Fung Public Lecture | Post-Soviet Imperial Strategies and Modern Eurasia: Contemporary Transformations and Perceptions

Anastassia Obydenkova

Affiliated Professor, Barcelona School of Economics

Institute for Economic Analysis of the Spanish National Research Council (IAE-CSIC)

<sup>Anastassia Obydenkova is a Research Scientist at the Institute for Economic Analysis of the Spanish National Research Council (IAE-CSIC) and an affiliated Professor at the Barcelona School of Economics. She holds a PhD in Political and Social Science from the European University Institute in Florence (Italy) and an MA from the Central European University (Budapest-Vienna). She held multiple teaching and research appointments around the world, at Harvard University, Zurich University (Switzerland), Uppsala University (Sweden), Carleton University (Canada), Princeton University, and MacMillan Center at Yale University, among others. 



Dr. Obydenkova's expertise is in comparative politics and international relations with a focus on geopolitics, regional international organizations, environmental politics and sustainable development, regionalism, democratization, historical legacies, and post-Communism, with area-focus on Post-Communist Europe, Eurasia and China. Her work on these topics had been published in such journals as European Journal of Political Research, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, World Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Post-Soviet Affairs, Review of International Organizations, Intelligence, Environmental Research, Democratization, and Journal of Democracy, etc. She is a (co-) author and editor of 12 books and special issues, with the most recent books published by Oxford University Press (2019), Routledge (2015; 2023; 2024), and Cambridge University Press (2021). She welcomes MA and PhD students working on related research topics. Her complete list of publications can be found here.</sup>