Globalization and Human Rights talk by Nina Belyeava

SOAN Colloquium

Thursday, April 29, 2010 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM EDT
Johnson Center Room D

Professor Nina Belyeava, Professor and Chair of the Department of Public Policy at Higher School of Economics in Moscow will be giving a talk on Globalization and Human Rights.  

Professor Belyeava's teaching interest focus on Civil Society and the State in Russia, Political Analysis of Public Policy Decisions: Interests of Public & Political Clients, Centers for Public Policy: mechanisms of political influence, Think Tanks as Agents of Policymaking, Organizing the Negotiation Process - Participants and Technologies

Professor Belyeava's recent publications include: Public Policy in Contemporary Russia: Actors and Institutions/ Edited by Nina Belyaeva, (2006); Constitutional Development of Russian Federation: Tascs for New Institutional Design/ Edited by Nina Belyaeva, (2007); Policy in Russia:  Overcoming Resistance of Environment, Polis Research Journal (2007);  Comparative Quantity Analysis of Civil Society Development in 3 Regions of Russian Federation, co-authored with Aleskerov and others, State Institute of Governance, Moscow (2206) and the "Dictionary of Political Parties of Russia"

Professor Belyeava has served as Chair for Coordinating Council, "We, the Citizens!" Coalition of non-governmental organization in Russia and NIS. She has served as a member of  Expert Working Group, European Guidelines for Freedom of Peaceful Assembly, OSCE & ODIHR and Expert Working Group on Enabling Legal Environment for CSOs at the World Bank.

She was visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University, Georgetown University, Salzburg University Law School and the Graduate Institute on Democracy and Diversity University of Cape Town. She has also been a visiting fellow at Center for Strategic and International Studies and Senior Research Fellow in Residence at United States Institute of Peace.