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2026

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D-Index
32
Citations
2579
World Ranking
1034
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Political Science in Spain Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Political Science in Spain Leader Award

Overview

Anastassia Obydenkova is affiliated with the Instituto de Análisis Económico in Spain. Their research predominantly falls within the social sciences, with a focus on political science and international relations, sociology and political science, general energy, economics and econometrics, and development.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Russia and Soviet political economy
  • Global energy security and policy
  • Arctic and Russian policy studies
  • International relations and foreign policy
  • Soviet and Russian history
  • Transboundary water resource management
  • Political conflict and governance

Obydenkova has published extensively in several journals, with the most frequent venues being:

  • Post-Communist Economies
  • Problems of Post-Communism
  • Climatic Change
  • Territory Politics Governance
  • Communist and Post-Communist Studies

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Democratization and Firm Innovation: Evidence from European and Central Asian post-Communist States" (2020), Post-Communist Economies
  • "Environmental conflict, renewable energy, or both? Public opinion on small hydropower plants in Serbia" (2021), Post-Communist Economies
  • "Geopolitical games in Eurasian regionalism: ideational interactions and regional international organisations" (2020), Post-Communist Economies
  • "Environmental conflict management: a comparative cross-cultural perspective of China and Russia" (2021), Post-Communist Economies
  • "Environmental commitments and rhetoric over the Pandemic crisis: social media and legitimation of the AIIB, the EAEU, and the EU" (2021), Post-Communist Economies

The scientist has collaborated frequently with other researchers, including:

  • Alexander Libman
  • Zafar Nazarov
  • Vinícius Rodrigues Vieira
  • Mile Mišić
  • Jale Tosun

In addition to journal articles, Obydenkova has a book publication titled Historical Legacies of Communism, released in 2021 by Cambridge University Press.

Best Publications

  • Authoritarian and Democratic Diffusion in Post-Communist Regions:

    Tomila V. Lankina;Alexander Libman;Alexander Libman;Anastassia Obydenkova

  • “Corruption and Trust in the European Union and National Institutions: Changes over the Great Recession across European States”

    Anastassia V. Obydenkova;Anastassia V. Obydenkova;Bruno Arpino

  • Authoritarian Regionalism in the World of International Organizations

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  • Understanding Authoritarian Regionalism

    Alexander Libman;Anastassia V. Obydenkova

  • Regime transition in the regions of Russia: The freedom of mass media: Transnational impact on sub‐national democratization?

    Anastassia Obydenkova

  • Appropriation and Subversion: Precommunist Literacy, Communist Party Saturation, and Postcommunist Democratic Outcomes

    Tomila V. Lankina;Alexander Libman;Anastassia Obydenkova

  • Understanding the survival of post-Communist corruption in contemporary Russia: The influence of historical legacies

    Anastassia Obydenkova;Alexander Libman

  • Regional International Organizations as a Strategy of Autocracy: The Eurasian Economic Union and Russian foreign policy

    Alexander Libman;Anastassia V. Obydenkova

  • Democracy and Political Trust Before and After the Great Recession 2008: The European Union and the United Nations

    Bruno Arpino;Anastassia V. Obydenkova;Anastassia V. Obydenkova;Anastassia V. Obydenkova

  • Informal governance and participation in non-democratic international organizations

    Alexander Libman;Anastassia Obydenkova

  • Comparative Regionalism: Eurasian Cooperation and European Integration. the Case for Neofunctionalism?:

    Anastassia Obydenkova

  • The Impact of External Factors on Regime Transition: Lessons from the Russian Regions

    Anastassia Obydenkova;Alexander Libman

  • Democratization at the grassroots: the European Union's external impact

    Anastassia V. Obydenkova

  • Authoritarian Regionalism in the World of International Organizations: Global Perspective and the Eurasian Enigma

    Alexander Libman;Anastassia V. Obydenkova

  • Governance of Commons in a Large Nondemocratic Country: The Case of Forestry in the Russian Federation

    Alexander Libman;Anastassia V. Obydenkova

  • Communism or communists? Soviet legacies and corruption in transition economies

    Alexander Libman;Anastassia Obydenkova

  • Communism or communists? Soviet legacies and corruption in transition economies

    Alexander Libman;Anastassia Obydenkova

  • International Trade as a Limiting Factor in Democratization: an Analysis of Subnational Regions in Post-Communist Russia

    Alexander Libman;Anastassia Obydenkova

  • “Climate Change Policies: The Role of Democracy and Social Cognitive Capital”

    Anastassia V. Obydenkova;Anastassia V. Obydenkova;Raufhon Salahodjaev

  • Intelligence, democracy, and international environmental commitment

    Anastassia Obydenkova;Anastassia Obydenkova;Raufhon Salahodjaev

  • The process of deforestation in weak democracies and the role of Intelligence

    Anastassia Obydenkova;Zafar Nazarov;Raufhon Salahodjaev;Raufhon Salahodjaev

  • Autocracy-Sustaining Versus Democratic Federalism: Explaining the Divergent Trajectories of Territorial Politics in Russia and Western Europe

    Anastassia Obydenkova;Wilfried Swenden

  • CPSU Legacies and Regional Democracy in Contemporary Russia

    Alexander Libman;Anastassia V. Obydenkova

  • Appropriation and subversion: pre-communist literacy, communist party saturation, and post-communist democratic outcomes

    Tomila V. Lankina;Alexander Libman;Anastassia Obydenkova

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexander Libman
Alexander Libman Freie Universität Berlin
Philippe C. Schmitter
Philippe C. Schmitter European University Institute

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