Anna Borshchevskaya is the Harold Grinspoon Senior Fellow in The Washington Institute's Diane and Guilford Glazer Foundation Program on Great Power Competition and the Middle East, focusing on Russia's policy toward the Middle East. In addition, she is a contributor to Oxford Analytica and a contributing editor to the military, defense, national security, and politics website 19FortyFive.com. In June 2024 she served as a consultant for the U.S. Department of State on defense strategies in the Black Sea region. She was previously with the Atlantic Council and the Peterson Institute for International Economics. A former analyst for a U.S. military contractor in Afghanistan, she has also served as communications director at the American Islamic Congress and was a fellow at the European Foundation for Democracy.
Her analysis is published widely in publications such as Foreign Affairs, The Hill, The New Criterion, and Middle East Quarterly, as well as peer-reviewed journals. She is the author of the 2021 book, Putin's War in Syria: Russian Foreign Policy and the Price of America's Absence (I.B. Tauris, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing), which Financial Times cited as one of the top twelve books on Syria. Until recently, she conducted translation and analysis for the U.S. Army's Foreign Military Studies Office and its flagship publication, Operational Environment Watch, and wrote a foreign affairs column for Forbes. She is the author of the February 2016 Institute monograph, Russia in the Middle East. She holds a doctorate from George Mason University.
Education
PhD, George Mason University; MA, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS); BA, State University of New York at Geneseo.
