Sharlet studies Russian politics

Robert Sharlet, Chauncey Winters Professor of Political Science, has recently published "Putin and the Politics of Law in Russia" as the lead article in Post-Soviet Affairs (Vol. 17, No. 3, 2001) as well as "Russian Constitutional Change: Proposed Power-Sharing Models," a chapter in International and National Law in Russia and Eastern Europe ed. Roger Clark et. al. (Kluwer Law International 2001). During the spring, he also presented a paper, "Russia in the Middle: State-Building and the Rule of Law," at a conference titled "A Decade of Post-Communism" sponsored by the Fulbright Institute of International Affairs at the University of Arkansas.