2026 Anders Åslund: Political Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Political Science	33	929	841	484	417	214	5008

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Political Science

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Overview

Anders Åslund is affiliated with the Peterson Institute for International Economics in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, with a particular emphasis on political science and international relations, sociology and political science, and economics and econometrics.

The scholar's work addresses key topics including:

European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies
Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics
Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics
Communism, Protests, Social Movements
European Politics and Security
Economic Sanctions and International Relations
Russia and Soviet political economy

Frequent publication venues for Anders Åslund's research include:

Europe Asia Studies
Eurasian Geography and Economics
European View
SSRN Electronic Journal
Intereconomics

Among recent papers, notable publications are:

"Responses to the COVID-19 crisis in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus" (2020) in Eurasian Geography and Economics
"Navalny. Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future?" (2022) in Europe Asia Studies
"Taking Stock of Shock. Social Consequences of the 1989 Revolutions" (2022) in Europe Asia Studies
"Weak Strongman. The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia" (2022) in Europe Asia Studies
"The view from Washington: How the new Biden administration views the EU's eastern neighbourhood" (2021) in European View

Co-authors who have frequently collaborated with Anders Åslund include:

Jan Hagemejer
Samuel Greene

In addition to journal articles, Anders Åslund has contributed to book publications, including a work published by eBooks titled : 30 in 2020.

Best Publications

How Russia became a market economy

Robert Legvold;Anders Åslund

508
Citations
How to Stabilize: Lessons from Post-Communist Countries

Andres Aslund;Peter Boone;Simon Johnson;Stanley Fischer

416
Citations
Building Capitalism: The Transformation of the Former Soviet Bloc

Anders Aslund

405
Citations
How Capitalism Was Built: The Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia

Anders Aslund

252
Citations
Gorbachev's Struggle for Economic Reform

Anders Åslund

166
Citations
How Ukraine became a market economy and democracy

Anders Åslund

156
Citations
Russia's Capitalist Revolution: Why Market Reform Succeeded and Democracy Failed

Anders Åslund

147
Citations
Revolution in orange : the origins of Ukraine's democratic breakthrough

Anders Åslund;Michael Anthony McFaul

124
Citations
Post-communist Economic Revolutions: How Big A Bang?

Anders Åslund

113
Citations
How Latvia Came Through the Financial Crisis

Anders Åslund;Valdis Dombrovskis

103
Citations
The Last Shall Be the First: The East European Financial Crisis

Anders Åslund

85
Citations
Changing the Economic System in Russia

Anders Åslund;P. R. G. Layard

80
Citations
How capitalism was built : the transformation of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia

Anders Åslund

79
Citations
Russia After the Global Economic Crisis

Anders Åslund;S. M Guriev;Andrew C Kuchins

79
Citations
Ukraine: What Went Wrong and How to Fix It

Anders Åslund

73
Citations
Russia's Collapse

Anders Aslund

67
Citations
The Economic Policy of Ukraine after the Orange Revolution

Anders Åslund

65
Citations
Russia's Economic Transformation under Putin

Anders Åslund

61
Citations
Why Has Russia's Economic Transformation Been So Ardous?

Anders Aslund

58
Citations
Escaping the Under-Reform Trap

Anders Åslund;Peter Boone;Simon Johnson

51
Citations
How Capitalism Was Built

Anders Åslund

40
Citations
Getting It Wrong: Regional Cooperation and the Commonwealth of Independent States

Robert Legvold;Martha Brill Olcott;Anders Åslund;Sherman Garnett

39
Citations
The Great Rebirth: Lessons from the Victory of Capitalism over Communism

Anders Åslund;Simeon Djankov

31
Citations
Russia's Crony Capitalism: The Path from Market Economy to Kleptocracy

Anders Aslund

11
Citations
Russian economic reform at risk

Anders Åslund

9
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Simeon Djankov London School of Economics and Political Science

Robert Legvold Columbia University

Gary Clyde Hufbauer Peterson Institute for International Economics

Simon Johnson MIT

Marcelo Olarreaga University of Geneva

Xiaobo Zhang Peking University

Patrick Bolton Imperial College London

Richard N. Cooper Harvard University

André Sapir Université Libre de Bruxelles

Ravi Kanbur Cornell University

External Links

Personal website of Anders Åslund

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