Mikhail Molchanov is a Canadian political scientist and international relations scholar. He has taught at several universities in Canada and held visiting appointments at the American University of Sharjah, Waseda University and Aoyama Gakuin University in Japan, the United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS) in Brugge, Belgium, the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University and the University of Salamanca. His research focuses on international relations in Eurasia and international political economy of regional integration. He is Foreign Member of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine. Dr. Molchanov’s research has been supported by the United Nations University, the United States Institute of Peace, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Japan Foundation. Dr. Molchanov has authored and co-authored 7 books and nearly 150 articles and book chapters.