Arik Burakovsky

Arik Burakovsky is Assistant Director of the Russia and Eurasia Program at The Fletcher School, which he helped establish in 2018. His research interests include Russian foreign policy and political economy, soft power, public diplomacy, and international relations forecasting. Before completing his M.A. in Law and Diplomacy at The Fletcher School, Arik interned in the Public Affairs Section at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. He studied the Polish language and culture as a Boren Fellow at the University of Warsaw in Poland. He also served as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Omsk, Russia, and twice as Resident Director of the ROTC Project GO intensive summer Russian language program in Narva, Estonia. His work has been published by The Conversation, TIME, The National Interest, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and elsewhere. Arik received his B.A. in Political Science and International Relations from the University of California, San Diego.