Pavel Kimovich Baev (Russian: Павел Кимович Баев; born 22 May 1957) is a Russian-Norwegian political scientist and security scholar.
in economic and political geography, 1979) and worked in a research institute in the USSR Ministry of Defence.
From 1995–2001, Baev was co-editor of the academic journal Security Dialogue, and from 1999-2005 he was a member of the PRIO board.
He is a member of the PONARS Eurasia program, currently located at the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at the Elliot School of International Affairs, George Washington University.
Baev is the author of several books and academic articles and he is a regular columnist in the Eurasia Daily Monitor published by the Jamestown Foundation.