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Sarah Mendelson became the director of the Human Rights and Security Initiative at CSIS in January 2007. She is also a senior fellow with the Russia and Eurasia Program. Before joining CSIS in 2001, Mendelson taught international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. From 1997 to 2000, she directed a collaborative study, funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, evaluating the impact of Western democracy assistance to Eastern Europe and Eurasia. From 1995 to 1998, she was an assistant professor at the State University of New York at Albany, and from 1997 to 1998, she was a resident associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. In 1994 and 1995, she served on the staff of the National Democratic Institute’s Moscow office, where she worked with Russian political activists. She has been a fellow at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation and Princeton University’s Center of International Studies. Mendelson serves on the advisory committee of Human Rights Watch and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the editorial board of International Security. She has testified before Congress and appeared numerous times on NPR, the BBC, and CNN. She has been published in the Washington Post, the Globe and Mail (Canada), Foreign Affairs, and Survival, in addition to numerous scholarly journals. She is the author of Barracks and Brothels: Peacekeepers and Human Trafficking in the Balkans (CSIS, 2005), coeditor of The Power and Limits of NGOs: Transnational Networks and Post-Communist Societies (Columbia, 2002), and author of Changing Course: Ideas, Politics and the Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan (Princeton, 1998). Mendelson received her B.A. in history from Yale University in 1984 and her Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University in 1993. She also earned a certificate from the Harriman Institute.
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