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Overview

Taras Kuzio is affiliated with the National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy in Ukraine. Their primary research contributions belong to the Social Sciences, focusing predominantly on Political Science and International Relations as well as Sociology and Political Science. Additional fields of study include Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, along with Global and Planetary Change.

Kuzio's research encompasses a range of topics related to Eastern European political developments and geopolitical dynamics. Key topics in their work include:

  • Eastern European Communism and Reforms
  • European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies
  • European Politics and Security
  • Soviet and Russian History
  • Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics
  • Environmental and Biological Research in Conflict Zones
  • Security, Politics, and Digital Transformation

The scientist has published extensively, with a significant number of articles appearing in the journal Europe Asia Studies. Other publication venues include Nations and Nationalism, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, and Journal of Contemporary European Studies. Frequent co-authorship appears with Anna Oliinyk.

Prominent recent publications include:

  • "Imperial nationalism as the driver behind Russia's invasion of Ukraine" (2022, Nations and Nationalism)
  • "Russia and Ukraine. Entangled Histories, Diverging States" (2024, Europe Asia Studies)
  • "The Euromaidan Revolution, Reforms and Decommunisation in Ukraine" (2021, Europe Asia Studies)
  • "Armies of Russia's War in Ukraine" (2020, Europe Asia Studies)
  • "The Burden of the Past. History, Memory, and Identity in Contemporary Ukraine" (2021, Europe Asia Studies)

In addition to articles, Kuzio has published a book titled "Russia's War on Ukraine", forthcoming in 2025 from Cambridge University Press.

Best Publications

  • The myth of the civic state: a critical survey of Hans Kohn's framework for understanding nationalism

    Taras Kuzio

  • Transition in Post-Communist States: Triple or Quadruple?

    Taras Kuzio

  • Ukraine: State and Nation Building

    Taras Kuzio

  • Ukraine : Perestroika to Independence

    Taras Kuzio;Andrew Wilson

  • History, memory and nation building in the post-Soviet colonial space

    Taras Kuzio

  • Sultanism in Eastern Europe: The Socio-Political Roots of Authoritarian Populism in Belarus

    Steven M. Eke;Taras Kuzio

  • NATIONALISING STATES’ OR NATION-BUILDING? A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE THEORETICAL LITERATURE AND EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE

    Taras Kuzio

  • Politics and society in Ukraine

    Paul J. D'Anieri;Robert S. Kravchuk;Taras Kuzio

  • From Kuchma to Yushchenko Ukraine's 2004 Presidential Elections and the Orange Revolution

    Taras Kuzio

  • Civil society, youth and societal mobilization in democratic revolutions

    Taras Kuzio

  • Ukraine under Kuchma: Political Reform, Economic Transformation and Security Policy in Independent Ukraine

    Taras Kuzio

  • Regime type and politics in Ukraine under Kuchma

    Taras Kuzio

  • Identity and nation-building in Ukraine: Defining the 'Other'

    Taras Kuzio

  • Nationalism, identity and civil society in Ukraine: Understanding the Orange Revolution

    Taras Kuzio

  • National identity and history writing in Ukraine

    Taras Kuzio

  • Geopolitical pluralism in the CIS: The emergence of GUUAM

    Taras Kuzio

  • Ukraine between a Constrained EU and Assertive Russia

    Taras Kuzio

  • The Opposition's Road to Success

    Taras Kuzio

  • Nothing personal: explaining the rise and decline of political machines in Ukraine

    Serhiy Kudelia;Taras Kuzio

  • Ukrainian security policy

    Taras Kuzio

  • Red Famine. Stalin’s War on Ukraine

    Taras Kuzio

  • Contemporary Ukraine : dynamics of post-Soviet transformation

    Taras Kuzio

  • Russia and the Western Far Right. Tango Noir

    Taras Kuzio

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