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Full Name Dmitri Vital'evich TreninDmitrii Vital'evich Trenin Education BA, USSR Military InstitutePhD, USSR Academy of Sciences Occupation Think tank directorHistorianPolitical punditAuthor Books Post imperium, The end of Eurasia, Getting Russia Right, Russia's Restless Frontier, Central Asia: Views from Was Similar People Anatol Lieven, James Goodby, Peter Van Ham | ||
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Dr. Dmitri Vitalyevich Trenin, PhD (Russian: Дмитрий Витальевич Тренин, born 1955) is the director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, a think tank and regional affiliate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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- Early life and education
- Military and early career
- Carnegie Moscow Center
- Political analyst and commentator
- Publications
- Authored and co authored
- Edited
- References
Trenin is a historian, political analyst, and author. Before joining Carnegie in 1994, he served for 21 years in the Soviet Army and Russian Ground Forces, retiring in 1993 at the rank of colonel.
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Early life and education
Trenin was born in Moscow in 1955. He is married and has two children.
In 1977, Trenin graduated from the Military Institute of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR (Военный институт Министерства обороны СССР, or ВКИМО СССР), which today exists as the Military University of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (Военный университет Министерства обороны Российской Федерации, or ВУ МО).
In 1984, Trenin received a PhD in History from the Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies (Институт США и Канады РАН) of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (Академия наук СССР), now the Russian Academy of Sciences
Trenin speaks Russian, English and German.
Military and early career
Trenin served in the Soviet and Russian armed forces from 1972 to 1993. His service included postings both inside and outside of the Soviet Union, to include a stint as the first non-NATO senior research fellow at the NATO Defense College in Rome. He retired from the Russian Army in 1993 at the rank of colonel.
Upon retirement from the military, Trenin was a visiting professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Brussels, Belgium, from 1993-1994. From 1993-1997, Trenin was also a senior research fellow at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, Russia.
Carnegie Moscow Center
Trenin is one of Carnegie Moscow Center's founding members, and has been with the organization since its inception in 1993.
On December 22, 2008, Trenin became the first Russian director of the Carnegie Moscow Center. Trenin also chairs Carnegie Moscow's research council and the Foreign and Security Policy Program.
Since its foundation, Carnegie Moscow Center has been ranked as the leading think tank in Russia in reports by the University of Pennsylvania's Think Tanks and Civil Society Program, the "Global Go To Think Tank Report". Carnegie Moscow is also in the top-30 think tanks worldwide.
Trenin is also a Senior Fellow of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC.
Political analyst and commentator
Trenin is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (London, United Kingdom), the Russian International Affairs Council (Moscow), the Russian International Studies Association (Moscow) and the Royal Swedish Academy of Military Science. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Moscow School of Political Studies.
He serves on the editorial boards of several peer-reviewed, academic journals, to include The Washington Quarterly, International Politics, Insight Turkey, and Baltic Course.
Trenin is a frequent contributor to many of the world's major news media outlets, to include the BBC, CNN, The Economist, The Financial Times, The Guardian, The New York Times, the Global Times and others.
Publications
Trenin has authored, co-authored, or edited numerous books on the topics of Russia, Eurasia, Russia-United States relations, Russia-European Union relations, Russia-China relations, and politics and international relations in the Commonwealth of Independent States. He has published in Russian, English, German, Japanese and Chinese.