Taras Kuzio Explained

Taras Kuzio
Field:Political science

Taras Kuzio (born 7 April 1958) is a Professor of Political Science at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Kyiv, Ukraine). His area of study is Russian and Ukrainian political, economic and security affairs.[1] [2] [3]

Education

Taras Kuzio is of Ukrainian descent.[4]

He received a BA in economics from the University of Sussex, an MA in Soviet studies from the University of London and holds a doctorate in political science from the University of Birmingham; he was a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University.

Career

In 1986, Kuzio, based in London, began compiling and translating information on current events in Soviet Ukraine and provided this information to the media through the Ukraine Press Agency (UPA) in Great Britain. UPA was a branch of the officially British-registered company Society for Soviet Nationalities Studies, which published the bi-monthly Soviet Nationalities Survey (which had been launched in 1984 and continued until 1991)[5] and monthly Soviet Ukrainian Affairs (1987-89).[5] The Society for Soviet Nationalities Studies was financially supported by the Prolog Research and Publishing Corporation;[5] unbeknownst to Kuzio, the funds originated from the CIA as part of their QRPLUMB Project, although the CIA had no editorial input.[6]

In 1992-93, Kuzio worked as a research fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. From 1993-95, he served as editor of the Ukrainian Business Review and directed the Ukrainian Business Agency. From 1995-98, he was a senior research fellow with the Centre for Russian and Eastern European Studies at the University of Birmingham in England, where he completed his PhD on nation- and state-building in Ukraine. In the second half of the 1990s, he was a senior research fellow at the Council of Advisers to the Ukrainian Parliament.

From 1998-99, he was director of the NATO Information and Documentation Center in Kyiv, Ukraine.[7] [8] He served as a long-term observer for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe during the 1998 and 2002 parliamentary elections in Ukraine, and as a National Democratic Institute observer in the 2004 Ukrainian presidential elections.

In 2004-06, he was a visiting professor in George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs' Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES).[9]

In 2010-11, he was an Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Visiting Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University in Washington D.C.[10]

In 2011-12, he was a visiting fellow at the Slavic Research Center at Hokkaido University in Japan. Subsequently, he was a senior research associate at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta.[7]

His most recent book is Russian Nationalism and the Russian-Ukrainian War (2022), which was published prior to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. This follows two other books on Russia-Ukraine relations: Putin's War Against Ukraine: Revolution, Nationalism and Crime (2017) and Ukraine: Democratisation, Corruption and the New Russian Imperialism (2015), the latter of which surveys modern Ukrainian political history. He is the author and editor of sixteen books, including Open Ukraine. Changing Course towards a European Future From Kuchmagate to Orange Revolution (2013), Democratic Revolution in Ukraine (2011), Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives on Nationalism (2007) and Ukraine-Crimea-Russia: Triangle of Conflict (2007). He has also comparatively researched empire loyalism in Northern Ireland and Donbas.[11] [12]

He is an associate research fellow at the UK Henry Jackson Society thinktank[13] [14] [15] and has contributed to the Atlantic Council,[14] [16] Foreign Affairs,[17] Kyiv Post,[18] New Eastern Europe,[19] and E-International Relations.[20]

Selected publications

Volumes Authored

Volumes Edited

Volumes Co-Authored

Think Tank Monographs

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2021-11-04 . Dr Taras Kuzio - Henry Jackson Society . 2023-08-13 . henryjacksonsociety.org . en-GB.
  2. Web site: Vlamis . Kelsey . Putin may have wanted to restore the Russian Empire, but his power over former Soviet states is waning as his invasion of Ukraine flounders . Business Insider . 8 October 2022 . 3 November 2022.
  3. Web site: Echols . William . Russia 'refrained from attacking Kyiv?' No, It Was Repelled . POLYGRAPH.info . 14 April 2022 . 23 January 2023.
  4. Web site: Russian forces seize Chernobyl nuclear power plant . BBC News . 24 February 2022 . 23 January 2023.
  5. Kuzio . Taras . U.S. support for Ukraine's liberation during the Cold War: A study of Prolog Research and Publishing Corporation . Communist and Post-Communist Studies . University of California Press . 45 . 1/2 . 2012 . 0967-067X . 48609660 . 51–64 . 10.1016/j.postcomstud.2012.02.007 . 25 January 2023.
  6. Web site: cia.gov . 23 January 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170123090539/https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/QRPLUMB%20%20%20VOL.%205%20%20%28DEVELOPMENT%20AND%20PLANS%2C%201989-91%29_0017.pdf . 23 January 2017 . unfit . 25 January 2023.
  7. Web site: Taras Kuzio. Center for Transatlantic Relations . 26 March 2018 . 3 November 2022.
  8. Web site: New Kyiv Information Officer appointed. 5 June 1998. Nato.int. 30 December 2017.
  9. Web site: Lecturers - Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies - The Elliott School of International Affairs - The George Washington University. Gwu.edu. 30 December 2017.
  10. Web site: The Center for Transatlantic Relations at Johns Hopkins University SAIS. Center for Transatlantic Relations. 30 December 2017.
  11. Kuzio . Taras . Empire Loyalism and Nationalism in Ukraine and Ireland . Communist and Post-Communist Studies . University of California Press . 53 . 3 . 1 September 2020 . 0967-067X . 10.1525/cpcs.2020.53.3.88 . 88–106.
  12. News: Crisis throws up four historical parallels between Ireland and Ukraine . The Irish Times . 9 April 2022 . 25 January 2023.
  13. Web site: Taras Kuzio. Clingendael spectator. 3 November 2022.
  14. Web site: Ellyatt . Holly . Putin's invasion of Ukraine is seen as his biggest ever mistake - and it will harm Russia for years to come . CNBC . 24 March 2022 . 23 January 2023.
  15. Web site: Sabbagh . Dan . What would be Russia's military options in Ukraine? . The Guardian . 10 January 2022 . 23 January 2023.
  16. Web site: Ellyatt . Holly . How will Russia's war with Ukraine end? Here are 5 possible outcomes . CNBC . 8 March 2022 . 23 January 2023.
  17. Web site: Taras Kuzio. Foreign Affairs. 13 March 2014 . 3 November 2022.
  18. Web site: Kuzio. Taras. Taras Kuzio, Author at Kyiv Post. Kyiv Post. 16 December 2018 . 3 November 2022.
  19. Web site: Taras Kuzio Archives - A bimonthly news magazine dedicated to Central and Eastern European affairs . New Eastern Europe - A bimonthly news magazine dedicated to Central and Eastern European affairs . 13 July 2022 . 3 November 2022.
  20. Web site: Taras Kuzio – E-International Relations . E-International Relations . 3 November 2022.
  21. http://www.taraskuzio.net/media13_files/30.pdf The Crimea: Europe's Next Flashpoint?

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