Taras Kuzio

Taras Kuzio received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Sussex, a Master of Arts in Area Studies: The U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe from the University of London, and a PhD in Political Science from the University of Birmingham, England. Currently he is a fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations, the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C. He has held positions at the University of Alberta, George Washington University, University of Toronto, and Chief of Mission to the NATO Information and Documentation Office in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Taras Kuzio is the author and editor of seventeen books including, with Paul D’Anieri, The Sources of Russia’s Great Power Politics: Ukraine and the Challenge to the European Order coming out in 2018. What we’re going to be talking about today is the book that came out in 2017 called Putin’s War Against Ukraine: Revolution, Nationalism, and Crime. Also a book called Ukraine: Democratization, Corruption, and the New Russian Imperialism in 2015, From Kuchmagate to the Orange Revolution in 2009, and Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives on Nationalism from 2007. He is the author of five think tank monographs including The Crimea: Europe’s Next Flashpoint from2010.

Taras Kuzio is also the author of thirty-eight book chapters and one hundred scholarly articles on Ukrainian and Post-Communist politics, democratic transitions, colour revolutions, nationalism, and European studies. He has been the guest editor of ten academic journals including: Communist and Post-Communist Studies, East European Politics and Societies, Nationalities Papers, The Journal of Communist Studies and Transitional Politics, and the Problems of Post-Communism.