Valery Dzutsati | SIU

Political Science

Valery Dzutsati holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Arizona State University, a Master’s in Public Policy from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a BA in History from North Ossetian State University, Vladikavkaz, Russia. His research interests include interstate and civil conflict, democratization, politics and religion, state-making processes, and collective action with an empirical focus on post-Soviet countries. At SIU, Valery teaches undergraduate and graduate-level International Relations and International Law courses.

Valery Dzutsati is an Assistant Professor of Practice in the School of Anthropology, Political Science, and Sociology at Southern Illinois University. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Arizona State University, a Master’s degree in Public Policy from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a BA in History from North Ossetian State University, Vladikavkaz, Russia. His research interests include interstate and civil conflict, democratization, politics and religion, state-making processes, and collective action with an empirical focus on Eastern/Central Europe and Northern Eurasian countries. At SIU, Valery teaches undergraduate and graduate-level International Relations and International Law courses. His articles appear in Conflict Management and Peace Science, Nationalities Papers, Nations and Nationalism, Perspectives on Politics, Politics and Religion, Post-Soviet Affairs, Religion, State and Society, and Social Science Quarterly. The co-authored book Defection Denied: A Study of Civilian Support for Insurgency in Irregular War came out at Cambridge University Press in 2022. See https://dzutsati.com/ for more information.