University Courses Taught

International Relations

• Introduction to International Relations  /  Theories of International Relations
  • Three graduate courses, all in French; and
  • One undergraduate course, in French.
• Seminar in International Relations  /  Readings in International Relations
  • Five undergraduate courses, all in French, variously on:
    • International Political Economy,
    • Transnational Public Policy, and
    • International Organization.
• Foreign Policies of the Newly Independent States  /  Soviet Foreign Policy
  • Four graduate courses, of which one in French; and
  • Nine undergraduate courses, of which six in French.
• Dimensions of European Security
  • One graduate course.

Comparative Politics

• Introduction to Comparative Politics  /  Pro-Seminar in Comparative Politics
  • Two graduate courses and
  • One undergraduate course.
• Politics of the Newly Independent States  /  Soviet Political System
  • Three graduate courses, of which one in French; and
  • Ten undergraduate courses, of which six in French.
• Comparative Communist Systems and Transitions
  • Two undergraduate courses.

Political Philosophy

• History of European Socialism
  • One undergraduate course.
• Seminar in Political Philosophy
  • One undergraduate course.

Other Teaching Experience

Supervision of Student Research

• Carleton University
  • Examiner, M.A. Essay Defence Jury, Institute of European and Russian Studies
    • Emil Torosyan, “Energy Factor in Russian Foreign Policy Making, 2000–2005,” Autumn 2005.
  • Examiner, M.A. Essay Defence Jury, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs
    • Helgi Maki, “The Legal Status of the Caspian Sea,” Autumn 2000.
• Russian Academy of Sciences
  • Evaluator, Doctor of Sciences Defence Jury, Institute of Philosophy
    • P.V. Glazkov, “Filosofiia svobody M.A. Bakunina,” Spring 2005.
• Université Laval
  • Directeur de recherche, Mémoire pour M.A., Département de Science politique
    • Eric-Jan Zubrzycki, “La genèse de Solidarité: Tensions et déchirements au sein du KOR, 1976–1981,” 1990–1991.
    • Yves Goulet, “L’adaptation politique: Une ’tude de cas de la politique étrangère soviétique dans le Golfe persique durant la Guerre Iran-Irak, 1980–1988,” 1990–1991.
    • Martin Bourgeois, “La crise afghane: Une analyse de la transformation du comportement ‘adaptif’ de l’État soviétique à partir de son invasion jusqu'au retrait de ses forces militaries du territoire de l'Afghanistan,” 1988–1989 (Essai de recherche pour M.A.).
  • Membre de Jury, Mémoire pour M.A., Département de Science politique
    • Robert Duguay, “L’analyse de l’OACI en tant qu'organisation internationale,” Winter 1991.
    • Marie-Laurence Poirel, “À propos de la postérité arendtienne dans l'appréhension du phénomène soviétique: Réflexion préliminaire sur le concept d'Homo Sovieticus,” Autumn 1989.
• University of California at Santa Barbara
  • Thesis advisor, Senior Honor's Thesis, Department of Political Science
    • Colin Stevens, “The Kádár Era: Reform and Legitimacy in Hungary, 1956–1988,” 1987–1988.
    • James T. Alexander, “The Formation of the 1977 Soviet Constitution,” 1985–1986.

Still Further Teaching Experience

• Graduate student teaching assistant at University of Michigan (1977–1979, 1980–1981) and Pennsylvania State University (1974–1976).
• Secondary school instructor in Pennsylvania (Autumn 1974) and Massachusetts (Spring 1974).
• Tutor in community program while undergraduate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1972–1973).

Dr. Robert M. Cutler [ website — email ] was educated at MIT and The University of Michigan, where he earned a Ph.D. in Political Science, and has specialized and consulted in the international affairs of Europe, Russia, and Eurasia since the late 1970s. He has held research and teaching positions at major universities in the United States, Canada, France, Switzerland, and Russia, and contributed to leading policy reviews and academic journals as well as the print and electronic mass media in three languages.

 
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