Dr Andrew Wilson

Reader in Ukrainian Studies

Dr Andrew Wilson is away from SSEES, working at the European Council for Foreign Relations, until September 2010.

My first degree was at Oxford, my PhD is from the LSE. I am now Senior Lecturer in Ukrainian Studies here at SSEES, UCL.

Research Interests
Since 1991 I have written extensively on politics and culture in independent Ukraine, and in the comparative politics of post-Soviet democracy, particularly its corruption by so-called 'political technology'.

My recent publications include Ukraine's Orange Revolution (Yale University Press 2005); Virtual Politics: Faking Democracy in the Post-Soviet World (Yale University Press 2005); and The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation (Yale University Press 2000, revised paperback edition 2002).

Teaching and supervision

The Making of Modern Ukraine (BA and MA)
Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Former Soviet Union (MA)

I am able to supervise any PhD on post-Soviet politics, particularly if on Ukraine, Belarus or Russia, or on issues of post-Soviet national identity and nationalism.

Current Projects

Various projects looking at how 'virtual politics' has developed since Ukraine's Orange Revolution in 2004.

A political history of Belarus, to be finished by the end of 2008.

Recent Publications

Links

'"Virtual Politics" in the ex-Soviet bloc', 17 June 2007

'Ukraine's crisis of governance', 1 May 2007

This page last modified Wednesday 26 May 2010.