Dr. Margarete Klein is a Senior Associate in the Eastern Europe and Eurasia Division of the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) in Berlin. She received her PhD in 2001 from the Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, where she also served as a post-doctoral lecturer. In 2004, she joined the University of Regensburg as an assistant professor in Comparative Politics. Klein’s work has been published by SWP as well as Osteuropa, Zeitschrift für Aussen- und Sicherheitspolitik, Russian Analytical Digest, and The Moscow Times.