Taras Kuzio

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Taras Kuzio
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Taras Kuzio in 2015
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Taras Kuzio is a Professor of Political Science at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Kyiv, Ukraine). His area of study is Russian and Ukrainian political, economic and security affairs. [1] [2] [3]

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Education

Taras Kuzio is of Ukrainian descent. [4]

He received a BA in economics from the University of Sussex, an MA in Soviet studies from the University of London and holds a doctorate in political science from the University of Birmingham; [5] he was a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University.[ citation needed ]

Career

In 1986, Kuzio, based in London, began compiling and translating information on current events in Soviet Ukraine and provided this information to the media through the Ukraine Press Agency (UPA) in Great Britain. UPA was a branch of the officially British-registered company Society for Soviet Nationalities Studies, which published the bi-monthly Soviet Nationalities Survey (which had been launched in 1984 and continued until 1991) [6] and monthly Soviet Ukrainian Affairs (1987-89). [6] The Society for Soviet Nationalities Studies was financially supported by the Prolog Research and Publishing Corporation; [6] unbeknownst to Kuzio, the funds originated from the CIA as part of their QRPLUMB Project, although the CIA had no editorial input. [7] [ non-primary source needed ]

In 1992-93, Kuzio worked as a research fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. From 1993-95, he served as editor of the Ukrainian Business Review and directed the Ukrainian Business Agency. From 1995-98, he was a senior research fellow with the Centre for Russian and Eastern European Studies at the University of Birmingham in England, where he completed his PhD on nation- and state-building in Ukraine. In the second half of the 1990s, he was a senior research fellow at the Council of Advisers to the Ukrainian Parliament.[ citation needed ]

From 1998-99, he was director of the NATO Information and Documentation Center in Kyiv, Ukraine. [8] [5] He served as a long-term observer for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe during the 1998 and 2002 parliamentary elections in Ukraine, and as a National Democratic Institute observer in the 2004 Ukrainian presidential elections.[ citation needed ]

In 2004-06, he was a visiting professor in George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs' Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES). [9]

In 2010-11, he was an Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Visiting Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University in Washington D.C. [10]

In 2011-12, he was a visiting fellow at the Slavic Research Center at Hokkaido University in Japan. Subsequently,[ when? ] he was a senior research associate at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta. [8]

His most recent book is Russian Nationalism and the Russian-Ukrainian War (2022), [11] which was published prior to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. This follows two other books on Russia-Ukraine relations: Putin's War Against Ukraine: Revolution, Nationalism and Crime (2017) [12] and Ukraine: Democratisation, Corruption and the New Russian Imperialism (2015), [13] the latter of which surveys modern Ukrainian political history. He is the author and editor of sixteen books, including Open Ukraine. Changing Course towards a European FutureFrom Kuchmagate to Orange Revolution (2013), [14] Democratic Revolution in Ukraine (2011), [15] Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives on Nationalism (2007) [16] and Ukraine-Crimea-Russia: Triangle of Conflict (2007). [17] He has also comparatively researched empire loyalism in Northern Ireland and Donbas. [18] [19]

He is an associate research fellow at the UK Henry Jackson Society thinktank [20] [21] [22] and has contributed to the Atlantic Council, [21] [23] Foreign Affairs , [24] Kyiv Post , [25] New Eastern Europe , [26] and E-International Relations. [27]

Selected publications

Volumes Authored

Volumes Edited

Volumes Co-Authored

Think Tank Monographs

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References

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  2. Vlamis, Kelsey (8 October 2022). "Putin may have wanted to restore the Russian Empire, but his power over former Soviet states is waning as his invasion of Ukraine flounders". Business Insider. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
  3. Echols, William (14 April 2022). "Russia 'refrained from attacking Kyiv?' No, It Was Repelled". POLYGRAPH.info. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
  4. "Russian forces seize Chernobyl nuclear power plant". BBC News. 24 February 2022. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
  5. 1 2 "New Kyiv Information Officer appointed". Nato.int. 5 June 1998. Retrieved 30 December 2017.
  6. 1 2 3 Kuzio, Taras (2012). "U.S. support for Ukraine's liberation during the Cold War: A study of Prolog Research and Publishing Corporation". Communist and Post-Communist Studies. 45 (1/2). University of California Press: 51–64. ISSN   0967-067X. JSTOR   48609660 . Retrieved 25 January 2023.
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  9. "Lecturers - Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies - The Elliott School of International Affairs - The George Washington University". Gwu.edu. Retrieved 30 December 2017.
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  11. Kuzio 2022.
  12. Kuzio 2017.
  13. Kuzio 2015.
  14. Kuzio 2013.
  15. Kuzio & Hamilton 2011.
  16. Kuzio 2007a.
  17. Kuzio 2007b.
  18. Kuzio, Taras (1 September 2020). "Empire Loyalism and Nationalism in Ukraine and Ireland". Communist and Post-Communist Studies. 53 (3). University of California Press: 88–106. doi:10.1525/cpcs.2020.53.3.88. ISSN   0967-067X.
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  25. Kuzio, Taras. "Taras Kuzio, Author at Kyiv Post". Kyiv Post. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
  26. "Taras Kuzio Archives - A bimonthly news magazine dedicated to Central and Eastern European affairs". New Eastern Europe - A bimonthly news magazine dedicated to Central and Eastern European affairs. 13 July 2022. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
  27. "Taras Kuzio – E-International Relations". E-International Relations. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
  28. The Crimea: Europe's Next Flashpoint? Archived 9 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine , by Taras Kuzio, November 2010