Molly O'Neal: Hard Choices for Europe & Russia - Sanctions Blowback, Political Polarization & the Demands of Strategic Autonomy
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213 Hebert Hall
Dr. Molly O’Neal is a former Foreign Service Officer in the U.S. State Department
whose career, from 1989 onward, was devoted to the relations of the U.S. with Central
and Eastern Europe, Russia and Eurasia. She served in senior positions in the U.S.
embassies in Tbilisi, Baku, Tashkent and Moscow, in the Policy Planning staff at the
State Department under Secretary James Baker, and as a political advisor at the London
headquarters of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
She completed her PhD at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
(SAIS) in 2012, specializing in Russian and Eurasian Studies, as well as international
political economy, comparative politics and American foreign policy. She has taught at
American University, Baylor University and UT Austin. She was a Fulbright Research
Scholar and lecturer at Collegium Civitas in Warsaw and was a Fulbright professor at the
Center for International Studies at the Technical University of Dresden in 2022. She has
been a visiting researcher in the European department of the Stiftung Wissenschaft und
Politik in Berlin. Her research focuses on European politics, the European Union and US
policy toward Europe and Eurasia.
She is the author of a book, published by Routledge in 2016, Democracy, Civic Culture
and Small Business in Russia’s Regions: Social Processes in Comparative Historical
Perspective. She has also authored academic conference papers and published numerous
articles in peer-reviewed journals.
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