Taras Kuzio
Dr. Taras Kuzio (born 1958 in Halifax, West Yorkshire, UK) is an academic and expert in Ukrainian political, economic and security affairs. He has British citizenship, but is based in Toronto, Canada.[1]
Education
Taras Kuzio 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. He is the most prolific author in the West on contemporary Ukrainian politics and his work is influential within the academic community, and among policymakers and in the media.
Career
In 1986, Kuzio 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 registered Society for Soviet Nationalities Studies which published the bi-monthly "Soviet Nationalities Survey" and monthly "Soviet Ukrainian Affairs". In 1992-1993, Taras Kuzio worked as a research fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. From 1993-1995 he served as editor of the Ukrainian Business Review and directed the Ukrainian Business Agency. From 1995-1998 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 1998-1999 he was director of the NATO Information and Documentation Center in Kyiv, Ukraine.[2] He served as a long-term observer for the Organisation for Security and Cooperation 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 2004-2006 he was a Visiting Professor in George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs' Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES).[3] In 2010-2011, 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.[4] In 2011-2012 he was a visiting fellow at the Slavic Research Center at Hokkaido University in Japan. Currently he is a Senior Research Associate at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta where he is writing a book on the Ukraine-Russia crisis and Donbas conflict.
Taras Kuzio has been a consultant to different branches of the US government in the fields of democracy, governance and human rights in Ukraine. He has prepared expert testimony in political asylum cases for lawyers and consultancy on oligarchs, corporate raiding and due diligence for business clients.
His most recent book Ukraine: Democratisation, Corruption and the New Russian Imperialism (June 2015) surveys modern Ukrainian political history. He is the author and editor of fifteen books, including Open Ukraine. Changing Course towards a European Future Democratic Revolution in Ukraine (2011), From Kuchmagate to Orange Revolution (2009), Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives on Nationalism (2007) and Ukraine-Crimea-Russia: Triangle of Conflict (2007).
Dr. Kuzio has guest edited 12 special issues of academic journals, including Problems of Post-Communism, East European Politics and Society, Nationalities Papers, Journal of Ukrainian Studies and Communist and Post-Communist Studies, including a March 2016 edition on Russian authoritarianism and nationalism. He has authored over 100 think tank monographs, including a 2010 monograph on Russia and the Crimea, book chapters, and scholarly articles on post-communist, Ukrainian and Russian politics and nationalism.
As a public intellectual he has been frequent interviewed by television, radio and print media, including during the Euromaidan, Russian invasion of the Crimea and the Donbas conflict. Over a 3-decade journalistic career he has authored 1, 400 articles on post-communist, Ukrainian and Russian politics for Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Al Jazeera, Financial Times, United Press International and specialist publications published by Jane’s Information Group and Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty.
Selected publications
Volumes Authored
- Ukraine: Democratisation, Corruption and the New Russian Imperialism (Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2015), pp. 611.
- Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives on Nationalism: New Directions in Cross-Cultural and Post-Communist Studies. Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society series 71 (Hannover: Ibidem-Verlag, 2007), pp. 423.
- Ukraine-Crimea-Russia: Triangle of Conflict, Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society series (Hannover: Ibidem-Verlag, 2007), pp. 223.
- Ukraine. Perestroika to Independence, Second Edition (London: Macmillan, New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994 and 2000), pp. 273.
- Ukraine. State and Nation Building. Routledge Studies of Societies in Transition 9 (London and New York: Routledge, 1998), pp. 298.
- Ukraine under Kuchma: Political Reform, Economic Transformation and Security Policy in Independent Ukraine (London: Macmillan and New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997), pp. 281.
- Ukrainian Security Policy. Washington Paper 167 (Washington DC: The Center for Strategic & International Studies and Praeger, 1995), pp. 168.
Volumes Co-Authored
- (with Paul D’Anieri and Robert Krawchuk) Politics and Society in Ukraine. Westview Series on the Post-Soviet Republics (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999), pp. 332.
Volumes Edited
- Democratic Revolution in Ukraine: From Kuchmagate to Orange Revolution (Oxford: Routledge, 2009), pp. 190.
- Aspect of the Orange Revolution VI: Post-Communist Democratic Revolutions in Comparative Perspective. Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society series, Vol. 68 (Hannover: Ibidem-Verlag, 2007), pp. 211.
- Contemporary Ukraine: Dynamics of Post-Soviet Transformation (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1998), pp. 291.
Volumes Co-Edited
- (with Daniel Hamilton) Open Ukraine. Changing Course towards a European Future (Washington DC: Center for Transatlantic Relations, Johns Hopkins University-SAIS, 2011), pp. 151.
- (with Paul D’Anieri) Aspect of the Orange Revolution I: Democratization and Elections in Post-Communist Ukraine. Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society series 63 (Hannover: Ibidem-Verlag, 2008), pp. 231.
- (with Paul D’Anieri) Dilemmas of State-Led Nation Building in Ukraine (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2002), pp. 214.
- (with Jennifer Moroney and Mikhail Molchanov) Ukrainian Foreign and Security Policy. Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2002), pp. 298.
- (with Paul D’Anieri and Robert Krawchuk) State and Institution Building in Ukraine (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999), pp. 351.
Think Tank Monographs
- The Crimea: Europe’s Next Flashpoint? (Washington DC: The Jamestown Foundation, November 2010), pp. 38.
- EU and Ukraine: a turning point in 2004? ISS-EU Occasional Paper (Paris: Institute for Security Studies-EU, December 2003), pp. 36.
- Ukraine. Back From the Brink, European Security Study 23 (London: Institute for European Defence and Security Studies, 1995), pp. 39.
- Russia-Crimea-Ukraine. Triangle of Conflict, Conflict Studies 267 (London: Research Institute for the Study of Conflict and terrorism, 1994), pp. 35.
- Ukraine. The Unfinished Revolution. European Security Study 16 (London: Institute for European Defence and Security Studies, 1992), pp. 41.
- Dissent in Ukraine under Gorbachev (A Collection of samizdat documents) (London: Ukrainian Press Agency, 1989), pp. 53.
Guest Editor, Academic Periodicals
- 2016 (March) Special issue of Communist and Post-Communist Studies ‘Between Nationalism, Authoritarianism, and Fascism in Russia: Exploring Vladimir Putin’s Regime.’
- 2014 (July–September)Special double issue of Communist and Post-Communist Studies on ‘Revaluating democratic revolutions, Nationalism and organized crime in Ukraine from a comparative perspective,’ pp. 40.
- 2012 (July–December) Special double issue of Communist and Post-Communist Studies on ‘Ukraine as an Immobile State’ within ‘Disintegration of the Soviet Union and democracy development: Twenty Years Later. Assessment. Quo Vadis?’, pp.46.
- 2011 (February) Special issue of East European Politics and Society on ‘The 2010 Presidential Elections’, pp.111.
- 2011 (January) Special issue of Nationalities Papers on ‘The Scholar, Historian, Public Advocate. The Contributions of Paul Robert Magocsi to Our Understanding of Ukraine and Central Europe’, pp.40.
- 2008 (December) Special issue of Communist and Post-Communist Studies on ‘Communist Successor Parties in Central-Eastern Europe and Eurasia’, pp.164.
- 2007 (March) Special issue of The Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics on ‘Kuchmagate Crisis to Orange Revolution: Civil Society, Elections and Democratisation in Ukraine’, pp.179.
- 2006 (September) Special issue of Communist and Post-Communist Studies on ‘Democratic Revolutions in Post-Communist States’, pp.146.
- 2005 (September-October) Special issue of Problems of Post-Communism on ‘A Decade of Leonid Kuchma in Ukraine’, pp.91.
- 2005 (June) Special issue of Communist and Post-Communist Studies on ‘Regime Politics and Democratisation in Ukraine’, pp.161.
- 2001 (Summer-winter) Special issue of the Journal of Ukrainian Studies on ‘A Decade of Ukrainian Independence’, pp. 392.
References
- ↑ "Taras Kuzio". Kyiv Post. Kyiv Post. July 24, 2009. Archived from the original on June 13, 2011. Retrieved 2009-08-19.
- ↑ New Kyiv Information Officer appointed, June 5, 1998
- ↑ Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Elliott School of International Affairs
- ↑ Kuzio at the Center for Transatlantic Relations of Johns Hopkins University
External links
- Taras Kuzio personal website
- Short biography on NATO website
- Biography on website of the German Marshal Fund of the United States
- Biography on website of the Center for Transatlantic Relations of Johns Hopkins University
- Articles of Taras Kuzio in Kyiv Post
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