Kevin DeWitt Jones, Ph.D.
Biography
Kevin D. Jones, Ph.D. is a regional expert on political, economic, and civil conflict issues in Central Asia and Eurasia. Dr. Jones has spent more than ten years working and studying in the region and has conducted extensive field research on border and ethnic conflict throughout Central Asia and the Caucuses. He is currently an Alfa Fellow in Moscow researching the intersection of U.S., Russian and Chinese political and economic interests in Eurasia and a Non-resident Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Most recently he was a Graduate Research Fellow at the Center for International Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM) where he completed his dissertation entitled “The Dynamics of Political Protests: A Case Study of the Kyrgyz Republic”. Prior to graduate work, Dr. Jones worked as the Private Sector Advisor for USAID/Central Asia Region.
Publications
“The Intersection of Interests: The U.S. and Russia in Central Asia”, Brookings Institution Foreign Policy Paper, forthcoming August 2007.
“Fear of Democracy or Revolution: the Reaction to Andijon", (with Fiona Hill) Washington Quarterly, Summer 2006.
Central Asia Human Development Report, (chapter author) United Nations Development Program, September 2005.
“Land Privatization and Conflict: A Success Story in Kyrgyzstan?” in In the Tracks of Tamerlane, ed. Daniel L. Burghart and Theresa Sabonis-Helf. (Washington: National Defense University Press, 2004).
“The Bridge Over the River Kara Soo: An Analysis of the Micro Motivations of Civil Conflict”, conference paper, International Studies Association annual conference, Montreal, 2004.
Conflict Management and Peacemaking. (with Alison Milofsky) Teaching guide manual. (Washington: United States Institute of Peace, 2003).
External Links
Papa Carlo: A blog on Living in Russia