Margot Light is Professor Emeritus of International Relations at the Department of International Relations of the London School of Economics and Political Science and Director of the Human Rights Programme in the Commonwealth of Independent States.
She is an expert on post-Soviet politics, and is a regular commentator and featured expert on both radio and television. Her research interests include east-west relations; Soviet, CIS and Russian defence, foreign and domestic policy; and eastern European foreign relations. She co-edits the Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics. Her publications include Putin's Russia and the Enlarged Europe (with R. Allison and S. White) (Blackwell: 2006); as well as many journal and book chapters, including 'Enlargement and the new outsiders' (with S. White and I. McAllister), Journal of Common Market Studies 40.1 (2002): 135-53; and 'The export of democracy', in K. E. Smith and M. Light (eds.), Ethics and Foreign Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp. 75-91.