Mikhail Alexseev
Department of Political Science

~Vita~

Education

Ph.D. University of Washington, Political Science (International Relations, Comparative Politics/Post-Soviet Studies; American Politics), 1996

M.A. (equivalent) Kiev State Institute of Foreign Languages, 1989

B.A. (summa cum laude) Kiev State University: English, French, International Studies, 1985

Professional and Employment History

2009-present: Full Professor, Political Science Department, San Diego State University

2002-2009: Associate Professor, Political Science Department, San Diego State University

2000-2002: Assistant Professor, Political Science Department, San Diego State University.

1998-2000: Assistant Professor, comparative politics and post-Soviet studies,
Appalachian State University (member institution, University of North Carolina)

1997-98: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies Program and Pacific Northwest Colloquium on International Security; principal investigator, “Russian Regions in Asia” Project.

1997: Title VIII Research Scholar, The George F. Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC.

1997-2012: Adjunct Master Professor of International Relations, Special Operations University; U.S. Air Force Special Operations School, Hurlburt Field, Florida (Russia/Eurasia Orientation Course, topics: Russian ethnic regions and conflicts, Chechnya and North Caucasus).

1991-96: Graduate teaching assistant, Political Science, University of Washington.

Since 1990: Op-ed contributor/commentator. Publications in: The New York Times, Newsweek, USA Today, Toronto Globe and Mail, The Seattle Times, San Jose Mercury News, The Oregonian, The Virginian Pilot/Ledger Star. Commentary on C-SPAN; KIRO TV (CBS); KING TV (NBC); KOMO TV (ABC); KCTS-9 (PBS); American Public Radio. Special correspondent at the Clinton-Yeltsin 1993 Vancouver Summit and Yeltsin's 1994 Pacific Northwest visit, The Seattle Times. Over 50 articles on post-Soviet politics.

1987 - 1990: Senior correspondent; Head of the Political News Department, News from Ukraine. Coverage/interviews with Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, Francois Mitterrand, Brian Mulroney, George Shultz, Sir Geoffrey Howe. Extensive coverage of political institutions in Russia and Ukraine. Major assignments: USSR Supreme Soviet (Kremlin, Moscow); Ukrainian Supreme Soviet; Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Ukraine; Foreign Ministry of Ukraine. Over 150 articles on Soviet and Ukrainian politics, life. Special assignments in: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Lithuania, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.

1984 - 1987: News editor/producer, Radio Kiev, Ukrainian SSR State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting, English Service. Oversaw daily production of news bulletins and produced approximately 200 news analysis programs in the "Ukraine Today" series.

Scholarly Refereed Books

Mass Religious Ritual and Intergroup Tolerance: The Muslim Pilgrims’ Paradox (Cambridge University Press, 2017), in a series: Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion, and Politics (with Sufian Zhemukhov). Winner: Best Book Award, International Studies Association, Religion and International Relations (2019); Honorable Mention: David Rothschild’s Prize, Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University (2018).

Immigration Phobia and the Security Dilemma: Russia, Europe, and the United States (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006).

Center-Periphery Conflict in Post-Soviet Russia: A Federation Imperiled (New York: St. Martin’s Press/London: Macmillan, 1999), editor.

Without Warning: Threat Assessment, Intelligence, and Global Struggle (New York: St. Martin's Press/London: Macmillan, 1997).

Peer-Reviewed Articles

“Geosocietal Support for Democracy: Survey Evidence from Ukraine,” Perspectives on Politics (April 2024) (with Serhii Dembitskyi): https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592724000422.

“Victory-in-freedom: Ukraine’s democratic resilience in the face of war,” Sociology: Theory, Methods, Marketing (June 2024) (with Serhii Dembitskyi)DOI: 10.15407/sociology2024.02.040

“Pandemic Politics in Eurasia: Roadmap for a New Research Subfield,” Problems of Post-Communism (2021) 68:1, 1-16, DOI: 10.1080/10758216.2020.1812404 (with Marlene Laruelle, Cynthia Buckley, Ralph S. Clem, J. Paul Goode, Ivan Gomza, Henry E. Hale, Erik Herron, Andrey Makarychev, Madeline McCann, Mariya Omelicheva, Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, Regina Smyth, Sarah Wilson Sokhey, Mikhail Troitskiy, Joshua A. Tucker, Judyth Twigg & Elizabeth Wishnick).

“Crimea Come What May: Do Economic Sanctions Backfire Politically?” Journal of Peace Research (Fall 2019) 57: 1-16 DOI: 10.1177/0022343319866879 (with Henry E. Hale).

“War and Support for Democracy: The Asymmetry of Direct Exposure and Socialization Effects,” Sotsiologiya [Sociology, Ukraine National Academy of Sciences journal] (April – May, 2017): 4-15.

“Blocs, States, and Borderlands: Explaining Russia’s Selective Territorial Revisionism,” Eurasian Border Review 6(1) (2016): 1-23.

“From Mecca with Tolerance: Religion, Social Recategorisation and Social Capital,” Religion, State, and Society 44(1) (2016): 371-391 (with Sufian Zhemukhov).

“The Asymmetry of Nationalist Exclusion and Inclusion: Migration Policy Preferences in Russia, 2005-2013,” Social Science Quarterly 96 (2015): 759-777.

“Border Demarcation, Cross-Border Migration, and Interethnic Hostility in the Russian Far East,” Eurasian Border Review 3(2) (2012): 1-21

“Societal Security, the Security Dilemma, and Extreme Anti-Migrant Hostility in Russia,” Journal of Peace Research 48(4) (2011): 509-523.

“Majority and Minority Xenophobia in Russia: The Importance of Being Titular,” Post-Soviet Affairs 26 (2) (April-June 2010): 89-120.

“Ballot-Box Vigilantism: Ethnic Population Shifts and Xenophobic Voting in Post-Soviet Russia,” Political Behavior 28 (3)(September 2006): 211-240.

“Vospriiatie masshtabov migratsii v Rossii: etnoregional’nye izmereniia I psihologiia tsifr,” [Perceptions of Migration Scale in Russia: Ethnoregional Dimensions and the Psychology of Numbers], Monitoring Obshchestvennogo Mneniia [Public Opinion Monitor], Levada Analytical Center, Moscow, Russia 84 (4) (July-August 2006).

“Russia, China, and the Immigration Security Dilemma” Political Science Quarterly (Spring 2006): 1-32 (with C. Richard Hofstetter).

“Economic Valuations and Interethnic Fears: Perceptions of Chinese Migration in the Russian Far East,” Journal of Peace Research 40(1) (January 2003): 89-106.

“Regionalism in Russian Foreign Policy in the 1990s: A Case of Reversed Anarchy,” Donald Treadgold Papers (The University of Washington, Seattle: Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies Series, 2003, edited by Sabrina Ramet), No. 37, pp. 2-48.

“Decentralization vs. State Collapse: Explaining Russia’s Endurance After Soviet Disintegration,” Journal of Peace Research 38 (1) (2001): 111-116.

“Socioeconomic and Security Implications of Chinese Migration in the Russian Far East,” Post-Soviet Geography and Economics 42, no. 2 (2001): 95-114.

“Ugrozhaet li Rossii kitaiskaia migratsiia? Territorial’naia bezopasnost’, ekonomicheskoe razvitie I mezhetnicheskie otnosheniia v Primorskom krae” [Is Chinese migration a threat to Russia? Territorial security, economic development, and interethnic relations in Primorskii krai] Mirovaia ekonomika i mezhdunarodnye otnosheniia [World Economy and International Relations, IMEMO journal] Nos. 11 and 12 (November and December 2000).

“Watching Out for Regional Separatism in the Russian Far East: Ideological Cueing of Territorial Security, Economic Incentives, and Cultural Identity,” Geopolitics 4 (3) (Winter 2000): 120-144.

“Russia in Asia or Asia in Russia? Regional Identity and Economic Incentives for Political Separatism in Primorskii krai,” Pacific Focus, vol. 14, no. 2 (1999): 117-52. (with Tamara Troyakova)

“Russian Regions in Expanding Europe: The Pskov Connection” (with Vladimir Vagin), Europe-Asia Studies 51, no. 1 (1999): 43-64.

“Early Warning, Ethnopolitical Conflict, and the United Nations: Assessing the Violence in Georgia/Abkhazia,” Nationalities Papers 26 (2) (June 1998): 191-213.

"Russia's 'Cold Peace' Consensus: Transcending the Presidential Election," The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs 21:1 (Spring-Summer 1997): 33-49.

"For Whom the Gates Open: News Reporting and Government Source Patterns in the United States, Great Britain, and Russia," Political Communication 12 (1995): 395-412 (with W. Lance Bennett)

"When Ukraine is No Longer 'Little Russia'," Oxford International Review 2 (1990): 29-32.

Chapters in Refereed Books

“From the North Caucasus to Mecca and Back: An Unanticipated Journey to Tolerance” (with Sufian Zhemukhov), in Ian S. McIntosh, Nour Farra Haddad and Dana Munro, Peace Journeys: A New Direction in Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Research, Cambridge Scholars, 2020, pp. 25-45.

“Russia and Central Asia” (Global and Regional Dimensions of the Securitization of Migration), in Philippe Bourbeau, editor, Handbook on Migration and Security, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017, pp. 363-395.

“Rallying ‘Round the Leader More than the Flag: Changes in Russian Nationalist Public Opinion 2013-14,” in Pal Kolsto, editor, The New Russian nationalism, 2000-2015: Imperialism, Ethnicity, Authoritarianism, Edinburgh University Press, 2016 (with Henry E. Hale), Chapter 7.

“Backing the USSR 2.0: Russia’s Ethnic Minorities and Expansionist Ethnic Russian Nationalism,” in Pal Kolsto, editor, The New Russian nationalism, 2000-2015: Imperialism, Ethnicity, Authoritarianism, Edinburgh University Press, 2016, Chapter 6.

“Borderline Strategies: Calibrated Territorial Expansionism in the Game Theory Searchlight,” in Andrey Makarychev and Alexandra Yatsyk, eds., Concepts in Flux: New and Old Vocabularies of International Relations After the Ukraine Crisis, Ashgate, forthcoming 2016.

“International Borders and International Relations Theory: In Search of Optimal Balances Between Security and Economic Interests,” Sergei Sevastianov, Paul Richardson and Anton Kireev, eds. Borders and Transborder Processes in Eurasia, Russian Far Eastern State University Press (2013), pp. 11-30.  

“Local vs. Transcendent Insurgencies: Why Economic Aid Helps Lower Violence in Dagestan, but not in Kabardino-Balkaria,” William Ascher, Natalia Mirovitskaya, and Jay Heffron, eds., Economic Development Strategies and Inter-Group Violence, Palgrave/MacMillan (2013), pp. 277-314.

“Are Cultural Tensions “Cultural”? Public Responses to Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese Migration in the Russian Far East,” in William Ascher and Jay Heffron, eds., Cultural Change and Persistence: New Perspectives on Development, Palgrave/Macmillan (2010), pp. 82-111.

“Fear Has Wide Eyes: Why Do Russians See Some Migrant Minorities as More Numerous than Others?,” in Marlène Laruelle, ed., Nationalism in Contemporary Russia, Routledge (2009), pp. 167-184.

“Nationhood Vigilantism in the Global Semi-Periphery: Migration and Ethnoreligious Hostility in Russia,” in Adam Eberhardt & Akihiro Iwashita, eds., Security Challenges in the Post-Soviet Space: European and Asian Perspectives, Polish Institute of International Affairs, Slavic Research Center Hokkaido  University, Warsaw-Sapporo 2007.

“Migration, Hostility, and Ethnopolitical Mobilization: Russia’s Anti-Chinese Legacies in Formation,” in Blair Ruble and Dominique Arel, eds., Rebounding Identities: The Politics of Identity in Russia and Ukraine (Woodrow Wilson Center Press & The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006), pp.116-148.

“Back to Hell: Civilian-Military ‘Audience Costs’ and Russia’s Wars in Chechnya,” Chapter 4 in Stephen L. Webber and Jennifer G. Mathers, eds., The Military and Society in Post-Soviet Russia (Manchester University Press, 2005).

“Chinese Migration into Primorskii Krai: Economic Effects and Interethnic Hostility,” in Shinichiro Tabata and Akihiro Iwashita, eds. Slavic Eurasia’s Integration into the World Economy and Community (Sapporo: Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, 2004), pp. 329-367.

“Russia’s Security Challenges in the ‘Near Abroad’ from Yeltsin to Putin,” in Stephen Wegren, ed. Russia’s Security Challenges in the 21st Century (M.E. Sharpe, 2003), pp. 38-57.

“Center-Periphery Conflict as a Security Dilemma: Moscow vs. Vladivostok,” in Graeme P. Herd and Anne Aldis, eds., Russian Regions and Regionalism: Strength through Weakness? (London: RoutledgeCurzon Press, 2003), pp. 164-184.

“Desecuritizing Sovereignty: Economic Interest and Responses to Political Challenges of Chinese Migration in the Russian Far East,” in John D. Montgomery and Nathan Glazer, eds., Sovereignty under Challenge: How Governments Respond (Transaction Publishers, 2002), pp. 261-289.

“Chinese Migration in the Russian Far East: Security Threats and Incentives for Cooperation in Primorskii Krai,” in Judith Thornton and Charles Ziegler, eds., Russia’s Far East: A Region at Risk? (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002), pp. 319-348.

“From the Cold War to the ‘Cold Peace:’ U.S.-Russian Interactions from Gorbachev to the Present,” in Sabrina Ramet and Christine Ingebritsen, eds., Coming In From the Cold War: Changes in U.S.-European Interactions Since 1980, vol.2 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001), pp. 147-172.

“Introduction: Challenges to the Russian Federation,” in Mikhail A. Alexseev, ed., Center-Periphery Conflict in Post-Soviet Russia: A Federation Imperiled (New York: St. Martin’s Press/London: Macmillan, 1999), pp. 1-14.

 “Conclusion: Asymmetric Russia: Promises and Dangers,” in Mikhail A. Alexseev, ed., Center-Periphery Conflict in Post-Soviet Russia: A Federation Imperiled (New York: St. Martin’s Press/London: Macmillan, 1999), pp. 247-280.

“Fortress Russia or Gateway to Europe? The Pskov Connection” (with Vladimir Vagin), in Mikhail A. Alexseev, ed., Center-Periphery Conflict in Post-Soviet Russia: A Federation Imperiled  (New York: St. Martin’s Press/London: Macmillan, 1999), pp. 167-204.

 “A Mirage of the ‘Amur California’: Regional Identity and Economic Incentives for Political Separatism in Primorskiy Kray” (with Tamara Troyakova), in Mikhail A. Alexseev, ed. Center-Periphery Conflict in Post-Soviet Russia: A Federation Imperiled  (New York: St. Martin’s Press/London: Macmillan, 1999), pp. 205-246.

Articles in Refereed Proceedings, Peer-Reviewed Working Papers & Similar Publications

“Anchored in Freedom: Ukrainians’ Will to Fight Back in Harder Times,” Program on New Approaches to Research on Security – Eurasia (PONARS Eurasia), Policy memo No. 902 (https://www.ponarseurasia.org/anchored-in-freedom-ukrainians-will-to-fight-back-in-harder-times/) (June 2024) (with Serhii Dembitskyi)

“For Victory in Freedom: Why Ukrainian Resilience to Russian Aggression Endures,” Program on New Approaches to Research on Security – Eurasia (PONARS Eurasia), Policy memo No. 863 (https://www.ponarseurasia.org/for-victory-in-freedom-why-ukrainian-resilience-to-russian-aggression-endures/) (November 2023) (with Serhii Dembitskyi)

“Getting Ukraine Right: From Negotiations Trap to Victory,” Ukraine Task Force, Program on New Approaches to Research on Security – Eurasia (PONARS Eurasia), Analytic Paper (https://www.ponarseurasia.org/task-forces/ukraine-2/) (June 2023).

"Ukrainians Believe They’ll Win the War, a Survey Finds: They’re Optimistic About the Future, Despite Months of Trauma." In The Washington Post Monkey Cage Academic Blog (with Serhii Dembitskyi) (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/15/ukraine-survey-war-democracy-resilience/). (August 15, 2022).

"Striking Back at the Empire: Ukrainians Converge on Values and National Belonging."  Program on New Approaches to Research on Security (PONARS Eurasia) Policy Memo No. 793 (with Serhii Dembitskyi) (October 2022). https://www.ponarseurasia.org/striking-back-at-the-empire-ukrainians-converge-on-values-and-national-belonging/.

“U.S. Foreign Policy: What Wins Hearts and Minds in Ukraine?” Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia (PONARS Eurasia), The George Washington University, Policy Memo No. 716 (October 2021)

“Under the Cover of COVID-19: Reverse Irredentism Rising in East Ukraine’s ‘People’s Republics’,” Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia (PONARS Eurasia), The George Washington University, Policy Memo No. 716 (June 2020)

“Through Europe’s Gate, Out of Russia’s Net: How Ukrainians’ Visa-Free EU Travel Offsets Moscow’s Disinformation,” Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia (PONARS Eurasia), The George Washington University, Policy Memo No. 627 (November 2019).

“Russian TV has enthusiastically covered the Trump-Ukraine scandal: The coverage treats Trump, Biden and democracy as equally corrupt.” Monkey Cage/Washington Post October 1, 2019,https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/10/01/russian-tv-has-enthusiastically-covered-trump-ukraine-scandal/

“Ukraine’s Counterintuitive Democratic Stoicism: Supporting Democracy-Building in a War-Torn State,” The George Washington University, Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia, PONARS Policy Memo No. 600. June 2019.

“How Do Ukrainians Want to End the Donbas War?” Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia, The George Washington University, PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 555 December 2018

“Why Trump’s Bid to Improve U.S.-Russian Relations Backfired in Congress,” Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia, The George Washington University, PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 507 February 2018. 

“A Poisoned Chalice: How Minsk Accords Destabilize Ukraine,” Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia (PONARS Eurasia), The George Washington University, Policy Memo No. 456, March 2017.

“Russia’s Far East Transborder Pains: China Threat Syndrome and the Tragedy of the Anticommons,” ASAN Forum, online journal on the Asia-Pacific region of the Asan Institute for Policy Studies, Seoul, Korea, December 7, 2016, http://www.theasanforum.org/russias-far-east-transborder-pains-china-threat-syndrome-and-the-tragedy-of-the-anticommons/.

“The Tale of Three Legitimacies: The Shifting Tone and Enduring Substance Of Moscow’s Ukraine Policy,” Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia (PONARS Eurasia), The George Washington University, Policy Memo No. 431, June 2016.

“War and Sociopolitical Identities in Ukraine,” Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia (PONARS Eurasia), The George Washington University, Policy Memo No. 392, October 2015.

“Russians See Ukraine as an Illegitimate State,” Monkey Cage/Washington Post, May 20, 2015 (co-authored with Henry E. Hale).

“A New Wave of Russian Nationalism? What Really Changed in Public Opinion After Crimea,” (co-authored with Henry E. Hale), Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia (PONARS Eurasia), The George Washington University, Policy Memo No. 362, May 2015.

“Russia’s Ethnic Minorities: Putin’s Loyal Neo-Imperial "Fifth Column." Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia (PONARS Eurasia), The George Washington University, Policy Memo 328, August 2014.

“Laggiu nell’Estremo Est la sinofobia russa non molla la presa,” Revista Italiana di Giopolitica (8 August 2014): 43-50.

“Parting with ‘Asian Balkans:’ Perceptions of Chinese Migration in the Russian Far East, 2000-2013,” Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia  (PONARS Eurasia), The George Washington University, Policy Memo No. 319 April 2014

“Strength Without Kindness: Russia’s Persistent Xenophobia and the State,” Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia (PONARS Eurasia), The George Washington University, Policy Memo No. 306 (January 2014), also published in the proceedings of “The Future of the EU-Russia Neighborhood,” PONARS Eurasia Workshop, Chisinau, Moldova, December 6-7, 2013.

“Beyond the Polls: Google Queries and Public Protest Volatility in Russia,” Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia (PONARS Eurasia), The George Washington University, Policy Memo No. 278. (September 2013).

“Crossing Borders, Validating Sovereignty: Russia, Georgia, and the WTO.” Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia (PONARS Eurasia),The George Washington University, Policy Memo No. 241. (September 2012).

“Sochi Surprise: Imagining Change In Moscow’s Caucasus Policy,” Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia (PONARS Eurasia), The George Washington University, Policy Memo No. 185 (September 2011).

“Rubles Against the Insurgency: Paradoxes from the North Caucasus Counties,” Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia (PONARS Eurasia), The George Washington University, Policy Memo No. 157, http://ponarseurasia.org/blog/policy-memos/2011-2/ (March 2011).

“A Vicious Circle: The Security Implications of Rising Anti-Americanism in the North Caucasus,” Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia (PONARS Eurasia), The George Washington University, Policy Memo No. 113 (October 2010), www.gwu.edu/~ieresgwu/assets/docs/pepm_113.pdf

“The Impact of the Hajj Pilgrimage in the North Caucasus,” Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia (PONARS Eurasia), The George Washington University, Policy Memo No. 74 (September 2009) http://ceres.georgetown.edu/esp/ponarsmemos/page/78408.html

“Russia as a Declining Migration State,” feature article, NewsNet, a monthly bulletin of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (March 2009).

“Overcounting Russia’s Muslims: Implications for Security and Society,” Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia (PONARS Eurasia), The George Washington University, Policy Memo No. 27 (August 2008), conference briefing book, http://ceres.georgetown.edu/esp/ponarsmemos/page/55923.html

“Separatism,” in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd edition, William A. Darity, Jr. (ed.) (MacMillan Reference USA, 2007).

“The Houses that Khrushchev and Brezhnev Built: Citadels of Support or Incubators of Political Protest?”
Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS), Center for Strategic and International Studies, Policy Memo No. 419, Washington, DC, December 2006.

“Xenophobia in Russia: Are the Young Driving It?” Policy Memo No. 367, Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS), Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC, December 2005.

“Security Sell-Out in the Caucasus: How Government Centralization Backfires,” Policy Memo, Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS), Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC, February 2005.

“Vostok-2003 War Games: Preparing to Defend a Nigeria on the Pacific,” Center for Strategic and International Studies, Policy Memo No. 317, Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS), Washington, DC, December 2003.

“Chechnya: 9/11, the Moscow Hostage Crisis and Opportunities for Political Settlement,” Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS), Center for Strategic and International Studies, Policy Memo No. 250, Washington, DC, December 2002.

“Assuaging Ethnic Factionalism Dagestan's Lessons for Post-Taliban Settlement in Afghanistan,” Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS), Center for Strategic and International Studies, Policy Memo No. 210, Washington, DC, January 2002.

“What Drives Russia Coverage in the Mainstream American Press?” Policy Memo No. 192, Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS), Washington, DC, May 2001, presented at the Carnegie Moscow Center in Moscow, May 28, 2001.

"The Chinese are Coming: Public Opinion and Threat Perception in the Russian Far East,” Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS), Council on Foreign Relations, Policy Memo No. 184, Washington, DC, February 2001.

“U.S. War on Terrorism: How Do Russian Muslims Respond,” Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS), Council on Foreign Relations, Policy Memo No. 206, Washington, DC, November 2001.

“Globalization at the Edges of Insecurity: Migration, Interethnic Relations, Market Incentives and International Economic Interactions in post-Soviet Russia’s Border Regions,” Working Paper, Center for Security Studies and Conflict Research, (Zurich, Switzerland, 2001).

“Instrumental Internationalization: Regional Foreign and Security Policy Interests in Primorskii Krai,” Working Paper, Center for Security Studies and Conflict Research (Zurich, Switzerland, 2001).

“What Drives Russia Coverage in the Mainstream American Press?” Policy Memo No. 192, Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS), Moscow Carnegie Center, Moscow, Russia, May 2001.

From Strategic Partnership to Pragmatic Relationship: Domestic Sources of Russia’s Perceptions of the United States in the Late 1990s,” in Russian National Security: Perceptions, Policies, and Prospects, (U.S. Army War College, Center for Strategic Leadership, 2001).

"The Chinese are Coming: Public Opinion and Threat Perception in the Russian Far East,” Policy Memo No. 184, Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS), Council on Foreign Relations, Washington, DC, February 2001.

“Russia’s Periphery in the Global Arena: Do Regions Matter in Shaping the Kremlin’s Foreign Policy?” Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS), Council on Foreign Relations, Policy Memo No. 156, Washington, DC, December 2000.

“Are Chinese Migrants a Threat? Territorial Insecurity, Economic Incentives, and Interethnic Relations in Primorskii krai,” Working Paper, National Council for Eurasian and European Research, Washington, DC, 2000.

“Chinese Migration in Primorskii Krai: An Assessment of Its Scale, Socioeconomic Impact, and Opportunities for Corruption,” Working Paper, National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, Washington, DC, 1999.

“From Chechnya to the Pacific: Dealing with Unintended Consequences of Anti-Federalist Centralization in Russia,” Policy Memo No. 117, Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS), Washington, DC Conference, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, March 2000.

“The ‘Yellow Peril’ revisited: The Impact of Chinese Migration in Primorskii krai,” Policy Memo No. 94, Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS), Washington, DC Conference, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, November 5, 1999.

“Chinese Migration in Primorskii Krai: An Assessment of Its Scale, Socioeconomic Impact, and Opportunities for Corruption,” Working Paper, National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, Washington, DC, December 1999.

 

Research Grants, Fellowships, Externally Funded Projects

National Science Foundation: War, Society, and Democracy (three waves of panel surveys and focus groups in Ukraine, 2023-2024) (with Prof. Henry Hale, George Washington University, co-P.I.) ($74,987).

Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia (George Washington University): Follow-up (panel) survey on war effects on democracy support in Ukraine, with the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences Institute of Sociology, 2022 ($10,000).

Hostler Research Stipend (SDSU), to conduct focus groups and interviews on the impact of war exposure on political attitudes in Ukraine in the summer of 2017 ($7,000).

University Grants Program (SDSU): “War Exposure and Support for Democracy: A Survey Experiment in Ukraine” (2017, $10,000).

University of Oslo and Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) (2013-2016) “New Russian Nationalism (NEORUSS)” design and analysis of mass surveys in Russia, 2013-2015, member of the international expert team (approx. $15,000 value).

The National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (U.S. Department of State, Title VIII) (2006-2008): “Migration and Inter-Minority Xenophobia in the Russian Federation” includes surveys in the North Caucasus ($39,950).

National Science Foundation: "Migration and Ethnoreligious Hate Crime in the Russian Federation: Risk Profiles 2000-2010,” (award no. SES-0452557) (2005-2007) (with Prof. Richard Hofstetter, Co-P.I.) ($212,890)

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation: Research and Writing Grant of the Program on Global Security and Sustainability (2005-2007): “The ‘Number Game:’ Sources of Public Support for Anti-Migrant Exclusionism in Post-Soviet Russia” (with Prof. Sergey V. Golunov, Volgograd State University ($87,000)

John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress: “The Origins of Hostility: Migration, Insecurity, and Ethnic Prejudice at the Russia-China Border” (2002-2003): ($31,500)

San Diego State University: An award of one-half time release in Spring 2002 for research on Chinese migration in the Russian Far East and an award of Grants-in-Aid for graduate research assistant.

United States Institute of Peace (2000-2001): “Chinese Migration in the Russian Far East: Event-Data and Survey Design for Preventive Monitoring of Nationalist Activism” ($40,000).

Pacific Basin Research Center, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and the Soka University of America (2000-2001): “Chinese Migration in the Russian Far East: Preventive Monitoring of Ethnopolitical Activism with Surveys and Event Data Analysis” ($30,000).

Center for Strategic and International Studies: member of the Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS), a collaborative project for U.S. and Russian scholars (formerly with the Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University, and the Council on Foreign Relations) (since 1999)

Carnegie Corporation of New York/National Bureau of Asian Research: contributor to the successful grant proposal and participant in the project, “Security Implications of Political and Economic Developments in the Russian Far East” (1999-2000).

National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (U.S. Department of State Title VIII funding) (1999-2000), ($11,000) w/additional support from the University Research Council, Appalachian State University, and the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies: “Cross-Border Migration, Corruption, and Interethnic Security in the Russian Far East,” including field research in Primorskii krai.

Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (U.S. Department of State Title VIII funding), Washington, DC (1997): Research Scholarship, project title: "Predicting Ethnopolitical Conflicts in the Former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe: The Experience of the U.N. Early Warning System." Major case studies are: Tajikistan (1992, 1993-95), Nagorno Karabakh (1988-1994), Chechnya (1994-96), and Abkhazia (1993). The early warning practices at the U.N. were studied to gather data and test propositions ($18,000).

International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) (1997): Travel grant to Russia, Moscow and Dagestan, for the project: "Russian-Chechen Wars in the Long-Perspective;" 2000: Travel grant to Russian, Moscow and Vladivostok, Chinese Migration project. ($3,500)

Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC (1995): A grant to study the U.S. National Intelligence Estimates on the Soviet Union and international communism at The National Archives, Washington, DC, in support of the Ph.D. dissertation research ($2,000)

NATO, Democratic Institutions Fellowship (1990-91) ($6,000)

Reuters International Journalism Fellowship at the University of Oxford, England (1990).

Original Databases

Opinion Surveys

• Ukraine annual monitoring: A set of proprietary questions on war violence exposure added to the Ukraine 2016 (July), 2017 (July), 2018 (October), 2019 (September), 2020 (September-October), and 2021 (November) annual social surveys of the Institute of Sociology of Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences (N=1,800 each year; with oversamples of the Donbas region in 2017  [N=399] and for combat service in 2018 [N=400]) and incorporated into the pooled survey dataset; includes field report and questionnaire.
  
  
• Ukraine longitudinal pre/post war onset study: (a) Pooled data including the 2021 (November) survey Institute of Sociology of Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences (1,800); with the same respondents reinterviewed in 2022 (June-July) following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine (N=475), in 2023 (June) (N=409), and 2023-24 (December/January) (N=371); (b) Pooled data of the additional survey based on the same questionnaire 2023 (June) (N=869), with the same respondents reinterviewed in 2023-24 (December/January) (N=488).

Event-Data: Violent Insurgency in Russia’s North Caucasus, 2008-2013 (over 5,000 event records); based on Russian media reports and human rights monitor reports from the region; systematically collected data on use of force and casualties by predominantly Islamist-related insurgents and government forces and affiliated violent actors; combined with the analysis of Internet and social media use in the North Caucasus, including international connections, particularly with the Arab world and the use of the Arabic language in the North Caucasus.

Opinion Survey: Inter-Minority Xenophobia in the Russia Federation, based on opinion surveys conducted by the Moscow Analytical Levada Center, under the grant by the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (see reference below), in December 2006-January 2007 among Armenians in Krasnodar Krai (N=400), Adygeans in the Republic of Adygea (N=200), Azerbaijanis in Dagestan (N=200), and Kazakhs in Volgograd Oblast (N=208), total N=1,008.

Event Data: Ethnoreligious Violence in the Russian Federation, 2002-2006 (N=1,000), hate violence events (murder, assassination, assault, arsons, pogroms, harassment, menacing, criminal mischief [e.g., cemetery desecration, vandalism], etc.) categorized by ethnicity and religious affiliation of perpetrators and victims, broken down by province/city/
County; severity controlled by applying the hate violence index based on the methodology developed by the Global Events Data Systems (University of Maryland) for coding internal conflict intensity.

Opinion Survey: Migration and Ethnic Relations in the Russian Federation; first database received 10/07/2005, N=4,740, based on multistage probability sampling of the population of the Russian Federation (N=680), Moscow Oblast (N=400), Moscow City (N=400), Krasnodar krai (N=650), Tatarstan (N=650), Volgograd Oblast (N=650), Orenburg Oblast (N=650) conducted by the Levada Analytical Center (Moscow), and Primorskii krai (N=660), conducted by the Public Opinion Research Laboratory, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences (completed 12/1/2005). 

Aggregate Data: Ethnic Composition of the Russian Federation, 1989-2002—data on ethnic group size, proportion, size change and proportion change from 1989 through 2002, recorded in the censuses of the Russian Federation, aggregated by (a) 89 constituent regions (oblast, krai, and republic) and (b) by over 3,000 counties and urban administrative districts of the Russian Federation [under construction]

Aggregate Data: Migration in the Russian Federation, 1992-2004: migration levels and migration level change, with breakdown by country of origin for 89 constituent units (regions and republics) of the Russian Federation, based on Russian State Committee for Statistics annuals [available upon request]

Opinion Survey: “Economic Valuations and Interethnic Fears: Perceptions of Chinese Migration in the Russian Far East.” Conducted in Primorskii krai, September 2000, N=1010. Stratified random sampling proportionate to estimated population size.” Deposited at the Library Archive at the Vladivostok Institute of History, Ethnography and Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok 690000, Pushkinskaia Street, 89. Reference numbers are, as transliterated from Russian: Fond 1, opis’2, delo 435. (Posted on “Russia in Asia” web site, www.rohan.sdsu.edu/~alexseev).

“Economic Valuations and Interethnic Fears: Perceptions of Chinese Migration in the Russian Far East,” Publications Related Archive, University of Michigan, Inter-University Consortium of Political and Social Research, Study No. 1256 (www.icpsr.umich.edu).

“Chinese Migration and Nationalist Activism in the Russian Far East, 1993-2000,” an event-data base of over 3,250 event summaries on developments affecting Chinese migrants in Primorskii krai, Russia; the summaries are coded to COPDAB/GEDS specifications). (www.rohan.sdsu.edu/~alexseev)

Conference Papers and Invited Presentations

“War and Meaning of Democracy: Survey and Focus Groups Evidence from Ukraine,” Paper presented at the at the Central East European International Studies Association and International Studies Association Joint International Conference 2024 (June 21, 2024), Rijeka, Croatia.

“For Victory in Freedom: Why Ukrainian Resilience to Russian Aggression Endures,” Program on New Approaches to Research on Security – Eurasia (PONARS Eurasia), Spring Policy Conference (online), Washington, DC, George Washington University, March 31, 2024.

“Endgame Scenarios for the Russia-Ukraine War,” Invited presentation, Domestic Politics of Support for Ukraine in Europe Research Workshop, Claremont McKenna College, February 23, 2024.

“Victory-in-Freedom: A View from Kyiv,” Invited presentation, the University of San Diego Department of Political Science and International Relations Pearson-Chambers Symposium on “The World at War,” February 22, 2024.

“Rallying-‘Round-Democracy: Wartime Panel Survey Findings in Ukraine,” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2, 2023, Los Angeles (with Henry E. Hale and Serhii Dembitskyi).

“Transnational News and Wartime Rallying for Democracy: Panel Survey Results from Ukraine,” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 17, 2022, Montreal, Canada.

“Russia’s Ethnic Minorities, Ethnic Majority Nationalism, and Dynamic State Identity,” guest lecture, The George Washington University, via zoom, November 22, 2021.

“Vote, We Will Provide the Fire Cover:" Ukraine’s Democracy in the Face of War,” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, 10 September 2020.

“Through Europe's Gate, Out of Russia's Net: How Visa-Free Travel to the EU Offsets Moscow's Information Influence in Ukraine,” Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State and Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia, The George Washington University, September 12&13, 2019.

“The Russian Perspective/Strategy Regarding North Korea,” Naval Postgraduate School, Oxnard, CA, July 19, 2019.

“Who and Why Supports Democracy-Building in War-Torn States? Insights from Ukraine Public Opinion,” Presentation, Yerevan State University, and George Washington University, Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia, Yerevan, Armenia, November 2018.

“The Geo-Emotional Way Out of “The Conflict Trap:” Donbas War Exposure and Support For Conflict Resolution In Ukraine. Border Regions in Transition conference, Association for Borderland Studies, Nigeria – Benin, October 15-18, 2018 (BRIT-2018), October 2018.

“Of Leaders, Flags, and Wars: Nationalist Rallying in Russia and Ukraine,” Paper presented at the 114th Annual Meeting & Exhibition of the American Political Science Association, Boston, August 30 – September 2, 2018.

“Understanding US-Russia Relations” Panel presentation. Special public event sponsored by the U.S. Congresswoman Susan Davis, San Diego State University, July 28, 2018.

“Breaking from ‘The Conflict Trap:’ Donbas War Exposure and Support for Nonviolent Conflict Resolution In Ukraine.” Working Paper, London School of Economics/King’s College London, Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia, March 2018.

“Freedom Under Fire: War Exposure and Support for Democracy in Ukraine,” University of San Diego, January 22, 2018.

“Why Trump’s Bid to Improve U.S.-Russian Relations Backfired in Congress,” Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia, PONARS Eurasia Conference, New York University, November 2017.

“A Poisoned Chalice: How Minsk Accords Destabilize Ukraine,” Osher Institute, UC-San Diego, October 17, 2017.

“War Exposure and Support for Democracy: Socialization Matters,” Paper, presented at the 20th Anniversary Policy Conference, Program on New Approaches to Research on Security – Eurasia, George Washington University, September 19, 2017.

“Of Leaders, Flags, and Wars: Comparing Nationalist Rallying in Russia and Ukraine After Crimea and Donbas,” Paper, presented at the Academic and Policy Workshop, Program on New Approaches to Research on Security – Eurasia, George Washington University and Karmazin University, Kharkiv, Ukraine, June 20, 2017.

“Ukraine’s Precarious Position: War, Diplomacy, and Support for Democracy,” North County San Diego, World Affairs Council, April 20, 2017.
“New Perspectives on Russia-China Borders,” Roundtable paper presentation, Western Social Studies Association and the Association of Borderland Studies Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 13, 2017.

“Russia-China Borders: How State Security Becomes the Tragedy of the Anti-Commons,” US-Japan Institute, Washington, DC, special forum presentation, February 27, 2017.

“Sources of Russian Foreign Policy,” presentations at the Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and the Santa Fe American Councils on Foreign Relations, invited by the George F. Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, October 13-14, 2016.

“A Poisoned Chalice: How Minsk Accords Destabilize Ukraine,” Policy memo presented at the annual policy conference of the Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia (PONARS Eurasia), The George Washington University, September 23, 2016.

“Minsk Ceasefire Framework: What Constitutes Failure of the Process?” invited presentation at the Analytic Exchange on Ukraine, U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC, August 3, 2016.

“Crimea Come What May: International Sanctions and Domestic Regime Support in Target States,” (with Henry E. Hale). Paper presented at the Academic Conference of the Program on New Approaches to Research on Security in Eurasia (PONARS), University of Helskinki, June 2016 and at the Capstone Conference for the NEORUSS Research Project funded by the Research Council of Norway, “Nation-Building and Nationalism in Today’s Russia,” University of Tallinn, Estonia, April 29, 2016.

“’They Take a Long View:’ Russian Perceptions of Border Disputes with China,” Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, February 24, 2016.

“Of Talk and Action: Official Statements As Indicators of Moscow’s Ukraine Policy,” Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia (PONARS Eurasia), Workshop, Istanbul, Turkey, February 5, 2016.

“Is Peace Possible in Ukraine?” A roundtable presentation, San Diego World Affairs Council, October 5, 2015.

“Why Nationalist Exclusion and Inclusion Are Asymmetric: Migration Attitudes in Russia, 2005-2013,“ Paper presented at the IX ICCEES World Congress, Makuhari, Japan, 5 August 2015.

“A New Wave of Russian Nationalism? What Really Changed in Public Opinion After Crimea” (co-authored with Henry E. Hale), Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia (PONARS Eurasia), Workshop, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan, June 15, 2015.

“Ukraine, Russia, and the West,” presentation, US Marine Corp education project, Camp Pendleton, CA, February 7, 2015.

“Borderline Strategies: A Game Theoretic Guide to Subverting International Law,” paper presented at the academic workshop of the Program on New Approaches to Research on Security in Eurasia, New York University, Abu Dhabi, UAE, December 9, 2014.

“Blocs, States, and Borders: Explaining Territorial Revisionism in Russian Foreign Policy,” paper presented at the international conference on “Border Power,” Hokkaido University, Slavic Research Center, Sapporo, Japan, December 5, 2014.

“Russia’s Ethnic Minorities: Putin’s Loyal Neo-Imperial "Fifth Column." Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia  (PONARS Eurasia), presented at the annual PONARS Eurasia policy conference, George Washington University, Washington, DC (September 2014).

“Presidential Elections in Ukraine and International Relations,” Espresso TV, academic discussion forum with Prof. Olexiy Haran of Kyiv Mohyla Academy, invited participation, May 30, 2014.

“The Dnieper Curtain: Ukraine, Russia, and the West,” Osher Institute, University of California, San Diego, invited presentation, May 13, 2014.

“Cold War Revisited: Ukraine, Russia, and the West,” San Diego State University, invited presentation, March 27, 2014.

“Parting with ‘Asian Balkans:’ Perceptions of Chinese Migration in the Russian Far East, 2000-2013,” Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia  (PONARS Eurasia), The George Washington University, academic and policy workshop, March 2014

“Patterns of Russian Xenophobia, 2005-2013” U.S. Department of State, invited presentation, March 19, 2014.

“Crisis in Ukraine: Internal and External Perspectives,” Pomona College/Claremont College, Claremont, CA, invited presentation, February 24, 2014.

“Strength Without Kindness: Russia’s Persistent Xenophobia and the State,” Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia (PONARS Eurasia), presentation at “The Future of the EU-Russia Neighborhood,” PONARS Eurasia Workshop, Chisinau, Moldova, December 6-7, 2013.

“Beyond the Polls: Google Queries and Public Protest Volatility in Russia,” Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS) Eurasia Policy Memo No. 278, presented at the annual PONARS Eurasia policy conference, George Washington University, Washington, DC (September 2013).

"WTO and the politics of Russia-Georgia Border Crossings," paper presented at the 12th International Scientific Meeting on Border Regions in Transition (BRIT), Fukuoka, Japan-Busan, Korea, November 13-15, 2012.

“Why Border Settlement Improves Interethnic Relations: China and Russia in the Early 2000s,” paper presented at the International Academic Conference of the International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences, Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 25, 2012.

“Responding to Multilateralism: Russia, EU and South Caucasus,” invited presentation at the conference on security challenges of the European Union, EU Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, April 13-14, 2012.

“The Social and Political Implications of Post-Communist Ethnic Migration: A Comparative Perspective,” Roundtable presentation, International Studies Association 53rd Annual Convention, San Diego, CA, April 1-4, 2012.

“Russia and Its Regions in World Politics,” Roundtable presentation, International Studies Association 53rd Annual Convention, San Diego, CA, April 1-4, 2012

“Border Demarcation, Cross-Border Migration, and Interethnic Hostility in the Russian Far East,” Paper presented at the International Geographic Union (UGI) Political Geography conference, Escola Militar, Santiago, Chile (November 14-18, 2011)

“Itinerant vs. Local Insurgencies: Federal Economic Aid and Anti-Government Violence in the North Caucasus,” 9th Annual International Conference on Politics and International Affairs, Athens, Greece, 20-23 June 2011.

“Border Demarcation, Cross-Border Migration, and Interethnic Hostility in the Russian Far East,” presented at the International Geographic Union political geography conference, Santiago, Chile, 14-18 November 2011.

“Lessons from Comparative Politics: Disciplining Area Studies,” Roundtable presentation, Annual Convention, Association for the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Los Angeles, November 19, 2010.

“Chinese Migration in Russia: Comparative Political Perspectives,” International Seminar on Migration, Slavic Research Center, University of Hokkaido, Sapporo, Japan, July 29, 2010.

“Political Science Perspectives on Religious Extremism in the North Caucasus,” Kabardino-Balkarian State Unversity, Nalchik, Russia, April 28, 2010

“Russian Perceptions of Migration Scale,” presentation, roundtable on Russian nationalism, 2009 Annual Convention, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, November 13, 2009, Boston.

“Threat Framing, Ethnic Demographics, and Xenophobic Violence in Russia,” paper presented at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Toronto, Canada, September 3-6, 2009.  Copyright by the American Political Science Association.

“Extreme Anti-Migrant Hostility in Russia: Societal Security or the Security Dilemma?” paper presented at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Toronto, Canada, September 3-6, 2009.  Copyright by the American Political Science Association.

“Russia, Georgia, and the West,” invited presentation, University of Southern California (April 2009)
“Society and Psychology in Societal Security: Sorting Out Rival Explanations of Anti-Migrant Hostility in Russia,” paper presented at the Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, New York, NY (February 17, 2009)

“Russia’s Interests and Policies in the Arctic,” invited presentation, Ellison Center, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (February 2009)

“Migration and Russia’s Cities: New Landscapes and Impact on Interethnic Relations,” Transnational Migration To New Regional Centers: Policy Challenges, Practice, And The Migrant Experiences,” conference, The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholar, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, June 4, 2008.

“Russian Politics and Arctic Energy,” featured presentation, “Cold Rush: Arctic Energy” symposium, Center for Global Studies, The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, May 23, 2008.

“’Defended Nationhood’ and Ethnoreligious Violence in Russia,” paper presented at the International Studies Association Workshop, Section on Ethnicity, Nationalism and Migration, International Studies Association, Annual Convention, March 25, 2008, San Francisco.

"Russia: Challenges to the Post-Imperial Migration State,” keynote speaker, 3rd  Biennial Empire conference,  “Empire: Migrations, Diasporas, and Networks,” California State University-Stanislaus, March 14, 2008.
“Dining with the Chinese: Social Contact and the Immigration Security Dilemma in Russia,” paper presented at the European Social Science History Association, Lisbon, Portugal, February 27, 2008
”Restrictionist Immigration Sentiment in Eurasia,” The Melikian Center: Russian, Eurasian & East European Studies, Arizona State University, November 9, 2007.

“Asians vs. Caucasians: Inter-Minority Relations in the North Caucasus,” U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, May 29, 2007.

“Fear Has Wide Eyes: Why Are Some Migrant Minorities Viewed as More Numerous than Others in Host Societies?” paper presented at the International Studies Association Annual Convention, Chicago, February 28, 2007.
“Russia, China, and the Immigration Security Dilemma,” National Defense University, Washington, DC, January 10, 2007.

“Migration and Ethnoreligious Hate Crime in Russia: Risk Profiles 2000-2010,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, August 31, 2006.

“Fortress Russia: An overview of the 2005 Russian Federation Survey on Immigration Attitudes and Ethnic Relations,” presentation, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California, San Diego, May 16, 2006.

“Education vs. Xenophobia,” presentation at the conference, "G8 Global Security Agenda: Challenges and Interests--Towards the St.-Petersbourg Summit," Center for Policy Studies (PIR Center), Moscow, Russia, April 21, 2006.

“Immigration Phobia and the Security Dilemma: Russia, Europe, and the United States,” presentation, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland, March 28, 2006.

“Nationhood Vigilantism in the Global Semi-Periphery: Migration and Ethnoreligious Hostility in Russia,” paper presented at the International Studies Association Annual Convention, San Diego, CA March 22, 2006.

“Demographic Change, Migration, and Ethnic Relations in Russia,” Titan Corporation, Maryland, February 22-23, 2006.

“Who Wants “Fortress Russia”? The Results of a Special Survey on Ethnoreligious Hostility in the Russian Federation,” presentation, U.S. Department of State (INR), February, 2006.

“The ‘Number Game:’ Sources of Public Support for Xenophobic Voting in Post-Soviet Russia,” Paper presented at the First Global International Studies Conference, International Studies Association, Istanbul, Turkey, August 26, 2005.

“Ethnic Composition Change in Russia 1994-2003: Implications for Xenophobic Voting” (with Nikolay Petrov), International Studies Association Annual Convention, Honolulu, March 3, 2005.

“The Russian Far East: Demography and Regional Politics as Drivers of Russian Foreign Policy in East Asia,” American Association for the Advanced Slavic Studies, 36th Annual Convention, Boston, December 4, 2004 (invited paper at the State Department sponsored panel).

“Migration Phobia: The Security Dilemma and Anti-Migrant Hostility in the Russian Far East and the European Union,” invited presentation, University of Chicago, the comparative politics (PIPES) seminar series, Wilder House, May 5, 2004.

“Migration as the Security Dilemma; Exaggerated Threats and Anti-Migrant Hostility in Russia’s Borderlands,” International Studies Association, 45th Annual Convention, Montreal, March 17, 2004.

“Through the Lenses of the Security Dilemma: Explaining Anti-Migrant Perceptions in Russia’s Borderlands,” American Association for the Advanced Slavic Studies, 35th Annual Convention, Toronto, November 20, 2003.

“The Security Outlook for the Russian Far East: Challenges, Capabilities and Strategies,” Korean Research Institute for Strategy, a symposium, “The Strategic Balance in Northeast Asia,” Seoul, Korea, July 22, 2003.

“Chinese Migration in Primorskii Krai” Economic Effects and Interethnic Hostility,” 2003 Summer International Symposium, “Slavic Eurasia’s Integration into the World Economy and Community,” July 16-19, 2003, Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo.;;

“Demographic, Political, and Socioeconomic Challenges in Siberia and the Russian Far East,” Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. Department of State, Arlington, VA. March 11, 2003.

“Russian Far East Scenarios,” Strategic Assessments Group conference, April, May, June sessions, 2002.

“Russian Politics at the International-Domestic Frontier,” Roundtable chair and presenter of “Reversed Anarchy: Russia’s Security Challenges in the ‘Near Abroad’ from Yeltsin to Putin,” 43rd Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, New Orleans, March 24, 2002.

Interethnic Hostility and Chinese Migration in Primorskii krai,” presentation at the Multucultural Legacies in Post-Soviet Russia worshop sponsored by the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, March 22, 2002.

“Russian Census 2002: Key Issues in Primorskii krai,” Brown University, Watson Institute, Providence, RI, March 18, 2002.

“Back to Hell: Civilian-Military ‘Audience Costs’ and Russia’s Wars in Chechnya,” Royal Military Academy, Brussels, Belgium, February 16, 2002.

“Regional Demographic and Political Trends in the Russian Far East,” Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, Washington, DC, January 15, 2002.; 

“Russian Muslim Responses to the U.S. War on Terrorism,” roundtable, Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Crystal City/Washington, DC, November 14, 2001.; 

“Economic Perceptions and Interethnic Hostility: Russian Attitudes toward Chinese Migrants in Primorskii krai,” Paper presented at the International Studies Association Convention, Hong Kong, July 28, 2001.

“Insecurity, Economic Perceptions, and Interethnic Hostility: Russian Attitudes toward Chinese Migrants in Primorskii krai,” Paper presented at the Conference on Nationality and Citizenship in Post-Communist Europe, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, July 9-10, 2001.;;

“Identity, Interests, and Security: Cross-Border Migration and Policy Preferences Vis-à-vis China and Chinese Nationals in the Russian Far East,” Paper presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Chicago, February 21, 2001.

“Security Threat, Economic Interest and Political Responses to Chinese Migration in the Russian Far East,” Pacific Basin Research Center, Soka University of America, Laguna Beach, CA, Feb 10, 2001.

“Chinese Migration in the Russian Far East as a Challenge to Sovereignty.” Pacific Basin Research Center, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, July 13, 2000.

“Are Chinese Migrants at Risk in Primorskii krai? Monitoring Interethnic Relations with Opinion and Event Data,” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, New York, April 13, 2000.

“Chinese Migration in Primorskii krai,” Program on Security Implications of Political and Economic Developments in the Russian Far East, National Bureau of Asian Research, Khabarovsk, Russia, October 21, 1999.

“Russia in Asia or Asia in Russia? Economic Incentives, Regional Identity, and Political Separatism in Primorskiy Kray,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association annual meeting in Atlanta, September 2, 1999.

“Russia and China: Managing Regional Relations in the Face of Ethnic Aspirations,” International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), Hsueh Chun-tu Huang Hsing Foundation Lecture Series, June 23, 1999.

“Who Rules Today’s Russia?” roundtable presentation, 1998 National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, September 25, 1998.

“Globalization and Threat Assessment After the Cold War,” Conference at the University of Washington, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, “Two Images of a Future U.S. Foreign Policy,” April 24, 1998.

“Russia’s ‘Cold Peace’ Consensus: Russian Elite Perceptions on Foreign Policy After the Cold War,” 1997 National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, November, 1997.

"Early Warning, Ethnopolitical Conflict, and the United Nations: Assessing Violence in Georgia/Abkhazia," Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, discussion series; U.S. Department of State Title VIII research presentations, October 1997.; 

"Russian Regions in Expanding Europe: The Pskov Connection," presented at the 93rd Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 30, 1997.

“Why is NATO Enlargement a Threat: Russian Government Views,” International Conference, “NATO Expansion and the Baltic States," University of Washington, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, Pacific Northwest Colloquium on International Security, May 6-7, 1997.

"The Race Between Chaos and Self-Determination" (challenges of nationalism to the process of democratic reforms in the Soviet Union), Presented at the International Symposium, "Voices of Democracy," University of Dayton (March, 1990), with Professors Robert Dahl, Lucian Pie, Guillermo O'Donnel. Published in The Civic Arts Review 3 (Spring-Summer 1990): 30-35

Web site

RUSSIA IN ASIA: Chinese Migration in the Maritime Territory: Economic, Political, and Security Implications for the Russian Far East (http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~alexseev/RussiaInAsia/)

MIGRATION AND ETHNIC CONFLICT: Event, opinion, focus groups and interview datasets (18 total) based on the MacArthur, NSF, and NCEEER projects (2004-2007) (http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~alexseev/migration_and_ethnic_conflict/)

Book reviews

Russia Resurrected: Its Power and Purpose in a New World Order, by Kathryn E. Stoner, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021), xix+317 pp., in Acta Slavica Iaponica International and Interdisciplinary Journal of the Study of Russia, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. Published on behalf of the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University, Vol 44., 2023, pp. 167-169.

The Crisis of Russian Democracy:  The Dual State, Factionalism and the Medvedev Succession, by Richard Sakwa. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2011. 418 pp., in Political Science Quarterly 2011.

“The Next Great Game: China and Russia vs. the United States,”by Michael L. Levin, Westport, Praeger Publishers, 2007. 216 pp. $44.95, in Political Science Quarterly, 2008.

Review of Peter J. Piveronus, Jr.’s The Reinvention of Capitalism: Russia’s Alternative to Corporate Concentration and to the Command Economy (Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2006), Russian Review (2007).

The Dynamics of Russian Politics: Putin's Reform of Federal-Regional Relations, Volume II. Ed. Peter Reddaway and Robert W. Orttung. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005. xi, 527 pp., in Slavic Review (2006).

Jones, Stephen F. Socialism in Georgian Colors: The European Road to Social Democracy 1883-1917. Harvard University Press, 2005. 384 pp., in Russia Journal (July 2006) 65 (3): 534.

Brudny, Yitzhak, Jonathan Frankel and Stefani Hoffman, eds. Restructuring Post-Communist Russia. Cambridge University Press, 2004. xiv + 286 pp. $60.00. ISBN 0-521-84027-9, Russia Journal(April 2005) 64 (2): 368-369.

Dmitry P. Gorenburg, Minority Ethnic Mobilization in the Russian Federation, Cambridge University Press, 2003. 297pp., in Slavic Review (Winter 2004): 903-904.

Daniel R. Kempton and Terry D. Clark, eds. Unity or Separation: Center-Periphery Relations in the Former Soviet Union.Westport: Praeger, 2002. 336 pp, in Slavic Review (Spring 2003): 207.

Igor Zevelev, Russia and Its New Diasporas (Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2001), in Political Science Quarterly (Summer 2002) (117) (2): 332-334.

Ilya Prizel, National Identity and Foreign Policy: Nationalism and Leadership in Poland, Russia, and Ukraine. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998, 443 pp., in Canadian American Journal of Slavic Studies(2001).

Daniel S. Treisman. After the Deluge: Regional Crises and Political Consolidation in Russia. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1999. xii, 262 pp., in Slavic Review(Spring 2001): 192.

James R. Harris, The Great Urals: Regionalism and the Evolution of the Soviet System. London and Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999, 235 pp.,in Europe-Asia Studies52 (2000): 959-61.

Graham Smith, Vivien Law, Andrew Wilson, Annette Bohr, and Edward Allworth, eds. Nation-building in the Post-Soviet Borderlands: The Politics of National Identities. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, 293 pp., in Canadian American Journal of Slavic Studies(2000).; 

Courses Taught

Comparative Politics/Post-Soviet Studies:Post-Communist Systems (graduate & undergraduate); Foreign Policy of the Soviet Union; Multi-Ethnic States of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe; Soviet Political System; Russian Politics and Society; Politics of the Developing Nations (graduate); Comparative Politics: Introduction to Research (graduate), Comparative Political Systems, Advanced Comparative Political Systems, Nationalism and Migration

International Relations:International Relations (graduate and undergraduate), War and Security in the Modern World; Global Peace, Internal Wars (general honors)

American Politics: Introduction to American Government; U.S. Foreign Policy

Methods: Qualitative Research Methods (research design and opinion surveys)

Service

Referee:

Conference Organizer:

Quantitative Skills

Descriptive statistics; event-data coding based on the Global Events Data Systems methods and time-series design; media content analysis; t-tests; principal component and factor analysis; multiple regression (OLS and hierarchical OLS); logit; negative binomial regression (Poisson with overdispersion); structural equation modeling; ecological inference; marginal effect plots; repeated measures/multilevel analysis (linear mixed models), sureg. Programs: SPSS, STATA, EzI.

Languages

Russian (native), Ukrainian, English, French

Professional Associations and Societies

American Political Science Association, International Studies Association, American Associaiton for Ukrainian Studies, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Association for the Study of Nationalities; Association for the Sociology of Religion; Association for Border Studies; Oxford Union Society, University of Oxford, England (Life Member).

Citizenship: United States of America

Born: Kiev, Ukraine.