Dr. Andrei Korobkov is an Adjunct Distinguished Visiting Fellow at The Peninsula Foundation. He is a Professor of Political Science and International Relations and the Russian Studies Minor Director at Middle Tennessee State University. In 2015–18, he also served as MA in International Affairs Graduate Director. He held a part time position at the RAS Institute for Socio-Political Studies in Moscow and is an Invited Researcher at MGIMO-University. He graduated from Moscow State University and holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Institute of International Economic and Political Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Alabama.