Dessie P. Zagorcheva

About

Dr. Dessie Zagorcheva is a political scientist with expertise in international relations. She teaches courses in global politics and American government. Her research focuses on authoritarianism, global far right networks, and the geopolitical dynamics of autocracy promotion. Last year, she received the Zora Neale Hurston Writing Fellowship for her book project The Kremlin’s Corrosive Capital, which examines Russia’s use of sharp power, including its efforts to build and finance a global network of far right political parties and movements, as well as its disinformation campaigns in the EU and the US. With a grant from CUNY Graduate Center, she serves as the principal investigator of a university-wide project on digital disinformation and media literacy. Zagorcheva has published work in International Security, The Journal of Slavic Military Relations, The National Interest, The International Lawyer, and others.

You can read her writing for the Center for European Policy Analysis here.