On April 20 at 12:15 (Lossi 36-214), the launch of a new book “Eastern Europe and War: A New Kidnapping?” will take place. The event features Dr. Aliaksei Kazharski and the discussion is moderated by Professor Andrey Makarychev. The event will be held in English, and everybody interested in the topic is welcome to attend.
This edited volume focuses on the effects that Russias 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine had on Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). It includes chapters covering fourteen countries situated in different corners of the broader region. Individual contributions shed light on how these CEE countries positioned themselves vis-ą-vis the war and (re)defined their own regional identities and geopolitical belonging. The chapters offer a rich survey of the local discourses and perspectives, grasping the region in its persisting complexity and diversity. For more information about the book, please visit the publisher’s website.
Aliaksei Kazharski is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University and one of the editors of the volume. He received his Ph.D. from Comenius University in Bratislava in 2015 and has held research positions at several European institutions, including in Oslo, Tartu, Vienna, Malmö, and Uppsala. He has previously published 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? 2022, winner of the International Studies Association, Global International Relations Section 2022-2023 Book Award).
Andrey Makarychev is Professor of Regional Political Studies at the University of Tartu Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies and the second editor of the volume. He has authored and co-authored numerous books on biopolitics, populism, and post-Soviet studies, including Popular Biopolitics and Populism at Europe’s Eastern Margins (2022) and Biopower in Putin’s Russia (2024).
The event is co-organised with the UT Centre for East European and Eurasian Studies (CEURUS).
