
Yelena Biberman is Associate Professor of Political Science at Skidmore College, Fellow of the Andrew W. Marshall Foundation, and Affiliate of Harvard University’s Davis Center. Her research focuses on international security, irregular warfare, and emerging technologies. She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Political Science from Brown University, an M.A. in Regional Studies from Harvard University, and a B.A. from Wellesley College. A former Fellow at West Point’s Modern War Institute and the Atlantic Council’s South Asia Center, she is a recipient of Fulbright and Woodrow Wilson International Center’s Kissinger Institute on China and the United States Wilson China Fellowships. Her work has been published in leading academic and policy outlets.

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Selected Writing

Deterrence in the Age of Weaponizable Biotechnology
Georgetown Journal of International Affairs

Technologies and International Politics of Genetic Warfare
Strategic Studies Quarterly

Gambling with Violence: State Outsourcing of War in Pakistan and India
Oxford University Press
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How to Kill a Superpower: Lessons from the USSR
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The Grocery Store That Killed Communism
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