Ivan Kharitonov

Doctoral Researcher

Ivan Khari­tonov is a is a Doctoral Researcher in the LOEWE Group World Orders in Conflict and a fellow at IfW Kiel. His research focuses on inter­national arms transfers, defense economics, and eco­nomic and military foreign aid.

Ivan Kharitonov
kharitonov(at)prif.org

CV

| since 2024
Doctoral Researcher at PRIF

| 2023–2024
Junior Researcher at IfW Kiel

| 2022–2023
Research Assistant at IfW Kiel

| 2021–2022
Research Assistant, BF/M-Bay­reuth (Institute for SME Issues at the Uni­versity of Bayreuth), Bayreuth

| 2020–2024
M.A. History & Economics, University of Bayreuth

| 2019–2020
Research Assistant, National Research Uni­versity — Higher School of Eco­nomics, Moscow & Lomo­nosov Moscow State Uni­versity, Moscow

| 2016–2020
B.A. History, Lomo­nosov Moscow State Uni­versity, Moscow

Publications

  • Institutionelle Friedenssicherung in Bewegung: Wie viel Frieden steckt noch in der Weltordnung?
    | 2025
    Abb, Pascal; Bethke, Felix; Deitelhoff, Nicole; Driedger, Jonas; Hach, Sascha; Kharitonov, Ivan; Kroll, Stefan; Peters, Dirk; Polianskii, Mikhail; Weipert-Fenner, Irene; Witt, Antonia; Wolff, Jonas (2025): Institutionelle Friedenssicherung in Bewegung: Wie viel Frieden steckt noch in der Weltordnung?, in: Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)/Leibniz-Institut Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (PRIF)/Institut für Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik an der Universität Hamburg (IFSH)/Institut für Entwicklung und Frieden (INEF) (eds), Friedensgutachten 2025: transcript Verlag, 115–129.
    Publication

  • Fit for War in Decades
    | 2024
    Wolff, Guntram B.; Burilkov, Alexandr; Bushnell, Katelyn; Kharitonov, Ivan (2024): Fit for War in Decades. Europe’s and Germany’s slow rearmament vis-à-vis Russia, Kiel Report, 1, Kiel: Kiel Institute for the World Economy.
    Publication
  • Who Helps Ukraine, and How?
    | 2023
    Kharitonov, Ivan (2023): Who Helps Ukraine, and How?. Ukraine: The War That Changed the World, One Year On, ISPI, Milan.
    Publication

  • The Ukraine Support Tracker
    | 2023
    Trebesch, Christoph; Antezza, Arianna; Bushnell, Katelyn; Frank, André; Frank, Pascal; Franz, Lukas; Kharitonov, Ivan; Kumar, Bharath; Rebinskaya, Ekaterina; Schramm, Stefan; Schade, C.; Weiser, L. (2023): The Ukraine Support Tracker. Which countries help Ukraine and how?, Kiel Working Paper, 2218.
    Publication

Further Activities

  • Media Award 2022/23, IfW Kiel