Bettina Renz
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Bettina Renz | |
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| Academic background | |
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| Thesis | Civil-military Relations in Post-Soviet Russia: The Case of ‘Military Politicians’ (2005) |
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| Institutions | University of Nottingham |
Bettina Renz is a German political scientist and Professor of International Security at the School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham.[1][2][3] Her major research expertise is post-Soviet Russian security and defence policy, military reform and civil-military relations.[4][5] Since 2005, Renz has published numerous articles in academic journals describing the background and effects of changes in contemporary Russia's military.[6] She is an editorial board member of the United States Army War College Press.[7]
After receiving her MA and MSc in Russian Studies at the University of Edinburgh, Renz went to Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham in 1999 for PhD, which dealt with Russian civil-military relations.[8][9] She completed her PhD in 2005. In 2006, she was an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Birmingham's European Research Institute.[4]
