Julian G. Waller

Julian G. Waller is a part-time faculty member in the Department of Political Science and currently teaches Dictators in Europe & Russia (and previously, Russian Politics). He is also a Research Analyst in the Russia Studies Program at the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA Corporation), a federally-funded research and development center. He holds an affiliation with the Elliott School of International Affairs' Illiberalism Studies Program.

Professor Waller is an academic researcher and applied political analyst of comparative authoritarian politics, elite strategic decision-making, political-military affairs in Eurasia, and ideological illiberalism in Europe, Eurasia, and North America. He is coauthor of the book Autocrats Can't Always Get What They Want: State Institutions and Autonomy under Authoritarianism (University of Michigan Press, 2024). He has published widely, including peer-reviewed articles in Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Problems of Post-Communism, the Journal of Advanced Military Studies, Political Studies Review, the Journal of International Affairs, the Journal of Illiberalism Studies, and the International Journal of Constitutional Law as well as essays in Foreign Affairs, American Affairs, War on the Rocks, and The National Interest. He is a contributing author to a number of public reports published for sponsoring entities in the Department of Defense. He received his Ph.D in Political Science from George Washington University in 2022.