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Andrey Makarychev

210 posts
Visiting Professor, Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies
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University of Tartu, Estonia
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Johan Skytte Institute (Bio), "PONARS as a Transnational Epistemic Community: An Insider's View" (2010 article)
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Russian Foreign and Security Policies, EU-Russian Relations, Issues of Regionalism and Federalism
The Minsk–Khabarovsk nexus: Ethical, performative, corporeal
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The Minsk–Khabarovsk nexus: Ethical, performative, corporeal

  • January 5, 2021
  • Andrey Makarychev
(Sage) This essay attempts to juxtapose mass-scale protest movements that almost simultaneously erupted in summer 2020 in Belarus and Russia’s Far East. In spite of dissimilar root causes of both events,…
Twigg: I worry about whether or not people are going to be willing to take Sputnik V in Russia
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Twigg: I worry about whether or not people are going to be willing to take Sputnik V in Russia

  • December 17, 2020
  • Andrey Makarychev
(Global News) While excitement and enthusiasm greeted the Western-developed coronavirus vaccine when it was rolled out, the Russian-made version has received a mixed response, with reports of empty Moscow clinics that offered the shot to health…
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Culture as an Instrument

  • December 14, 2020
  • Andrey Makarychev
(NJCP) Introduction: What is an instrument? According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, it can be understood, for instance, as “a means or implement by which something is achieved, performed, or furthered”…
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The Coronavirus and the Future of Liberalism

  • December 1, 2020
  • Andrey Makarychev
(Mezinárodní vztahy) Abstract: The outbreak of COVID-19 has significantly reshaped debates on the global order, democratic politics and the liberal mode of governing societies. Some have compared the virus to the “ultimate…
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Precarious Sovereignty in a Post-liberal Europe: The COVID-19 Emergency in Estonia and Finland

  • October 23, 2020
  • Andrey Makarychev
(Chinese Political Science Review) Abstract: The paper addresses a puzzle resulting from the current global state of alert: the coronavirus pandemic brought us back to the world of the allegedly sovereign…
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The Hot August in Belarus: Post-Election Dynamics and Policy Options

  • August 18, 2020
  • Andrey Makarychev
(3dcftas.eu) This policy paper addresses the most acute political issues that now follow the August 9, 2020 presidential election in Belarus, a member of EU’s Eastern Partnership and one of Russia’s…
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Russian “cognitive propaganda”: the case of Impressum Club in Tallinn

  • August 7, 2020
  • Andrey Makarychev
(Post-Soviet Affairs) Abstract: The object of my analysis is the Tallinn-based discussion club Impressum, known as a platform for spreading pro-Kremlin interpretations of political matters. These public speeches give a broad…
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The Advent of Biopolitics: Repercussion for the EU, Russia, and Eastern Partnership Countries

  • July 27, 2020
  • Andrey Makarychev
(3 DCTFAs) The COVID-19 had significantly changed the structure of world politics by shifting its core from issues of geopolitics to what in the academic literature for quite some time…
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Governing the Pandemic in Finland and Estonia

  • July 23, 2020
  • Andrey Makarychev
(PONARS Eurasia Commentary) In this article, we analyze the management and political implications of COVID-19 in two small countries located at the EU’s north-eastern border: Finland and Estonia. Culturally, ethnically, and linguistically, they share a…
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Gone with the virus. How the pandemic makes Russian strategy evanescent

  • July 11, 2020
  • Andrey Makarychev
(NEE) The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in three major blows to the Kremlin’s international strategy, thus making it adjust to much less favourable circumstances than when Vladimir Putin annexed Crimea and…
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