CfA: „Challenges of Data Collection, Re-use, and Analysis: Public Opinion, Political Debates, and Protests in the Context of the Russo-Ukrainian War"
The Research Centre for East European Studies (FSO), Bremen, 25-27.08.2025
The Research Centre for East European Studies (FSO), Bremen, 25-27.08.2025
Book presentation/discussion
7:00 pm, Theater Bremen, Foyer Großes Haus
“White But Not Quite": Does anti-eastern European racism exist?
with author Ivan Kalmar
Introduction: Klaas Anders, Moderation: Anke Hilbrenner
7:00 pm, Theater Bremen, Foyer Großes Haus
“White But Not Quite": Does anti-eastern European racism exist?
with author Ivan Kalmar
Introduction: Klaas Anders, Moderation: Anke Hilbrenner
Call for Papers
Coming to the Surface or Going Underground? Art Practices, Actors, and Lifestyles in the Soviet Union of the 1950s-1970s
The Research Centre for East European Studies (FSO), Bremen, November 13-14, 2025
Coming to the Surface or Going Underground? Art Practices, Actors, and Lifestyles in the Soviet Union of the 1950s-1970s
The Research Centre for East European Studies (FSO), Bremen, November 13-14, 2025
Political reforms in Ukraine.
Political Regime, Political Decision-Making and political elites
Research project coordinated by Prof. Heiko PleinesThis project analyses the current political reform process in Ukraine, focusing on the development of the political regime, the organisation of political decision-making (concerning a.o. corruption and the role of oligarchs) as well as the composition of political elites.
The project partly draws on earlier research projects:
Political Influence of Oligarchs in Ukraine
Media control as source of political power. The role of oligarchs in electoral authoritarian regimes
Comparing Protest Actions in Soviet and post-Soviet spaces
Publications:
Pleines, Heiko (2025): Die Qualität der ukrainischen Demokratie 1991 bis 2023. Institutionen und politische Kultur, in: Dobbins, Michael (ed.):Das politische System der Ukraine. Institutionen, Akteure, Politikfelder. Springer VS, Wiesbaden (in prep.)
Pleines, Heiko (2025): Ukraine: Instabiles Regierungssystem und umkämpfte Demokratisierung, in: Priebus, Sonja / Beichelt, Timm (Hg.): Die politischen Systeme im östlichen Europa. Institutionen, Akteure, Prozesse. Springer VS Wiesbaden, 451-469
Pleines, Heiko (2025): Zwischen Autokratie und Demokratie, in: Worschech, Susann (Hg.): Freiheitsschauplatz – Ein Gesellschaftsportrait der Ukraine. Baden-Baden: Nomos 31-46 (in prep.)
Pleines, Heiko / Klein, Eduard (2025): Wirklich ein „Diktator ohne Wahlen“? Zur Legitimität und Popularität des ukrainischen Präsidenten Wolodymyr Selenskyj, in: Ukraine-Analysen 311, 30-31
Chorna, Oksana / Pleines, Heiko (2024): Ukraine’s Political Elites: Composition and Changes from 1992 to 2023, in: Ukrainian Analytical Digest 7, 13-21
Chorna, Oksana / Pleines, Heiko (2023): Die politischen Eliten der Ukraine im Wandel, in: Ukraine-Analysen 285, 4-9
Pleines, Heiko (2023): Zwischen Kriegsrecht und Reformen. Die innenpolitische Entwicklung der Ukraine, in: Ukraine-Analysen 285, 2-4
Pleines, Heiko (2023): Internationale Unterstützung für den Wiederaufbau in der Ukraine: Die Rolle von Korruption und »Good Governance«, in: ifo Schnelldienst 76, 22-24
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