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College of Arts & Sciences
Robert Barylski is an expert on civil-military relations in Russia, political and economic reconstruction in the former Soviet Union, and Russian policy towards states and peoples of Islamic heritage. His work is published in journals such as Europe-Asia Studies, The Middle East Journal, The Central Asia Monitor, and The Armed Forces & Society. He is the author of The Soldier in Russian Politics: Duty, Dictatorship, and Democracy under Gorbachev and Yeltsin, a major work on the subject, and of chapters in various edited works on post-Soviet domestic and foreign policy. Dr. Barylski joined USF in February 1979 and served as USF's Sarasota Campus Dean for ten years, a decade during which the new campus library, Sudakoff center, and other facilities were built. Since 1980 he has been Associate Professor in USF's Department of Government and International Relations. He has lectured in Baku, Madrid, Moscow, Paris, Ufa, Israel, and the Persian Gulf on military aspects of political change and competition for wealth and power in new, oil-producing states. He made occasional expert contributions to the Voice of America for broadcast to the greater Caspian region and participated in US policy symposia at the US Central Command. Dr. Barylski earned his undergraduate degree form Brown University in political science in 1965 and his graduate degrees in Russian area studies and political science at Harvard University in 1972. He is married and the father two grown children, Alexander and Natasha. His wife, Irene, teaches foreign languages at the Pine View School in the Sarasota school system.
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