Articles by Andrey Makarychev

June 8, 2022

Comparing EKRE's strategy towards Russophone Estonians with Italy's Lega

Andrey Makarychev

Stefano Braghiroli and Andrey Makarychev chart a change in the Estonian National Conservative Party (EKRE). Lately, it has appealed for the first time to Russian-speaking minorities – an attempt at a similar process to the League’s transformation into a national party in Italy. Unlike the Lega, though, they face the obstacle of the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Andrey Makarychev

Professor of Regional Political Studies, Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu

Andrey teaches courses on Globalization, Political Systems in post-Soviet Space, EU-Russia Relations, Regional Integration in post-Soviet Space, Visual Politics, and The Essentials of Biopolitics.

He is the author of Popular Biopolitics and Populism at Europe’s Eastern Margins (Brill, 2022), and has co-authored three monographs: Celebrating Borderlands in a Wider Europe: Nations and Identities in Ukraine, Georgia and Estonia (Nomos, 2016), Lotman's Cultural Semiotics and the Political (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017), and Critical Biopolitics of the Post-Soviet: from Populations to Nations (Lexington Books, 2020).

He has co-edited a number of academic volumes: Mega Events in post-Soviet Eurasia: Shifting Borderlines of Inclusion and Exclusion (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), Vocabularies of International Relations after the Crisis in Ukraine (Routledge, 2017); Borders in the Baltic Sea Region: Suturing the Ruptures (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).

Andrey's articles have been published in such academic journals as Geopolitics, Problems of Post-Communism, East European Politics and Societies, European Urban and Regional Studies, among others.

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