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Andreas Umland (* 1967 in Jena ) is a German political scientist, journalist and Eastern Europe expert. He is the founder and editor of the book series "Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society" by ibidem-Verlag (Stuttgart & Hannover) and a research assistant at the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation in Kiev .

Studies and PhD

Andreas Umland studied Russian language and history as well as political science at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig . He graduated from there in 1990 as a state. Certified translator and graduated political scientist from the Free University of Berlin in 1997 . In 1994 he did his M. Phil. In Oxford at St. Cross College, and in Stanford 1997 his AM in Political Science with a focus on transition research as a scholarship holder of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and the German National Academic Foundation (ERP program). In 1998 he received his doctorate in history from the Free University of Berlin with a thesis on the rise of Vladimir Schirinowski in Russian politics. In 2007 he obtained a Ph. D. in Politics from the University of Cambridge (Trinity College) with a thesis on post-Soviet Russian society.

Academic career path

1997–1999 he was a NATO Fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace , Palo Alto , California. 1999–2001 and 2002–2003 he worked as a specialist lecturer for the Robert Bosch Foundation at the University of Yekaterinburg and the National University of the Kyiv Mohyla Academy .

2001–2002 he was a Thyssen Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and a Research Associate at the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University . From January to December 2004 he was a substitute professor for Russian and Eastern European Studies at the University of Oxford ( St Antony's College ).

2005–2008 he was DAAD lecturer at the Institute for International Relations of the National Taras Shevchenko University in Kiev.

From 2008 to 2010 he was an academic adviser at the chair for Central and Eastern European History at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt .

2010–2014 he taught as a DAAD specialist lecturer and lecturer at the Chair of Political Science in the master's program for German and European Studies at the National University “ Kyiv Mohyla Academy ”.

Memberships

Umland was a member of the German-Ukrainian forum and blogger of the online portal of the Ukrainian weekly magazine Korrespondent . He is co-editor of the "Forum for Eastern European Ideas and Contemporary History".

He is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the European Committee of the Ukrainian Parliament .

editor

Umland is the founder and editor of the Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society book series and co-editor of the electronic newsletter The Russian Nationalism Bulletin .

Positions

Umland wrote in the wake of the crisis in Ukraine in 2014 that in the politics of President Vladimir Putin "there are more individual ideas and practices that are reminiscent of the politics of the Third Reich" - in comparison to those of Russia undifferentiated as fascism Politics in Ukraine. In December 2014 he initiated a countercall from 100 Eastern Europe experts “for a reality-based rather than illusion-driven Russia policy”, in which the appeal for other Russia policies was criticized.

In his “Political-Ethical Comments on a Controversy over Putin's Russia”, Bernhard Sutor summarized a controversy between Umland and his critics: Umland and Leonid Luks took the position that “the Putin period represented a wasted opportunity for Russia because it contained the positive elements of democracy and pluralism from the Yeltsin era have been largely eliminated ”. Kai Ehlers , Wladislaw Below , Alexander Rahr , Rudolf Maresch and others contradicted this . The era of Yeltsin is by no means so positive, the Putins are not seen as negatively as with Umland. On the other hand, one should not measure the development in Russia one-sidedly with western-liberal standards, rather one has to consider diverse socio-cultural and historical circumstances. Bernhard Sutor comes to the cautious conclusion that the situation is more gray than black or white: “On the one hand, Russia's development towards a more open, pluralistic-democratic system also depends on the degree of political cleverness with Western politics (EU, NATO, USA ) tries to shape mutual relations in a positive way. ”() On the other hand, Sutor reports, democracy can be realized in very different forms,“ which can take into account the specific conditions in each individual country ”. The surrounding area, like others, does not insist on a specific form of democracy. Only Maresch criticized the western value base in Umland's approach as such by pleading for “political realism” against a “political theology of human rights” and asking whether liberal democracy was not an obsolete model at all.

In a 2016 post for The National Interest , Umland argued that Russia's military provocations against NATO were a propaganda strategy to distract attention from economic weakness and the exploitation of its own people. In 2018 he predicted the medium-term end of the kleptocratic regime and justified this with the capital requirements of the corrupt system and the uncertainty for those involved about the right behavior (demonstrated in the case of Alexei Ulyukayev ). At that point the West must be ready for Russia to turn to the West.

According to Umland, the " Alexander Gorchakov Foundation for Public Democracy" is "little more than a front organization of the Kremlin".

Publications

items

  • Ukraine, the Non-Proliferation Treaty and Us , Ukraine News, Aug 2, 2015; see also own nuclear weapons? Better to keep! Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, August 2, 2015.
  • The West Must Save Ukraine , Zeit Online, July 16, 2014.
  • White spot. The Ukraine in the German Public , Eastern Europe, 6–8 / 2012, 127–133.
  • Russian Nationalism and the Post-Soviet Political Discourse. In: ZAG: anti-racist magazine. Vol. 54 (2009), pp. 10-12.
  • “Neoeurasism” and anti-Americanism as basic components of foreign policy thinking in Russia. In: Russia analyzes. Vol. 174, November 28, 2008, pp. 11-14.
  • Voices from Afar: Cold War II? In: National interest online. January 16, 2008.
  • Post-Soviet Russia between democracy and authoritarianism. In: Eurasian magazine. (2008) issue 11, pp. 14-21.
  • Russian Ultranationalist Party-Politics and "Uncivil Society". In: Magisterium: Politychni studii. (Kyiv Mohyla Academy). Vol. 31 (2008), pp. 30-39.
  • Right-wing extremist engagement beyond political parties: Pre-war Germany and Russia in comparison. In: New Social Movements: Research Journal. Vol. 21 (2008) Issue 4, ISSN  0933-9361 , pp. 63-67.
  • Conceptual and Contextual Problems in the Interpretation of Contemporary Russian Ultranationalism. In: Russian politics and law. Vol. 46 (2008) Issue 4, ISSN  1061-1940 , pp. 6-30.
  • Zhirinovsky's "Last Thrust to the South" and the Definition of Fascism. In: Russian politics and law. Vol. 46 (2008) Issue 4, ISSN  1061-1940 , pp. 31-46.
  • Much Ado About Nothing: The Normalization of Ukrainian Politics and the Parliamentary Crisis of 2008. In: Ukraine-Analyzes. Vol. 43 (2008), pp. 2-3.
  • Ukraine's other anomaly: a parliament without radical right-wing groups. In: Ukraine Analysis. Vol. 41 (2008), pp. 7-10.
  • Guest post on zeit.de April 18, 2014: How Putin tricked the West (The 'Geneva Declaration' implies that Crimea no longer belongs to Ukraine. The West lets Russia do it again)

Books

  • John Andreas Fuchs, Andreas Umland, Jürgen Zarusky (eds.): Building bridges - analyzes and considerations between East and West: Festschrift for Leonid Luks on his 65th birthday. Ibidem-Verlag, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-8382-0353-9 .
  • Andreas Umland (Ed.): The Nature of Russian "Neo-Eurasianism": Approaches to Aleksandr Dugin's Post-Soviet Movement of Radical Anti-Americanism. ME Sharpe, Armonk, NY 2009, OCLC 705648236 . (Russian Politics and Law; 47.1)
  • Andreas Umland (Ed.): Theorizing Post-Soviet Russia's Extreme Right: Comparative Political, Historical and Sociological Approaches. ME Sharpe, Armonk, NY 2008, OCLC 645284519 . (Russian Politics and Law; 46.4)
  • Ingmar Bredies, Andreas Umland, Valentin Yakushik (eds.): Aspects of the Orange Revolution III: The context and dynamics of the 2004 Ukrainian presidential elections. Ibidem-Verlag, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-89821-803-0 . (Soviet and Post-Soviet politics and society; 65)
  • Ingmar Bredies, Andreas Umland, Valentin Yakushik (Eds.): Aspects of the Orange Revolution IV: Foreign assistance and civic action in the 2004 Ukrainian presidential elections. Ibidem-Verlag, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-89821-808-5 . (Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society; 66)
  • Ingmar Bredies, Andreas Umland, Valentin Yakushik (Eds.): Aspects of the Orange Revolution V: Institutional observation reports on the 2004 Ukrainian presidential elections. Ibidem-Verlag, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-89821-809-2 . (Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society; 67)
  • Matthias Bürgel, Andreas Umland (ed.): Humanities and social sciences university teaching in Eastern Europe III: Transformation and stagnation at post-Soviet universities. With a foreword by Michael Daxner. Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-3-631-57135-4 .
  • Roger Griffin, Werner Loh, Andreas Umland (Eds.): Fascism Past and Present, West and East: An International Debate on Concepts and Cases in the Comparative Study of the Extreme Right; with an afterword by Walter Laqueur. Ibidem-Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-89821-674-8 . (Soviet and Post-Soviet politics and society; 35)
  • Thomas Keith, Andreas Umland (ed.): Humanities and social sciences university teaching in Eastern Europe II: German and Austrian impressions of German and history after 1990. with a preface by Gregor Berghorn. Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2006, ISBN 3-631-54711-0 .
  • Andreas Umland (Hrsg.): Humanities and social science university teaching in Eastern Europe I: impressions, experiences and analyzes of German guest lecturers. Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2005, ISBN 3-631-52801-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.ieac.org.ua/en/about/team/item/77-andreas-umland
  2. ↑ Dr. Dr. Andreas Umland ( Memento from December 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Dr. Andreas Umland is a new member of the German-Ukrainian Forum - German-Ukrainian Forum eV ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: du-forum.de , accessed on September 27, 2018. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.du-forum.de
  4. ↑ Flyer invitation to the forum with Dr. Andreas Umland (Kiev) ( Memento from December 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1 MB)
  5. ↑ Andreas Umland: Are the right-wing ministers of the Ukrainian government “fascists”? boell.de, March 28, 2014.
  6. ^ "Counter-appeal" in the Ukraine conflict: Eastern Europe experts see Russia as the aggressor Word of the appeal in Der Tagesspiegel , December 11, 2014.
  7. ↑ Political Realism and Value Judgments: Political-Ethical Comments on a Controversy over Putin's Russia
  8. ↑ Andreas Umland: Russia is bluffing and the West falls for it. German version of July 9, 2016 in the Tagesspiegel
  9. ↑ Andreas Umland: Russia under Putin is less stable than it seems. NZZ, July 5, 2018
  10. ^ Top German politicians at the propaganda summit in Moscow
personal data
SURNAME Surrounding area, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist, journalist and Eastern Europe expert
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Jena