Lilia Shevtsova is historicus en politicoloog. Na decennia verbonden te zijn geweest aan Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is ze sinds 2015 senior fellow van het Brookings Institute. Ze is tevens medewerker van The American Interest, voor welk blad ze in het voorjaar van 2016 de dertiendelige serie essays How the West misjudged Russia schreef. Ze woont en werkt in Moskou.

Lilia Shevtsova is in 1949 geboren in het huidige Lviv in West-Oekraïne. Ze studeerde geschiedenis en politicologie aan respectievelijk de Moskouse Staatsuniversiteit (MGOe), het Instituut voor Internationale Betrekkingen (MGIMO) en de Academie voor Sociale Wetenschappen van de communistische partij (CPSU).

Shevtsova publiceerde onder meer de volgende boeken:
Lonely Power: Why Russia Has Failed to Become the West and the West is Weary of Russia (2010)
Putin's Russia (2005)
Russia – Lost in Transition: The Yeltsin and Putin Legacies (2007)
Yeltsin's Russia: Myths and Reality (1999)

Historian and political scientist

Lilia Shevtsova studied at the Moscow State University, at the Institute for International Relations and the Academy for Social Sciences of the CPSU. Her research is focused on Russia’s post-communist transformation. She has published extensively on Russia’s domestic and foreign policy, political leadership, relations between Russia and the West and developments in Ukraine.

She worked for many years at the Carnegie Endownment for International Peace in Moscow. Since 2015 she is a senior fellow at the American thinktank Brookings Institute. Shevtsova (1949, Lviv) lives in Moscow.

In 2016 she wrote a series of 13 essays, titled How the West misjudged Russia, published in the journal The American Interest.

Shevtsova published many books, among which:
Lonely Power: Why Russia Has Failed to Become the West and the West is Weary of Russia (2010)
Putin's Russia (2005)
Russia – Lost in Transition: The Yeltsin and Putin Legacies (2007)
Yeltsin's Russia: Myths and Reality (1999)