Pavel Baev

Pavel Kimovich Baev (Павел Баев, born 22 May 1957 in Vladivostok, RSFSR, USSR), is a Norwegian political scientist and security scholar. He is currently a research professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)and a senior nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution (Washington, DC).

Baev graduated from Moscow State University (M.A. in economic and political geography, 1979) and worked in a research institute in the USSR Ministry of Defence. He received his PhD in international relations from the Institute for US and Canadian Studies in Moscow in 1988, then worked in the newly created Institute of Europe in Moscow until 1992, when he moved to Oslo, Norway and joined PRIO. In 1994-1996, he held a 'Democratic Institutions Fellowship" from NATO. From 1995-2001, Baev was co-editor of the academic journal Security Dialogue, and From 1999-2005 he was a member of the PRIO board.

Baev's current research includes the transformation of the Russian military, Russia – European Union relations, Russia's energy policy, Russia's policy in the Arctic, terrorism and conflicts in the Caucasus.