Dr. Anna Batta is an Associate Professor and the current Benjamin Foulois

Research Chair in the Department of National Security Studies at Air War

College. She has been with the school for the past 10 years. Her teaching

interests include Russian foreign policy and domestic affairs. She has

published in academic journals, such as Communist and Post-Communist

Studies, Ethnopolitics, Civil Wars, and others. Her book, The Russian

Minorities in the former Soviet Republics: Secession, Integration, and

Homeland, was published with Routledge in 2022. Dr Batta holds a PhD in

Political Science in Conflict Studies from the University of North Texas. She

grew up in Hungary during the Cold War and attended the National

University of Public Service in Budapest.