About

Christopher A. Hartwell is Head of the International Management Institute at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) School of Management and Law, Professor of International Management at Kozminski University in Poland, Visiting Professor at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA), and Fellow and former President of the Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE) in Warsaw. A leading scholar on the evolution of economic institutions. Dr. Hartwell’s interests are in institutional development, especially the interplay between financial institutions and other political and economic institutions and how firms deal with institutional volatility. Over his career, Professor Hartwell has advised governments in Kazakhstan, Armenia, Russia, Poland, Tonga, Kosovo, and numerous other countries around the world, and has published in journals such as Journal of World Business, Global Strategy Journal, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Explorations in Economic History, Journal of Comparative Economics, Regional Studies, Cambridge Journal of Economics, and Journal of Institutional Economics. Dr. Hartwell holds a PhD in Economics from the Warsaw School of Economics, a Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard, and a BA in Political Science and Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. He is also the author of Two Roads Diverge: The Transition Experience of Poland and Ukraine (Cambridge University Press, 2016), as well as Institutional Barriers in the Transition to Market: Examining Performance and Divergence in Transition Economies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).

Research Interests

Europe (Central and Eastern), Cleavages, Comparative Politics, Conflict, Constitutions, Democratisation, Development, Elites, Environmental Policy, European Politics, European Union, Globalisation, Governance, Institutions, Political Competition, Political Economy, Political Leadership, Political Psychology, Political Violence, Populism, Terrorism, Political Sociology, Euro, Freedom, International, War, Causality, Corruption, Policy Change, Political Regime, Capitalism, Empirical, European Parliament, Eurozone

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Standing Groups and Research Networks

• Elites and Political Leadership
• Political Violence