U.S. Foreign Policy: What Wins Hearts and Minds in Ukraine?
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) How does U.S. policy toward Ukraine resonate with the Ukrainian public? What kind of policies in Washington make the most positive or negative impact, and why?…
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Mikhail Alexseev
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Professor of Political Science
Affiliation
San Diego State University
Expertise
Ukraine, Russia, Caucasus, Politics, Interstate and Internal Wars, Nationalism, Ethnic Relations, Immigration in Russia/Eurasia
Pandemic Politics in Eurasia: Roadmap for a New Research Subfield
(Problems of Post-Communism) The sudden onset of COVID-19 has challenged many social scientists to proceed without a robust theoretical and empirical foundation upon which to build. Addressing this challenge, particularly…
Under the Cover of COVID-19: Reverse Irredentism Rising in East Ukraine’s “People’s Republics”
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) With the spread of COVID-19 to Europe, policy patterns in the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics (DNR/LNR) indicate that these “separatist entities,” which Moscow engineered in 2014…
Through Europe’s Gate, Out of Russia’s Net: How Ukrainians’ Visa-Free EU Travel Offsets Moscow’s Disinformation
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Public opinion surveys indicate that among Ukrainian citizens who used bezviz, the EU-Ukraine visa-free travel arrangement, support for Ukraine’s integration with the EU and NATO strengthened,…
Crimea Come What May: Do Economic Sanctions Backfire Politically?
(Journal of Peace Research) (Co-authored by Henry Hale) Abstract: Do international economic sanctions backfire politically, resulting in increased rather than decreased domestic support for targeted state leaders? Backfire arguments are common,…
Russian TV has enthusiastically covered the Trump-Ukraine scandal
(Monkey Cage blog) Russian state-controlled television has been extensively covering the news that President Trump allegedly pressured Ukraine’s president to investigate the son of former vice president Joe Biden, who is leading in…
Ukraine’s Counterintuitive Democratic Stoicism: Supporting Democracy-Building in a War-Torn State
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Numerous academic studies have shown that economic hardship, ethnoregional divides, corrupt governance, and war are bad for democracy, particularly in states where democracy has weak historical roots.…
How Do Ukrainians Want to End the Donbas War?
(PONARS Policy Memo) Whereas it is hard to imagine the Donbas retuning fully to Ukraine’s control without Russia ending its multi-year military and economic backing of the separatist entities there, the…
Breaking from “The Conflict Trap”: Donbas War Exposure and Support for Nonviolent Conflict Resolution in Ukraine
Mikhail Alexseev (San Diego State University) discusses his research analyzing the effects of war exposure on the political orientations of Ukraine’s citizens. Alexseev Podcast .mp3 Episode 17
Why Trump’s Bid to Improve U.S.-Russian Relations Backfired in Congress
(PONARS Policy Memo) One of Donald Trump’s 2016 keynote foreign policy pledges was to improve relations with Russia. Few would have predicted that after a year in office, his plan would…