Bettina Renz

Bettina Renz is Professor of International Security at the University of Nottingham's School of Politics & IR. She obtained an MA and MSc in Russian Studies at the University of Edinburgh and completed her PhD at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham. She has previously lectured for King's College London at the Royal Air Force College and was a visiting professor at the Canadian Forces College in 2020 and the Finnish National Defence University in 2024. Her research expertise is Russian security and defence policy in the post-Cold war era. She has published widely on military reforms, civil-military relations and military operations other than war. Her latest monograph, 'Russia's Military Revival', was published with Polity in 2018.