian regions

Her current research explores Russian views of the changing character of conflict and what lessons Russia has drawn from Western military activity over the past two decades.

Publications

Research Articles

• ‘Russia and the South Caucasus: The China Challenge’, Europe-Asia Studies, May 2022, DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2022.2071843

• Harnessing Protest Potential: Russian strategic culture and the coloured revolutions’, Contemporary Security Policy, May 2020 DOI: 10.1080/13523260.2020.1757251
• ‘A legacy of conflict: Kosovo, Russia and the West’, Comparative Strategy, Vol 38, No 5, October 2019, DOI: 10.1080/01495933.2019.1653040
• ‘Re-visioning war and the state in the twenty-first century’, guest editor of International Affairs special issue, Vol 95, No 4, July 2019, pp. 759-764
• ‘The (re)-politicisation of international relations in the post-Soviet space’, East European Politics, May 2019, DOI: 10.1080/21599165.2019.1614920
• ‘NATO and the enlargement debate: enhancing Euro-Atlantic security or inciting confrontation?’, International Affairs, Vol. 93, No. 2, March 2017, pp. 291-308

Books

• Russia and the Changing Character of Conflict (Cambria Press, 2023)
• Georgia’s Foreign Policy: Diplomacy, Strategy and Regional Power in the Caucasus (London: Bloomsbury, 2022). Edited with Kornely Kakachia and Stephen Jones

Book chapters

• ‘Learning the wrong lessons: Russian views of the changing character of conflict’ in Marc Ozawa (ed.) War changes everything: Russia after Ukraine. NDC Research Paper No. 28 (February 2023), NATO Defence College: Rome, pp. 39-48.
• ‘NATO partners: Georgia and Ukraine’ in Handbook on the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
• ’Russia-Chechnya: from National Liberation to Deterrence Stability’ in Deterring Terrorism: A Model for Strategic Deterrence (New York: Routledge, 2018), pp. 159-180. ISBN 978-1-138-24060-5
• ’Pipeline Politics: the South Caucasus and European energy security’ in The South Caucasus – Security, Energy and Europeanisation (Abingdon: Routledge, 2018), pp. 181-195. ISBN 978-1-138-85863-3
• ‘Russia's Energy Power’ in Assessing Russia's Power: a report. Natasha Kuhrt & Valentina Feklyunina (eds.), 2017. p. 25-28.

Reports

• ‘Security challenges at the EU’s Eastern border – what role for CSDP?’, In-depth Analysis, January 2022, commissioned by the European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/IDAN/2022/653653/EXPO_IDA(2022)653653_EN.pdf

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