Dr. Cory Welt
Visiting Faculty
Email: cdw33@georgetown.edu

Areas of Interest: Regional security Issues in Russia and Eurasia, conflict and security in the South Caucasus, and politics and state Building in Eurasia.

Cory Welt is Associate Director and Professorial Lecturer at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. At IERES, he co-directs the Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia (PONARS Eurasia) and teaches courses on post-Soviet Eurasian politics and security.

He has written several articles on conflict resolution, transborder security, and political change, including for Europe-Asia Studies, Demokratizatsiya, and The Nonproliferation Review, and contributed book chapters to The Birth of Modern Georgia (Jones, forthcoming), Democracy and Authoritarianism in the Postcommunist World (Bunce, McFaul, Stoner-Weiss, eds., Cambridge University Press) and America and the World in the Age of Terror (Benjamin, ed., CSIS Press). Dr. Welt was previously associate director (2007-2009) and director (2009) of the Eurasian Strategy Project at Georgetown University and deputy director and fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) (2003-2007).

He received his Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2004) and his B.A. and M.A. from Stanford University (1995).