NINA BELYAEVA
WORK EXPERIENCE
2016 University of Turin, Visiting professor
2016 Science Po (Grenoble), Visiting professor
2014 UNIBO, Visiting professor
2009-now University of Sarajevo (ERMA), Visiting professor
2000 – now Professor, Department Head: National Research University “Higher School of Economics” / Faculty of Social Sciences / Public Policy Department. Moscow
2006 - now Academic Director of HSE MP in Public Policy & Policy Analysis of National Research University “Higher School of Economics”. Moscow
2005 Cape Town University, Visiting professor
1998 Colorado College, Visiting professor
1994, 1995 Moscow State University Law School, Visiting professor
1994-1995 Colorado College, Visiting professor
1993 Georgetown University, Visiting professor
1993 Salzburg University Law School, Visiting professor
1992 Johns Hopkins University, Visiting professor
1990, 1992, Colorado College, Visiting professor
1991 - now International Public Foundation for Political and Legal Research, President EDUCATION AND TRAINING
2009 - 2011 EU Scholarship for visiting fellows to University of Bologna
1993 Senior research fellow in residence in USIP. Washington DC
1992 Senior research fellow in residence in CSIS. Washington DC
1991 International Fellowship in Philanthropy Institute for Policy Studies John's Hopkins University. Baltimore
1987 UNESCO scholarship to University of London School of Law. London
1983 - 1986 Doctoral courses in Constitutional Law and Comparative Politics. Institute of State and Law Academy of
Sciences of the USSR. S.J.D., Doctoral Dissertation Defended. Doctoral Thesis: ‘Political Activity of voluntary
organizations in the USSR and enabling legal regime for it’ Moscow
1976 – 1981 Moscow State University, Law School (Theory and History of State and Law, Political System, Constitutional
Law, Comparative Legal Systems, International Public Law), Moscow. J.D & LL.M. Moscow
PERSONAL SKILLS
Mother tongue(s) Russian
Other language(s) English
UNDERSTANDING SPEAKING WRITING
Spoken Spoken Listening Reading interaction production
C2 C2 C2 C2 C1
Communication skills
Excellent communication and inter-personal skills, gained through professional training by Conflict Management NGO "Partners for Democratic Change" USA. Very good skills of adaptation to new academic collective and learning environment, because of teaching in many different countries and cultures - Italy, USA, South African Republic, Bosnia and Herzegovina Considerable experience in communication and advocacy skills to NGOs in different countries - Russian Federation, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, as well as in Chile, Iran, Nepal.
Organisational / managerial skill
Leadership in public campaigns organization, gained through creation a Nation-wide NGO Coalition in Russian Federation " We,
the Citizens!", for monitoring elections and promoting democratic citizenship education, serving as President of this
Coalition of about 100 NGOs. Good team-building skills, through organizing research collectives of teachers and students
Good management skills, as an organizer of extra-curriculum theme-focused learning camps - Summer Schools 'Baltic Practice', sponsored by HSE, CoE and students themselves, opened every
year in a different European country, starting from 2001 ((for 15 years) Job-related skills
Legislation drafting activities - from1990 in Russian Federation: responsible for State Duma Expert Working Group of National Law» On Voluntary Associations ", adopted 1995, also participated in drafting National Laws on Political Parties, Law " On Trade Unions" and National Law "On Rallies and Demonstrations" Organizing and leading temporary research groups of HSE students and faculty members on the themes, related to Public Policy, NGOs activity and Human Rights practices Organizing and leading Training of Trainers seminars in the field of democratic citizenship, participation, advocacy and legislative initiatives in RF - from 1990 till 2007 Organizing research collectives for publication pf several collective monographs, including "Public Policy in Contemporary Russia: Actors and Institutions", “Russian Constitutional Development: Strategies for the New Institutional Design”, “Analytical Communities in Public Policy: Global Phenomenon and the Russian Practices”
Other skills Creating new study courses, based on current learning demands, like the courses “Human Rights in Globalizing World”, “Conflict Analysis and Management”, “Global Actors in Public Policy” or “RF Internal and Foreign Policy and alternatives by Human Rights organizations”
Teaching on-line by Skype connection to RF and Foreign students
Organizing student exchanges and staff academic mobility – between HSE and many European Universities – UniBo, UniTo, Torino University College, Science Po Lyon, Universita Zwisseria Italiana, realizing Double Degree Master Program with University of Bologna ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Publications Nina Belyaeva, Brad Roberts, Walter Laqueur (Foreword by). 1991. After perestroika: democracy in the Soviet Union. Center for Strategic and International Studies (Washington, D.C.). Significant issues series
Nina Belyaeva. 1993. Russian democracy: crisis as progress. Washington quarterly, 16(2) Spring
Nina Belyaeva (ed.). 1994. Russian and American think tanks: an initial survey. Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies. Washington, D.C.
Nina Belyaeva (ed.). 2006. Public Policy in Contemporary Russia: Actors and Institutions. Moscow: HSE
Belyaeva Nina. 2006.. Legal Regulation in civil society – from Soviet Decrees of 1930-es to RF legislation amendment in 2006 - goals, methods, results. Analytical Seminar - together with HSE Public Policy Department – Legal Foundations of Civil Society Activity in USSR and RF legislation: changing legislative goals, forms and results 29-30 March, 2006. Moscow // International Foundation for Political and Legal Research “Interlegal”. Analytical seminars: Public Policy and Rule of Law in contemporary Russian Federation: actors and institutions.
Nina Belyaeva (ed.). 2007. Russian Constitutional Development: Strategies for The New Institutional Design. Moscow: HSE
Anastasia Novokreshchenova, Maria Shabanova, Dmitry Zaytsev and Nina Belyaeva. 2010. Linguistic processing in lattice-based taxonomy construction // CLA 2010: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Concept Lattices and Their Applications, University of Sevilla, (Sevilla, Spain, 2010).
Nina Belyaeva. 2011. Development of the Concept of a Public Policy: Attention to "Motive Forces" and Operating Actors. Polis. Т. 123. № 3. (p. 72-87)
Nina Belyaeva. Liliana Proskuryakova. 2008. Civil Society Diamond. CIVICUS Civil Society Index – Shortened Assessment Tool. Report for the Russian Federation. Moscow: Interlegal.
Nina Belyaeva, Giliberto Capano. 2011. Governing Modern Research University: Between Academic Freedom and Managerial Constrains. In Russia and the Council of Europe: Topics for Common Agenda. A Look from Norway. Academic Papers of 10th International Session of the HSE Russian - European Centre for Multidisciplinary Research, Oslo, 1-8 August. Moscow: INTELCORP. N.Y. Belyaeva. Analysts: 2011. “Consultants” or “Independent Policy Actors”. Politicka Misao, Т. 48. № 5
Nina Belyaeva (ed.). 2012. Analytical Communities in Public Policy: Global Phenomenon and the Russian Practices. Moscow: ROSSPEN.
Nina Belyaeva, Nikita Zagladin. 2012. Global Civil Identity: From Ethical Imperatives to Global Institutes/ Political Identity and Policy of Identity. Moscow: ROSSPEN
Nina Belyaeva. 2012. Double National-Political Identity / Political Identity and Policy of Identity. Moscow: ROSSPEN.
Nina Belyaeva. 2012. Сivil associations in Public Policy: Forms of Participation in Contemporary Russia. Moscow: HSE.
Belyaeva Nina (ed). 2015. Policy Impact of Civil Society in BRICS countries: Best Practices Influencing Policy- Making. In Academic Papers of the Interactive International Conference “Policy Impact of Civil Society in BRICS countries: Best Practices Influencing Policy-Making”, Moscow, May 19
Nina Belyaeva, Sanjay Rajhans. 2015. Increasing mobilization capacity of Indian civil society: historic Legacies new Social Actors, and the Role of Media. In Policy Impact of Civil Society in BRICS countries: Best Practices Influencing Policy-Making. Academic Papers of the Interactive International Conference “Policy Impact of Civil Society in BRICS countries: Best Practices Influencing Policy-Making”, Moscow, May 19
Conferences
2016 ECPR, joint Sessions of Workshops (Pisa). Belyaeva Nina (acad. paper). Interplay Between Formal and Informal Mechanisms in Implementing Human Rights Treaties: The Case of OSCE
2015 Guidelines on Freedom of Peaceful Assembly / Workshop The Informalization of Global Governance
2015 ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, Warsaw, Research Committee on Citizenship and Citizenship
Education, paper presented “Formal and Informal Citizenship Education at University level – advantages and disadvantages”
2015 ECPR General Conference, Montreal, Canada, Research Committee on Citizenship Education, paper presented “Open Learning Spaces Model as a tool of Citizenship Education “
2015 2015 Second International Conference on Public Policy, ICPP, Milano, Chair of the Panel on Protest Publics as Actors of Policy Change, paper presented “Educated Middle class as
2013 1st International Conference on Public Policy (Grenoble), paper presented: Global Order" and Global Governance : changing role of nation state in multy-level regulatory regimes 2013 XIV April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development (Moscow). Presented Academic papers: "Public» as a «social actor» vs «public» as a «target audience". Conceptual connection between "the public", "civil society" and "community" 2013 7-th ECPR General Conference Science Po Bordeaux, 4-7 September 2013 (Bordeaux), Presented Academic papers: University Networks as New Global Actors: New Tools of Ideas and Knowledge Accumulation and Diffusion 2013 International Conference “The Post Lisbon EU: An External Perspective” (Bologna), Presented Academic papers: The EU viewed from Russia 2011 IPSA-ECPR Joint Conference "Whatever Happened to North- South?" (Sao Paulo). Presented Academic papers: Public Policy Analyses as Nonlinear Tool for Assessing Probability of Democratic Development 2011 Developing policy in different cultural contexts: learning from study, learning from experience Dubrovnik), Presented Academic papers: The Analysts: ’Consultants’ or ‘Independent Actors’? 2011 XII April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development (Moscow). Presented Academic papers Participation of civil organizations in public policy 2010 Forum on the Universality of Human Rights (Oslo). Presented Academic papers: Hierarchy and oppositions between Rights // Forum on the Universality of Human Rights. Oslo. 21-22. October 2010. 2009 21st IPSA World Congress of Political Science (Santiago de Chile). Presented Academic papers: Modern populism with the use of media: comparing methods of Putin and Berlusconi Honours and awards 2012 Medal of the Russian Federation Ministry of Education and Science "For the development of research work of students" Memberships Member of the HSE Academic Council (2000 – now);
Deputy Chairman of the HSE International Committee (2012 – now);
Member of Editorial Advisory Board Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice (2013 – now); International Political Science Association (1995 - now); European Consortium for Political Research (2008 – now); Board of Directors of University Consortium for implementation International Master Program in Human Rights and Democratic Governance (2009 – now);
Expert Panel Member of OSCE/ODIHR “On the Freedom of Peaceful Assembly”, 2006 – now;
International Public Foundation for Political and Legal Research (1991 – now);
Russian Association of Political Science (1985 – now) Courses Contemporary Political Science Philosophy and Theory of Human Rights in Globalizing World
Global Actors in Public Policy Conflict Management and Mediation Intellectual History of Europe