Yuliia Kurnyshova and Andrey Makarychev will present the book they edited: Studying Russia and its Wars. Academic Stocktaking in Times of Insecurity (Brill, 2026). Their presentation will be discussed by Clémentine Fauconnier, lecturer at Université de Haute-Alsace.
Their book discusses how the current war in Ukraine makes the scholarly community reconsider previous assumptions of Russia’s domestic regime and security policies, and think of novel approaches to study Russia-produced insecurities. This edited volume calls for a scholarly audit of the academic legacy that has prevented most researchers and public intellectuals from not only predicting, but also considering as a serious possibility the full-scale war that Russia unleashed against Ukraine.
This next session of the CORUSCANT seminar will take place on Tuesday 17 February, 16:30-18:30 (CET), room Room 0.006, Recherche Nord building, Campus Condorcet (Aubervilliers/Paris), and online.
To attend, please register by filling this form.
Their book discusses how the current war in Ukraine makes the scholarly community reconsider previous assumptions of Russia’s domestic regime and security policies, and think of novel approaches to study Russia-produced insecurities. This edited volume calls for a scholarly audit of the academic legacy that has prevented most researchers and public intellectuals from not only predicting, but also considering as a serious possibility the full-scale war that Russia unleashed against Ukraine.
This next session of the CORUSCANT seminar will take place on Tuesday 17 February, 16:30-18:30 (CET), room Room 0.006, Recherche Nord building, Campus Condorcet (Aubervilliers/Paris), and online.
To attend, please register by filling this form.
Yuliia Kurnyshova is a researcher at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, and an affiliated researcher in the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu. Her current research project explores the political and security implications of Russia's war against Ukraine, focusing on agency, security discourse, and securitization theory. Namely, she examines how the logics of desecuritization, deterrence, and compellence have operated in the liberal international order’s response to Russian aggression.
Andrey Makarychev is Professor of Regional Political Studies at the University of Tartu, Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies. He is the author of Popular Biopolitics and Populism at Europe’s Eastern Margins (Brill, 2022), and co-authored five monographs: Celebrating Borderlands in a Wider Europe: Nations and Identities in Ukraine, Georgia and Estonia (Nomos, 2016), Lotman's Cultural Semiotics and the Political (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017), Critical Biopolitics of the Post-Soviet: from Populations to Nations (Lexington Books, 2020), Practical Biopolitics of COVID-19: Comparing Russian and Indonesian Experiences (Lexington Books, 2023), Biopower in Putin’s Russia: From Taking Care to Taking Lives (CEU Press, 2024), and “Urban Biopolitics: Lives and Spaces in Eastern Europe and the Baltics” (Berghahn Books, forthcoming, 2026).
