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Lotman’s Cultural Semiotics and the Political (New Book)

(Co-authored with A. Yatsyk) Yuri Lotman (1922-1993) was a prominent Russian intellectual and theorist. This book presents a new reading of his semiotic and philosophical legacy. The authors analyse Lotman's semiotics in a…

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We Should Focus the “Realist” Lens on the Kremlin’s “Normalizers”

Kremlin policymakers continue to strategize ways to legitimize their actions toward Ukraine — alongside diminishing chances of Western sanctions being lifted and getting the Trump administration on Russia’s side. Moscow…

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Vocabularies of International Relations after the Crisis in Ukraine [NEW BOOK]

(Co-editors: A. Yatsyk and A. Makarychev) The conflict in Ukraine and Russia's annexation of Crimea has undoubtedly been a pivotal moment for policy makers and military planners in Europe and beyond. Many analysts see…

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Borders in the Baltic Sea Region: Suturing the Ruptures [NEW BOOK]

(Co-editors: A. Makarychev and A. Yatsyk) This book focuses on the recent political trajectories within the Baltic Sea Region from one of the success stories of regionalism in Europe to a potential area…

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Russia–EU Borderlands after the Ukraine Crisis: The Case of Narva

(Book chapter) (Co-author: A. Makarychev) Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the military insurgency in Ukraine’s eastern provinces triggered political and academic debates on various issues related to post-Soviet borderlands, above…

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Biopower and geopolitics as Russia’s neighborhood strategies: reconnecting people or reaggregating lands?

(Nationalities Papers) (Co-author: A. Yatsyk) In this article, we address geopolitics and biopower as two different yet mutually correlative discursive strategies of sovereign power in Russia. We challenge the dominant…

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Nation Building, Political Boundaries, and Cultural Authenticity: Post-Soviet Borderlands in Transformation

(Cambridge Scholars Publishing) (Co-author: A. Makarychev) This article analyzes today’s independent ex-Soviet borderlands (Ukraine, Georgia, and Estonia) of the Russian Federation. More precisely, the authors identify the cultural and social practices…

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