Robert David English (born 1958) is an American academic, author, historian, and international relations scholar who specializes in the history and politics of contemporary Eastern Europe, the USSR, and Russia.
[1] As part of his doctorate, English completed a Ph.D. dissertation titled "Russia views the West: the intellectual and political origins of Soviet new thinking.
"[1] He wrote parts of Rebirth: A Political History of Europe Since World War II with Cyril E. Black, Jonathan E. Helmreich, and A. James McAdams in 1999.
He is working on a "book-length study," to be called Our Serbian Brethren: History, Myth, and the Politics of Russian National Identity.
[1] In 1996, English won the Harold D. Lasswell Prize from the American Political Science Association (APSA) for the work that he later used in writing Russia and the Idea of the West: Gorbachev, Intellectuals, and the End of the Cold War.