Alexey Davydov is a research fellow at the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO) Center of North American studies. In 2014, he graduated from the Department of world politics and international relations of the State Academic University for the Humanities based at the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute for USA and Canada Studies and, in 2017, from postgraduate program at IMEMO. He specializes on the U.S. foreign policy, including in the Middle East, Central and South Asia, on the U.S. strategies of ―democracy promotion, counterterrorism and postconflict peacebuilding, and international development assistance.