Spector, Regine – TRANS

Spector, Regine: Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Her main subfields are comparative politics, political economy, and international relations. She is currently working on her dissertation on the formation of markets and trade in the post-Soviet region. Other ongoing projects include a co-authored comparative historical paper on international labor migration and remittances. She formerly worked in Washington, D.C. as a research assistant in the Foreign Policy Studies Program of the Brookings Institution, and received her BA and MA in International Relations and International Policy Studies from Stanford University. Publications: “The Caspian Basin and Asian Energy Markets,” co-authored with Fiona Hill, Brookings Institution Conference Report, September 2001, No. 8. “Central Asia: More than Islamic Extremists,” co-authored with Svante Cornell, The Washington Quarterly, Vol. 25, No. 1, Winter 2002. “Surveying the Silk Road: A Review of Recent Political Science Contributions,” Newsletter of the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, Vol. 20, No. 3, Fall 2003. “The Transformation of Askar Akaev, President of Kyrgyzstan,” Berkeley Program in Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies Working Paper Series, Spring 2004.

Email: rspector@berkeley.edu