Robert Legvold (born February 26, 1940) is an American political scientist, specializing in the international relations of the post-Soviet states.
He is the Marshall D. Shulman Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University.
From 1986 to 1992 Legvold was Director of Columbia's Harriman Institute for Advanced Study of the Soviet Union.
For six years, Legvold served as Senior Fellow and Director of the Soviet Studies Project at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
[2] From 2009–2012, Legvold was director of the “Euro-Atlantic Security Initiative” sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and co-chaired by Sam Nunn, Wolfgang Ischinger, and Igor Ivanov.