doc. Mgr. Aliaksei Kazharski, Ph.D.

Aliaksei Kazharski received his PhD in European Studies and Policies from Comenius University in Bratislava in 2015. He has worked at Charles University in Prague since 2017. He has also been a visiting researcher at the Universities of Oslo, Tartu , Vienna , Malmö, Uppsala, the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna (IWM), and the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. Since 2019 he has also been a fellow at Visegrád Insight. Kazharski’s research interests have included Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, regionalism, identity in international relations, critical approaches to security and terrorism studies. He is the author of two monographs: Eurasian Integration and the Russian World. Regionalism as an Identitary Enterprise (CEUPress 2019) and Central Europe Thirty Years after the Fall of Communism. A Return to the Margin? (Rowman&Littlefield 2022, winner of the International Studies Association, Global International Relations Section 2022-2023 Book Award).

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

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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).
Kazharski A. (2026). Escaping the Past vs. Escaping to the Past. The Old-New Spatiotemporalities of Central and Eastern Europe. Re-Imagining Space and Society in Central and Eastern Europe: New Geographies of Politics, History and Culture (pp. 214-239).
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).