Dr. Aliaksei Kazharski 

Aliaksei Kazharski received his PhD in European Studies and Policies from Comenius University in Bratislava in 2015. He has subsequently worked as a researcher and lecturer at Comenius University in Bratislava and Charles University in Prague. He has been a visiting researcher at the Universities of Oslo (Norway), Tartu (Estonia), Vienna (Austria), Malmö (Sweden), Uppsala (Sweden), the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna (IWM), and the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. In 2022, he was elected to the Executive Council of the Central and East European International Studies Association (CEEISA).  He has also been a contributing fellow at Visegrád Insight and GLOBSEC. Kazharski’s research interests have included Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, regionalism, identity in international relations, critical approaches to security and terrorism studies. His second monograph, Central Europe Thirty Years after the Fall of Communism. A Return to the Margin? (Rowman&Littlefield 2022), won the International Studies Association, Global International Relations Section 2022-2023 Book Award. 

Selected publications:  

Books

Kazharski, Aliaksei. Central Europe Thirty Years after the Fall of Communism. 1 vyd. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2022. 226 s. ISBN 978-1-4985-9961-0.

Kazharski, Aliaksei. Eurasian Integration and the Russian World: Regionalism as an Identitary Enterprise. Budapest & New York: Central European University Press, 2019. 208 s. ISBN 978-963-386-285-8.

Journal articles 

Kazharski, Aliaksei. 2024. History meets the 'mafia state'? Hungary and the (de)securitisation of built cultural heritage in Slovakia. International Journal of Heritage Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2024.2363796.

Kazharski, Aliaksei. 2024. On "Westsplaining," realism, and technologies of the Self: A Foucauldian reading of the realist commentary on Ukraine. Journal of Regional Security. https://doi.org/10.5937/jrs19-48501

Kazharski, Aliaksei. 2024.“To whom the sirens wail.” Poland’s post-2022 geopolitical debates on Central and Eastern Europe. Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 49(2). DOI: 10.1177/03043754231193612 

Kazharski, Aliaksei. 2023. Do ostriches live in Central Europe? Normalizing the Russian attack on Ukraine in the Visegrád Four. Journal of Regional Security. DOI: 10.5937/jrs18-43201

Kazharski, Aliaksei. 2023. An Authoritarian Spectacle: Visual Biopolitics and the Dramaturgy of the Poland-Belarus Border Migration Crisis. Visual Anthropology, 36(4): 373-396, DOI: 10.1080/08949468.2023.2207452.

Čanji, Danijela and Aliaksei Kazharski. 2023. When the “subaltern empire” speaks. On recognition, Eurasian integration, and the Russo-Georgian war. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 64(5): 561-588. https://doi.org/10.1080/15387216.2022.2040375. 

Grančayová, Michaela and Aliaksei Kazharski. 2022. Authoritarian hegemonic masculinities and gendered rhetorics of the protest: 2020 Belarus Awakening and the Arab Spring in Egypt. Communist and Post-Communist Studies. https://doi.org/10.1525/cpcs.2022.1713752. 

Kazharski, Aliaksei and Andrey Makarychev. 2022 From the Bronze Soldier to the “Bloody Marshal”: Monument Wars and Russia's Aesthetic Vulnerability in Estonia and the Czech Republic. East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures, 36(4): 1151–1176. https://doi.org/10.1177/08883254211043856 

Kazharski, Aliaksei and Andrey Makarychev. 2021. Russia’s vaccine diplomacy in Central Europe: Between a political campaign and a business project. Czech Journal of International Relations, 56(4), https://doi.org/10.32422/mv-cjir.1820.

Kazharski, Aliaksei and Monika Kubová. 2021. Belarus as a liminal space for Russia's ontological security before and after the 2020 protests. New Perspectives, 29(3): 249-271. https://doi.org/10.1177/2336825X211032900.

Kazharski Aliaksei. 2021. Belarus’ New Political nation? 2020 anti-authoritarian protests as identity building. New Perspectives, 29 (1): 69-79 https://doi.org/10.1177/2336825X20984340. 

Kazharski, Aliaksei. 2021. Neonationalism and the metropolitan “coffee house” in Central Europe. Political Geography. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102432

Kazharski, Aliaksei & Andrey Makarychev. 2021. Belarus, Russia, and the escape from geopolitics. Political Geography, 89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102377. 

Kazharski Aliaksei and Silvia Macalová. 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. https://doi.org/10.5937/jrs15-24079

Kazharski, Aliaksei and Andrey Makarychev. 2020. Populism in Estonia and Slovakia: Performances, Transgressions, and Communicative Styles. Populism, 3(2): 165–185.

Grančayová Michaela and Kazharski Aliaksei 2020. ‘The Slovakebab’: Anti-Islam Agenda in Slovak Parliamentary Elections and Beyond. Czech Journal of Political Science. 27:3, 259-277.DOI 10.5817/PC2020-3-259.

Golianová, Veronika and Aliaksei Kazharski. 2020. ‘The Unsolid.’ Pro-Kremlin Narratives in Slovak Cultural and Educational Institutions.  The RUSI Journal, 165(4): 10-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/03071847.2020.1796521.

Kazharski, Aliaksei. 2020. An ad hoc Regionalism? The Visegrád Four in the “Post-Liberal” Age. Polity, 52, 250-272.

Kazharski, Aliaksei. 2020. Civilizations as ontological security? Stories of the Russian trauma. Problems of Post-Communism, 67(1): 24-36. https://doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2019.1591925. 

Kazharski, Aliaksei. 2019. Frontiers of hatred? A study of extreme right populism in Slovakia. European Politics and Society, 20(4): 393-405. https://doi.org/10.1080/23745118.2019.1569337.

Kazharski, Aliaksei. 2019. Two kinds of small? The ‘EU core’ in Slovak and Czech geopolitical imagination. Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 27(4): 424-438. https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2019.1598340. 

Kazharski, Aliaksei. 2018. The End of ‘Central Europe’? The Rise of the Radical Right and the Contestation of Identities in Slovakia and the Visegrad Four. Geopolitics, 23(4): 754-780. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2017.1389720

Kazharski, Aliaksei & Andrey Makarychev. 2015. Suturing the neighborhood? Russia and the European Union in a conflictual intersubjectivity. Problems of Post-Communism, 62:6. https://doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2015.1057077.

Chapters

Grančayová Michaela, Kazharski, Aliaksei, & Tabosa Clarissa. (2025). Religion and social progressivism in Poland and Slovakia: toward (de)securitization?. In: András Máté-Tóth, Kinga Povedák (eds.) Religion as Securitization in Central and Eastern Europe (pp. 135-161).

Kazharski Aliaksei & Pierson-Lyzhina, Ekaterina. (2024). "The Lithuanians Have Our Back": Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya's Office and the United Transitional Cabinet in the Face of Fragmented Western Support. In: Péter Marton et al. (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Non-State Actors in East-West Relations (pp. 473-487).

Kazharski, Aliaksei & Katsiaryna Lozka. Belarus-Russia relations: identity as product and factor. In: Arkady Moshes & Ryhor Nizhnikau. (eds) Russian policy toward Belarus after 2020 : at a turning point? Rowmand&Littlefield, 2023

Kazharski, Aliaksei. Die »Westsplainers« erklären: Kann ein Wissenschaftler aus dem Westen eine Autorität für Zentral- und Osteuropa sein? In Aleksandra Konarzewska et al. (eds) „ALLES IST TEURER ALS UKRAINISCHES LEBEN“ – Texte über Westsplaining und den Krieg, Berlin: Edition.fotoTAPETA, 2023.

Kazharski, Aliaksei, Tatsiana Kulakevich & Katsiaryna Lozka. “Belarus-Ukraine Relations“. In: Malek M. and Schäffer S. (eds) Ukraine in Central and Eastern Europe, ibidem Press, 2022. 

Kazharski, Aliaksei & Clarissa  do Nascimento Tabosa (2018) New Patterns of Securitization in Central and Eastern Europe. In: Turcsányi R. Q. & M. Vorotnyuk (eds.) Theorizing Security in the Eastern European Neighborhood: Issues and Approaches. Bratislava&Kyiv, 2018

Kazharski, Aliaksei. On "East", "Central" and "Eastern" Europe: Belarus and Central European politics of identity. In Moskalewicz M, Przybylski W (eds.) Understanding Central Europe. London and New York: Routledge, 2018.

Kazharski, Aliaksei. The Kundera paradox: dying for Ukraine and EUrope? What the Ukrainian crisis can tell us about European power. In Moskalewicz M, Przybylski W (eds) Understanding Central Europe. London and New York: Routledge, 2018.

Kazharski, Aliaksei. Belarus' Entry into International Society: Between a Small Nation-State and Big Narratives. In Ejdus F (ed.) Memories of Empire and Entry into International Society. Views from the European periphery. London: Routledge, 2017.

Kazharski, Aliaksei. From “colony" to “failing state"? Ukrainian sovereignty in the gaze of Russian foreign policy discourses. In Makarychev A., Yatsyk A. (eds.). Vocabularies of International Relations after the Crisis in Ukraine. London: Routledge, 2016.

Other 

Visegrad Insight contributions: https://visegradinsight.eu/author/aliaksei-kazharski/

Aliaksei Kazharski on Far-Right Populism in Central and Eastern Europe and Russia. Marlene Laruelle, ed. Conversations on Illiberalism. Interviews with 50 scholars Interviews with 50 scholars, https://www.illiberalism.org/conversations-on-illiberalism/

Explaining the “Westsplainers”: Can a Western scholar be an authority on Central and Eastern Europe? Forum for Ukrainian Studies, https://ukrainian-studies.ca/2022/07/19/explaining-the-westsplainers-can-a-western-scholar-be-an-authority-on-central-and-eastern-europe/

The EU's Neighborhood Policy and Authoritarian Regimes: a Mounting Security Challenge. TEPSA BRIEFS, February 2022, https://www.tepsa.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/ForPublication_KazharskiAliaksei.pdf

Authoritarian Spectacles and the Vulnerabilities of Interdependence. LSE Ideas CSEEP, https://cseep.uj.edu.pl/research-papers/-/journal_content/56_INSTANCE_5Ruur55RhIBP/147284642/152589183

Identity Politics of the Far Right in the Czech Republic. Freedom and Direct Democracy. CBEES 2021 State of the Region Report, https://sh.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1640388/FULLTEXT01.pdf

Belarus and the EU after the 2020 Awakening: Limited Room for Maneuver? 2021 RIGA CONFERENCE, https://www.lato.lv/aliaksei-kazharski-belarus-and-the-eu-after-the-2020-awakening-limited-room-for-maneuver/

The “Good”, the “Bad” and the “Ugly”.  Anti-establishment populism and the Slovak presidential election, Baltic Worlds, https://balticworlds.com/anti-establishment-populism-and-the-slovak-presidential-election/

Aliaksei Kazharski, Andrey Makarychev. Europe in Crisis: “Old,” “New,” or Incomplete?  PONARS Eurasia. https://ponarseurasia.org/wp-content/uploads/attachments/Pepm515_Makarychev-Kazharski_March2018_0-8.pdf