" Focusing on regime trajectories across the former Soviet Union, Pluralism by Default posits
that political competition in" new democracies" has often been grounded less in well …

This book is the first to provide an in-depth understanding of the 2014 crisis, Russia's
annexation of Crimea and Europe's de facto war between Russia and Ukraine. The book …

Close examination and analysis of the Kremlin's framing of Russia's annexation of Crimea
reveals that domestically it was presented in unprecedented national irredentist terminology …

The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv reveals the local and transnational forces behind the
twentieth-century transformation of Lviv into a Soviet and Ukrainian urban center. Lviv's …

The colour revolutions, and especially the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, are widely
perceived as major international setbacks to Putin's Russia. The Ukrainian events alarmed …

This article discusses two inter-related issues. Firstly, the factors lying behind Russia's
fervent belief that its Novorossiya (New Russia) project, aimed to bring back to Russia eight …

Despite the recent global uptick in white supremacist terrorism, governments continue to
face accusations of not taking the threat seriously, either discursively or in terms of policy …

This article discusses the lessons that can be drawn from post-Soviet experiences of
democratisation in hybrid regimes for debates on Central and Eastern Europe …

In February 2022, Russian missiles rained on Ukrainian cities, and tanks rolled towards Kyiv
to end Ukrainian independent statehood. President Zelensky declined a Western evacuation …

The term 'fascist'has been misused by both the Soviet totalitarian system and Russian
authoritarian nationalist militocracy to such an extent that it is detached from scholarly …