Director, Center for Strategic and Foreign Policy Studies
Arseny Sivitsky is the co-founder and director of Minsk-based Center for Strategic and Foreign Policy Studies. He is a Belarusian security and foreign policy analyst, focusing on international and regional security, strategic affairs, Russia and Eurasia. He graduated with honours and has a master’s degree in Philosophy from the Belarusian State University. He is currently doing his doctoral research in the field of social philosophy and methodology of science at the Institute of Philosophy, Belarusian National Academy of Science. He also works there as a research fellow at the Center for Study of Globalization, Integration and Socio-Cultural Cooperation. He is a military officer in reserve of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus. As an independent foreign policy and strategy advisor he cooperates with a range of consultancy agencies, specialising in investment, political and security risks assessment and post-Soviet space area.