Dr Julie Newton

Dr Julie Newton is a Research Fellow at the Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, where she specialises in Russian foreign policy and Russia–US–EU relations. She is also Principal Investigator of the University Consortium (UC), a ten-year, interregional initiative based at St Antony’s and generously funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York (CCNY).

The UC brings together leading universities—Oxford, Harvard, Columbia, Sciences Po, and Freie Universität Berlin (with MGIMO and the Higher School of Economics as full partners until Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022)—to promote informed dialogue, mutual understanding, and constructive engagement among Americans, Europeans, Ukrainians, and exiled Russians amid the deepening confrontation between Russia and the West. Through intensive week-long modules, seminars and lectures, as well as annual conferences and alumni workshops, the UC convenes graduate students, scholars, former officials, and practitioners from the United States, the UK/EU, Ukraine, and Russia to deepen understanding of Russia’s war on Ukraine and to develop creative scholarly and policy responses aimed at managing and eventually mitigating the serious deterioration in relations between Russia, the United States, and Europe.

Dr Newton served as Associate Professor at the American University of Paris (2005–2024) and is a Visiting Professor of Russian foreign policy at Colorado College (US). Until February 2022 she also taught annually in Moscow on the MGIMO–Moscow State University (MSU) International Master’s Programme in Post-Soviet Politics.

Her publications include peer-reviewed journal articles (with additional articles not listed here) and two books—Russia, France, and the Idea of Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) and, with William Tompson, Institutions, Ideas, and Leadership in Russian Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)—as well as recent pieces such as “Roundtable Review of Vladislav Zubok, Collapse: The Fall of the USSR,” H-Diplo | RJISSF (11 September 2023), https://issforum.org/to/jrt15-2; “Roundtable on Sergey Radchenko, To Run the World: The Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for Global Power,” H-Diplo | RJISSF (23 June 2025), https://issforum.org/ISSF/PDF/RJISSF-Roundtable-16-44.pdf; and forthcoming works including “Russia’s Alternative Voices of the Early 1990s: Missed Opportunities for a New Multilateral Security Order in Europe and Eurasia”, in The Euro-Russian Entente: Brussels and Moscow between Convergence and Divergence, 1985–1994, ed. Elena Dundovich and Simone Paoli (Routledge, forthcoming 2026), and Robert English and Julie Newton, “Russian Foreign Policy Intellectuals After Putin: Legacies and Futures,” in “Russia After Putin”, special issue of Problems of Post-Communism, ed. Elise Giuliano and Kimberly Marten (Harriman Institute, Columbia University, forthcoming 2026).

She holds a DPhil from Oxford (1994), an MA from Columbia University’s School for International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and the Harriman Institute (1985), and a BA from Princeton University (1983).