Andreas Umland | |
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Born | 1967 (age 56–57) |
Nationality | German |
Alma mater | Leipzig University Freie Universität Berlin University of Cambridge |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Political science |
Institutions | National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv Ural State University Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt |
Andreas Umland (born 1967) is a German political scientist studying contemporary Russian and Ukrainian history as well as regime transitions. He has published on the post-Soviet extreme right, municipal decentralization, European fascism, post-communist higher education, East European geopolitics, Ukrainian and Russian nationalism, the Donbas and Crimea conflicts, as well as the neighborhood and enlargement policies of the European Union. He is a Senior Expert at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future in Kyiv as well as a research fellow at the Swedish Institute for International Affairs in Stockholm.[1] He lives in Kyiv, and teaches as an Associate Professor of Politics at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. In 2005–2014, he was involved in the creation of a Master's program in German and European Studies administered jointly by the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and Jena University.[2]