A nation must think before it acts.
David Szakonyi is an assistant professor of political science at George Washington University, a research fellow at the International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow and, for the 2017-2018 academic year, an academy scholar at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. His research focuses on business-government relations and corruption in post-Communist countries, with work published or forthcoming in the American Political Science Review, World Politics, and Journal of Politics.