The following selection of resources mixes public scholarship with recent research from APSA's flagship journals to showcase how scholars are investigating the current Russo-Ukraine War from multiple disciplinary perspectives. It highlights new research in international relations, state development, conflict and war, civil-military relations, human rights, technology, nationalism, identity, and sovereignty. This collection was put together March 2022 at the immediate aftermath of Russia's invasion. We are currently in the process of soliciting and curating new political science resources documenting the ongoing invasion's six months. We welcome submissions and recommendations of all types - teaching materials, public scholarship, curated reading lists, and new research are particularly welcome. Please send all inquires to Educate@apsanet.org
Public Scholarship
PS: Political Science & Politics
Hitting Two Birds with One Stone: How Russian Countersanctions Intertwined Political and Economic Goal / Paulina Pospieszna, Joanna Skrzypczyńska, Beata Stępień / 2019
The Rise of Powerful Executives: Comparing the Ukrainian and Russian Legislatures / Irina Khmelko, Oleksii Bruslyk / 2018
Perspectives on Politics
Understanding Putin’s Russia and the Struggle over Ukraine / Peter Rutland / 2021
The Power and Limits of Russia’s Strategic Narrative in Ukraine: The Role of Linkage / Joanna Szostek / 2017
Affect and Autocracy: Emotions and Attitudes in Russia after Crimea /Samuel A. Greene, Graeme Robertson / 2020
Fast-Tracked or Boxed In? Informal Politics, Gender, and Women’s Representation in Putin’s Russia / Janet Elise Johnson / 2016
Understanding the Global Patrimonial Wave / Stephen E. Hanson, Jeffrey S. Kopstein / 2021
The Evolution of Regimes: What Can Twenty-Five Years of Post-Soviet Change Teach Us? / Stephen E. Hanson / 2017
Making Embedded Knowledge Transparent: How the V-Dem Dataset Opens New Vistas in Civil Society Research / Michael Bernhard, Dong-Joon Jung, Eitan Tzelgov, Michael Coppedge, Staffan I. Lindberg / 2017
The Escape from Institution-Building in a Globalized World: Lessons from Russia / Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, Karen Dawisha / 2017
American Political Science Review
The Two-Pronged Middle Class: The Old Bourgeoisie, New State-Engineered Middle Class and Democratic Development / Tomila V. Lankina, Alexander Libman / 2021
Why Botter: How Pro-Government Bots Fight Opposition in Russia / Denis Stukal, Sergey Sanovich, Richard Bonneau, Joshua A. Tucker / 2022
Elite Defection under Autocracy: Evidence from Russia / Ora John Reuter, David Szakonyi / 2019
Who Defects? Unpacking a Defection Cascade from Russia's Dominant Party 2008–12 / Henry E. Hale, Timothy J. Colton / 2017