Dr. Domitilla Sagramoso is a Senior Lecturer in Conflict and Security at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. She is an expert on Russia’s foreign and security policy in the post-Soviet space. Her publication Russian Imperialism Revisited: From Disengagement to Hegemony, (Routledge, 2020), examines Russia’s policies towards the former USSR states since 1991, within the framework of “Hegemony” and “Neo-Empire” theories of international relations.

She is currently working on a project that examines the drivers that led to the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. She is also developing a cooperative project with the Kyiv School of Economics (Ukraine) on the military and diplomatic “lessons learnt” from the current war. 

Domitilla is also an expert on Islamist jihadism in the Russian North Caucasus and has published extensively on these topics in various academic journals (Europe-Asia Studies, International Affairs, Perspectives on Terrorism, New Perspectives). She is a regular commentator on current affairs with several media outlets (BBC, Al Jazeera, Deutsche Welle, LBC and Times Radio). Domitilla holds a Ph.D. in Russian Foreign Policy from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London (2000) and an MA in War Studies, King’s College London (1992).