Gennady Rudkevich is an independent scholar specialising in military conflict, Russian foreign policy and the politics of Central Asia. His most recent work examines Russia's anti-corruption protest movements. He has published in Social Science Quarterly and Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy on those subjects and has been interviewed or quoted by BBC World News, Radio Television Suisse, the South China Morning Post, and the Moscow Times. He has previously taught political science at the University of Illinois and at Georgia College.