Andrei A. Kokoshin

Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Sciences (History), Professor, Academic Secretary of the Department of Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences Dean of the Faculty of World Politics of Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU).

Graduated from Bauman Moscow State Technical University.

Worked as scientific secretary, then head of section, then Deputy Director of the Institute of USA and Canadian Studies, USSR Academy of Sciences. State Secretary, then First Deputy Defense Minister of the Russian Federation (RF). State Military Inspector, then Secretary of the RF Defense Council. Secretary of the RF Security Council.

Was elected member of the State Duma (third, fourth and fifth convocations). Chairman of the State Duma Committee on the CIS and Relations with Expatriates, and First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Science and High Technology.

Author of over 180 academic papers and books on strategic stability, the modern system of international relations, and military and political strategy.

Recipient of state awards.