doc. Mgr. Aliaksei Kazharski, Ph.D.

Monographs

• Kazharski A. (2019). Eurasian Integration and the Russian World: Regionalism as an Identitary Enterprise. Central European University Press.
• Kazharski A. (2022). Central Europe Thirty Years after the Fall of Communism. Lexington Books.

Chapters in monographs

• Kazharski A., & Lozka K. (2023). Belarus-Russia relations: Identity as product and factor. Russian Policy toward Belarus after 2020: At a Turning Point? (pp. 11-28).
• Kazharski A., Kulakevich T., & Lozka K. (2023). Belarus-Ukraine relations. Ukraine in Central and Eastern Europe: Kyiv's Foreign Affairs and the International Relations of the Post-Communist Region (pp. 45-62).
• Kazharski A. (2023). Die „Westsplainers“ erklären. „Alles ist teurer als Ukrainisches Leben.“ Texte über Westsplaining und den Krieg (pp. 182-189).
• Kazharski A. (2023). Aliaksei Kazharski on Far-Right Populism in Central and Eastern Europe and Russia. Conversations on Illiberalism. Interviews with 50 scholars (pp. 73-77).
• Kazharski A., & Pierson-Lyzhina E. (2024). "The Lithuanians Have Our Back": Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya's Office and the United Transitional Cabinet in the Face of Fragmented Western Support. The Palgrave Handbook of Non-State Actors in East-West Relations (pp. 473-487).
• Kazharski A. (2026). Towards Decentring Comparisons: Overcoming the Uniqueness Myth in Russian Studies. Studying Russia and its Wars: Academic Stocktaking in Times of Insecurity (pp. 130-150).
• Kazharski A. (2026). Introduction: Writing about Belarus during “Interesting” Times. Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Belarus (pp. 1-6).
• Kazharski A., & Lozka K. (2026). The Impact of Russia's War against Ukraine on Belarus: Geopolitics, Regime Survival, and Societal Responses. Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Belarus (pp. 62-74).
• Kazharski A., Lozka K., & Rudnik A. (2025). Belarus’ Pro-Democracy Movement as a Public Diplomacy Actor: Identities and International Engagement. Disruption and Dissent in Public Diplomacy (pp. 121-140).
• Kazharski A. (2026). The Jagiellonian Moment and Beyond: Identities and Geopolitics in Poland After 2022. “Eastern Europe” and War. A New Kidnapping? (pp. 209-232).
• Kazharski A., & Makarychev A. (2026). Introduction: Kidnapping Europe in the Twenty-first Century. “Eastern Europe” and War. A New Kidnapping? (pp. 9-21).
• Grančayová M., Kazharski A., & Tabosa C. (2025). Religion and social progressivism in Poland and Slovakia: toward (de)securitization?. Religion as Securitization in Central and Eastern Europe (pp. 135-161).
• Grančayová M., & Kazharski A. (2025). ‘Pumpkins Only for the Dictator’: Belarus Protests and the Semiotic Strategies of Gendered Resistance. Language, Gender and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe (pp. 347-365).
• Grančayová M., & Kazharski A. (2025). Religion and Civic Values in Slovakia: A Secular State?. Civic and Uncivic Values in Slovakia: Culture, Media, Gender, and Ethnic Minorities (pp. 79-100).

Articles

• Kazharski A. (2020). Civilizations as Ontological Security?: Stories of the Russian Trauma. Problems of Post-Communism, 67(1), 24-36. UT-WOS link
• Kazharski A. (2019). Frontiers of hatred? A study of right-wing populist strategies in Slovakia. European Politics and Society, 20(4), 393-405.
• Kazharski A. (2019). Two kinds of small? The 'EU core' in Slovak and Czech geopolitical imagination. Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 27(4), 424-438. UT-WOS link
• Kazharski A. (2024). On “Westsplaining,” Realism, and Technologies of the Self: A Foucauldian Reading of the Realist Commentary on Ukraine. Journal of Regional Security, 19(1), 77-96.
• Kazharski A. (2020). An ad hoc Regionalism? The Visegrád Four in the "Post-Liberal" Age. Polity, 52(2), 250-272. UT-WOS link
• Kazharski A., & Makarychev A. (2020). Introduction to the Special Issue. Mezinárodní vztahy, 55(4), 5-10. UT-WOS link
• Kazharski A., & Macalová S. (2020). Democracies: "sovereign" and "illiberal". The Russian-hungarian game of adjectives and its implications for regional security. Journal of Regional Security, 15(2), 235-262.
• Kazharski A., & Kubová M. (2021). Belarus as a liminal space for Russia's ontological security before and after the 2020 protests. New Perspectives, 29(3), 249-271. UT-WOS link
• Kazharski A. (2021). Belarus' new political nation? 2020 anti-authoritarian protests as identity building. New Perspectives, 29(1), 69-79. UT-WOS link
• Kazharski A. (2021). Neonationalism and the metropolitan "coffee house" in Central Europe. Political Geography, 89(August), 1-3. UT-WOS link
• Kazharski A., & Makarychev A. (2021). Belarus, Russia, and the escape from geopolitics. Political Geography, 89(August), 1-3. UT-WOS link
• Kazharski A., & Makarychev A. (2021). Russia's Vaccine Diplomacy in Central Europe: Between a Political Campaign and a Business Project. Mezinárodní vztahy, 56(4), 131-146. UT-WOS link
• Kazharski A. (2023). Do ostriches live in Central Europe?: Normalizing the Russian attack on Ukraine in the Visegrád Four. Journal of Regional Security, 18(1), 39-46.
• Kazharski A. (2023). An Authoritarian Spectacle: Visual Biopolitics and the Dramaturgy of the Poland-Belarus Border Migration Crisis. Visual Anthropology, 36(4), 373-396. UT-WOS link
• Kazharski A. (2024). "To Whom the Sirens Wail." Poland's Post-2022 Geopolitical Debates on Central and "Eastern Europe". Alternatives, 49(2), 100-114. UT-WOS link
• Kazharski A. (2023). Central Europe: Racialized or Elusive?. Czech Journal of International Relations, 58(3), 162-170.
• Kazharski A., & Makarychev A. (2024). "Eastern Europe" and War. Introduction to the Special Issue. Alternatives, 49(2), 47-51. UT-WOS link
• Kazharski A. (2025). Alicja Curanović. The Sense of Mission in Russian Foreign Policy: Destined for Greatness! London: Routledge & CRC Press, 248 p. Alternatives, 20(2), 529-531. UT-WOS link
• Kazharski A. (2024). The Toxic Spell of ‘Imperial knowledge’ and Challenges of Decolonization. Warsaw East European Review, XIII(1), 15-17.
• Kazharski A. (2024). Rastlumačyc "uestsplejnerau": Ci moža zachodni dasledčyk byc ekspertam pa Centralna-Uschodnjaj Europe?. Topos, 53(2), 145-155.
• Kazharski A. (2025). History meets the 'mafia state'? Hungary and the (de)securitisation of built cultural heritage in Slovakia. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 31(1), 36-51. UT-WOS link
• Kazharski A., & Makarychev A. (2025). Critical heritage studies and post-imperial insecurities in central and Baltic Europe. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 31(1), 1-3. UT-WOS link
• Kazharski A. (2025). The politics of regional cooperation and the impact on the European Union. A study of Nordic Cooperation and the Visegrad Group. Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 33(1), 309-310. UT-WOS link
• Kazharski A. (2025). On the nexūs between populism and geopolitical rhetorics: Evidence from the Visegrád Four. Intersections, 11(3), 20-38. UT-WOS link
• Kazharski A., & Monsportová D. (2026). The effects of Ukraine’s communication strategy in the Visegrad Four and the “Global South.” Understanding the target audiences and limits. Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, 34(1), 213-227.
• Grancayova M., & Kazharski A. (2020). 'The Slovakebab': Anti-Islam Agenda in Slovak Parliamentary Elections and Beyond. Politologický časopis, 27(3), 259-277. UT-WOS link
• Golianová V., & Kazharski A. (2020). 'The Unsolid' Pro-Kremlin Narratives in Slovak Cultural and Educational Institutions. RUSI Journal, 165(4), 10-21. UT-WOS link
• Grančayová M., & Kazharski A. (2023). Authoritarian Hegemonic Masculinities and Gendered Rhetorics of the Protest: 2020 Belarus Awakening and the Arab Spring in Egypt. Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 56(3), 47-71. UT-WOS link
• Čanji D., & Kazharski A. (2023). When the "subaltern empire" speaks. On recognition, Eurasian integration, and the Russo-Georgian war. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 64(5), 561-588. UT-WOS link

Contributions in the conference proceedings

Theories of International Relations (for Security Studies); Terrorism and Counterterrorism; Theories of International Relations; International Politics in Central and Eastern Europe: Critical Approaches

Regionalism and regional integration, regional identities
Critical geopolitics/popular geopolitics
Theories of international relations
Identity in international relations
Illiberalism
Visegrád Four/"Central Europe"
Belarus
Nationalism and national identities in Central and Eastern Europe
International relations in the post-Soviet space
Russia
Terrorism studies

Contested Heritage. A multilevel analysis of the securitization of heritage and its challenges for EU and UN actorness (COHERE)

Regionalismus a regionální integrace, regionální identity
Kritická geopolitika/populární geopolitika
Teorie mezinárodních vztahů
Identita v mezinárodních vztazích
Iliberalismus
Visegrádská čtyřka/"Střední Evropa"
Bělorusko
Nacionalismus a národní identity ve střední a východní Evropě
Mezinárodní vztahy v postsovětském prostoru
Rusko
Terorismus a boj proti terorismu

Regionalism and regional integration, critical geopolitics, IR theories, identities an dnationalism, Visegrád Four