Mosbacher Director, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law; Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies; Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution (by courtesy), Stanford University

Mosbacher Director, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies; Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow Hoover Institution (by courtesy), Stanford University.

Kathryn Stoner is a scholar of contemporary Russia. She has authored and co-edited the following books, among others:Autocracy and Democracy in the Post-Communist World; Resisting the State: Reform and Retrenchment in Post-Soviet Russia;After the Collapse of Communism: Comparative Lessons of Transitions; and Local Heroes: The Political Economy of Russian Regional Governance. Her most recent book is Russia Resurrected: Its Power and Purpose in a New Global Order.