Hoffmann's major fields of research and teaching are (1) Comparative
politics, especially state-society relations and Russian domestic institutions;
(2) Democratization and marketization in postcommunist transitions;
(3) Political economy of industrialized societies; (4) International
politics, especially East-West relations and Russian foreign policy.
Publications include Can
Democracy Take Root in Post-Soviet
Russia? Explorations in State-Society
Relations (1998), Post-Communist
Studies and the Social Sciences:
Essays on Methodology and Empirical
Theory (1993), Soviet Foreign
Policy: Classic and Contemporary
Issues (1991), and Technocratic
Socialism: The Soviet Union in
the Advanced Industrial Era (1985).
