Arik Burakovsky

Arik Burakovsky is Associate Director of the Center for Expanding Viewpoints in Higher Education at Tufts University. He previously served as Associate Director of the Russia and Eurasia Program and the Hitachi Center for Technology and International Affairs at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. His research interests include Russian foreign policy and political economy, soft power, public diplomacy, and international relations forecasting. Before completing his M.A. in Law and Diplomacy from The Fletcher School, Arik interned in the Public Affairs Section at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. He studied the Polish language and culture as a Boren Fellow at the University of Warsaw in Poland. He was also a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Omsk, Russia, and he served twice as Resident Director of the ROTC Project GO intensive summer Russian language program in Narva, Estonia. He has written for The Conversation, TIME, The National Interest, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and other online and print publications. Arik received his B.A. in Political Science and International Relations from the University of California, San Diego.