Taras Kuzio

Taras Kuzio (* 1958 in Halifax (West Yorkshire) , Great Britain) is a Ukrainian-British political scientist who specializes in Ukrainian politics. He currently lives in Toronto, Canada. He has worked in the UK, Ukraine, USA, Japan and Canada.

Life

Taras Kuzio received a BA in Economics from the University of Sussex and an MA in Soviet Studies from the University of London . He received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Birmingham and was then a Fellow at Yale University .

He then represented the Ukrainian Press Agency in Great Britain. In 1992/93 he worked as a fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies . From 1993 to 1995 he was editor of the “Ukrainian Business Review” and headed the “Ukrainian Business Agency”. From 1995 to 1998 he worked at the Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies at the University of Birmingham. In 1996 he worked as a scientific advisor for the Ukrainian Parliament .

In June 1998 he was appointed director of the NATO Information and Documentation Center in Kiev . For the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe he was an observer in the parliamentary elections in 1998 and 2002 and for the US organization National Democratic Institute in the presidential election in Ukraine in 2004 .

From 2004 to 2006 he was a visiting professor at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES) of the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University . He was also a Visiting Fellow of the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation at the Center for Transatlantic Relations, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University , in Washington DC

Kuzio works for various think tanks , writes for the Eurasian Daily Monitor of the Jamestown Foundation , for Oxford Analytica and Jane's Information Group and has lectured at the United States Congress .

Fonts (selection)

• Ukraine - Crimea - Russia. Triangle of conflict . Ibidem-Verlag, Stuttgart 2007 (1994)
• with Andrew Wilson: Ukraine. Perestroika to independence. St. Martin's Press, New York 1994
• Ukrainian security policy . Praeger, Westport, Conn. 1995
• Ukraine under Kuchma. Political reform, economic transformation and security policy in independent Ukraine. Macmillan, Basingstoke 1997, ISBN 0-333-65414-5 , ISBN 0-312-17625-2
• Contemporary Ukraine. Dynamics of post-Soviet transformation . ME Sharpe, Armonk, NY 1998
• Taras Kuzio, Robert Kravchuk, Paul J. D'Anieri: Politics & Society in Ukraine . Westview PR, 1999, ISBN 9780813335384
• Jennifer DP Moroney, Taras Kuzio and Mikhail Molchanov: Ukrainian foreign and security policy. Theoretical and comparative perspectives . Praeger, Westport, Conn. 2002
• with Paul J. D'Anieri: Dilemmas of state-led nation building in Ukraine . Praeger, Westport, Conn. 2002
• (Ed.): Theoretical and comparative perspectives on nationalism. New directions in cross-cultural and post-communist studies . With a foreword by Paul Robert Magocsi. Ibidem-Verlag, Stuttgart 2007
• (Ed.): Post-communist democratic revolutions in comparative perspective . Ibidem-Verlag, Stuttgart 2007
• Comparative Perspectives on Communist Successor Parties in Central-Eastern Europe and Eurasia , first in: Communist and post-communist studies , 2008, pp. 397–419; in: Cas Mudde (Ed.): Political extremism. Vol. 4. Left-Wing extremism . Los Angeles: Sage 2014 pp. 125–149
• Andreas Umland (Ed.): Taras Kuzio: Ukraine - Crimea - Russia, Triangle of Conflict . Brookings Institution Press, 2007, ISBN 9783898217613
• Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives on Nationalism. Brookings Institution Press, 2008, Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society (SPPS) Volume 71, ISBN 9783898218153
• Democratic revolution in Ukraine. From Kuchmagate to Orange Revolution . Routledge, London and New York 2009
• The Crimea. Europe's Next Flashpoint? Brookings Institution Press, 2011, ISBN 9780983084204
• with Daniel Hamilton (Ed.): Open Ukraine. Changing course towards a European future . Center for Transatlantic Relations, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC 2011

Web links

• Literature by and about Taras Kuzio in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Taras Kuzio in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Taras Kuzio website
• Taras Kuzio , short biography at NATO
• Taras Kuzio , biography at the German Marshal Fund of the United States
• Taras Kuzio , biography at the Center for Transatlantic Relations of Johns Hopkins University

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of contributions from 2008 and 2009 . In: Kyiv Post . Kyiv Post . July 24, 2009. Archived from the original on June 13, 2011. Retrieved on August 19, 2009.
2. ^ ^{A b} New Kyiv Information Officer appointed, June 5, 1998
3. ^ Kuzio , at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at Johns Hopkins University
4. ↑ Taras Kuzio ( Memento of the original of September 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , List of Articles Published by the Jamestown Foundation (updated) 
5. ↑ Kuzio's web site