Focus areas: Post-Soviet Eurasia and Russia, autocracy research and cross-border cooperation of authoritarian states, Russian sub-national politics, impact of historical legacies on the contemporary political and social development of the post-Soviet countries
Focus areas (selection): Ukrainian and Russian politics, foreign policy, national and international security with a focus on the Euro-Atlantic region and the Arctic region
Focus areas: History of the Soviet Union, State Socialism and Neoliberalism, Exchange of liberal ideas after the collapse of the Soviet Union between Eastern Europe and the Global South
Focus areas: Post-communist transition processes (with a particular focus on Ukraine), Comparative democratisation and authoritarianism, War and ethnic conflicts in Eastern Europe, Migration from and within Eastern Europe, Protest dynamics, EU eastward enlargement/Eastern Partnership
Focus areas (selection): Global governance, international political theory, authoritarianism and populism research, emergence and functioning of inter- and supranational institutions, normative tensions and political conflicts.
