Aliaksei Kazharski, PhD

Aliaksei Kazharski received his PhD in European Studies and Policies from Comenius University in Bratislava in 2015. He has worked as a researcher and lecturer at Charles University and Comenius University in Bratislava and has likewise acted as a visiting researcher at the universities of Oslo, Tartu, Vienna, Malmö, and Uppsala, the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, and the Polish Academy of Sciences. Since 2019, he has also been a fellow at Visegrád Insight.

Kazharski’s research interests include Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, regionalism, identity in international relations, critical approaches to security, and terrorism studies. He is the author of two monographs: Eurasian Integration and the Russian World: Regionalism as an Identitary Enterprise (CEUPress, 2019) and Central Europe Thirty Years after the Fall of Communism: A Return to the Margin? (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022), the latter being the winner of the 2022/23 Book Award from the Global International Relations Section (GIRS) of the International Studies Association.