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Staff Profile: Andrew Wilson

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Andrew Wilson is a Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. Previously he was a Reader in Ukrainian Studies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), University College London. He is also an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of International Affairs. He has published widely on the politics and culture of the European neighbourhood, particularly on Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, and on the comparative politics of democratisation in the post-Soviet states, especially its corruption by so-called ‘political technology’.

Areas of Expertise: Russia, Ukraine and the ‘neighbourhood’, the comparative politics of the post-Soviet states. 

Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, some Belarusian & French.

Contact details: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), Mob: +44 7920 421066

ECFR publications:

The limits of enlargement-lite: European and Russian power in the troubled neighbourhood, report, published 16 June 2009

Can the EU win peace in Georgia?, policy brief, 25 August 2008 

Meeting Medvedev: The Politics of the Putin Succession, policy brief, 28 February 2008.

Other recent publications include: 

Ukraine - From Orange Revolution to Failed State?, speech gave at briefing in Washington DC, 29 May 2009.

After Georgia: is Ukraine next?, EU Observer, 5 September 2008

Russia's post-election balance, Open Democracy, 3 March 2008

Ukraine’s Orange Revolution (Yale University Press, 2005) 

Virtual Politics: Faking Democracy in the Post-Soviet World (Yale University Press, 2005)

The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation (Yale University Press, 2000)