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John Löwenhardt is a Dutch social scientist and family historian, retired Sovietologist. He received his PhD at the University of Amsterdam in May 1981 and was affiliated with the universities of Amsterdam (1976-86, Institute of East European Studies), Leiden (1986-97, Institute of East European Law and Russian Studies) and Glasgow (1997-2002). The the University of Glasgow he was the first holder of the Alexander Nove Chair of Russian and East European Studies and Director of the Institute of Russian and East European Studies. After his return to The Netherlands in 2002 Löwenhardt was Head of the Communications Department of the University for Humanistics (Utrecht) and researcher at the Clingendael Institute for International Affairs http://www.clingendael.nl/ in The Hague. The last seven years of his career John Löwenhardt was Senior Analyst on Russian Affairs in the civil service of the Kingdom of The Netherlands.