Teaching
Courses at the FU Berlin
Summer semester 2024
- Authoritarian Politics in the Modern World (BA level)
- Causal Analysis in Quantitative Political Science (MA level)
- Soviet Politics and Its Legacies (MA level)
- National Scientific Communities between Isolation and Integration (MA level)
- Colloquium (MA level)
Winter semester 2023/24
- Conspiracy Theories and Authoritarian Regimes (BA level)
- Interdisciplinarity and Area Studies (MA level)
- Quantitative Methods in Political Science and Area Studies (MA level)
- Colloquium (MA level)
Summer semester 2023
- Economic Theory of Politics (BA level)
- Causal Analysis in Quantitative Political Science (MA level)
- Authoritarianism: Concepts, Practices, Research Methods (MA level)
- German Foreign Policy and Eastern Europe: Challenges of Policy Advice (MA level, with Marie-Janine Calic)
- Colloquium (MA level)
Winter semester 2022/23
- Nudge: Behavioral Economics and Political Science (BA level)
- Experiments in Political and Social Sciences (MA level)
- Mixed Methods and Interdisciplinarity in Area Studies (MA level)
- Quantitative Methods in Political Science and Area Studies (MA level)
- Colloquium (MA level)
Summer semester 2022
- Economic Imperialism? Interaction of Economics and Political Science (BA level)
- Quantitative Methods in Autocracy Research (MA level)
- German Foreign Policy and Eastern Europe: Challenges of Policy Advice (MA level, with Marie-Janine Calic)
- Colloquium (MA level)
Winter semester 2021/22
- Russian Politics: Inevitability of Authoritarianism? (BA level)
- Quantitative Methods in Political Science and Area Studies (MA level)
- Authoritarianism and Society (MA level)
- Authoritarianism in Eurasia: Domestic and International Dimensions (MA level)
- Colloquium (MA level)
Summer semester 2021
- Sub-National Authoritarianism (BA level)
- Quantitative Methods in Autocracy Research (MA level)
- Autocracy Promotion and Diffusion in Eurasia and Beyond (MA level)
- Universalism and Particularism in Eastern Europe: Approaches of History and Political Science (MA level, with Martin Schulze Wessel)
- Colloquium (MA level)
Winter semester 2020/21
- Conspiracy Theories and Authoritarian Regimes (BA level)
- German Foreign Policy and Eastern Europe: Challenges of Policy Advice (MA level, with Marie-Janine Calic)
- Authoritarianism in Eastern Europe, Eurasia and beyond (MA level)
- Temporal Dynamics in Authoritarian Regimes: Between Historical Legacies and Short-Term Power Fluctuations (MA level)
- Colloquium (MA level)
Winter semester 2016/17
- Sanctions in Eurasia: Causes, Effects and Expectations (MA level)
Winter semester 2015/16
- Eurasian Integration: Between Political Power and Economic Interests (MA level)
Courses at the LMU Munich
Winter semester 2020/21
- Causal Analysis (MA level)
Summer semester 2020
- Quantitative Methods in Autocracy Research (BA level)
- Sociology and Economics: Boundaries, Conflicts, Opportunities for Communication (BA level)
- Society and Authoritarian Regimes (BA level)
Winter semester 2019/20
- Area Studies in Eastern and Western Europe (MA level, with Martin Schulze Wessel)
- Causal Analysis (MA level)
- German Foreign Policy and Eastern Europe: Challenges of Policy Advice (MA level, with Marie-Janine Calic)
- Bureaucracy and Power in Authoritarian Regimes (BA level)
- Summer School 'Universalism and Particularism in the Foreign Policy of Eastern European Countries ' (MA Eastern European Studies, co-organizer)
Summer semester 2019
- Sub-National Authoritarianism (BA level)
- International Diffusion of Authoritarian Regimes: Is Authoritarianism Contagious? (BA level)
- Homo Sovieticus: Communist Rule and Values in Post-Communist Societies (BA level)
Winter semester 2018/19
- Parliaments and Societies in Eastern Europe (MA level, with Martin Schulze Wessel)
- Causal Analysis (MA level)
- Religion and Society in Post-Socialist Countries (BA level)
Summer semester 2018
- Social Adaptation to Transformation: Eastern European Experience (BA level, with Laura Eras)
- Conspiracy Theories and Authoritarian Regimes (BA level)
- German Foreign Policy and Eastern Europe: Challenges of Policy Advice (MA level, with Marie-Janine Calic)
- Mixed Methods Designs (BA level, with Hella von Unger)
Winter semester 2017/18
- Political Protests in Russia: From Gorbachev to Putin (BA level)
- From the Oligarchs to the Agents of the State: Politics and Big Business in Russia (BA level)
- Globalization and Post-Socialist Countries (BA level)
- Causal Analysis (MA level)
Summer semester 2017
- Post-Communist Corruption (BA level)
- Migration and Social Change in the Post-Soviet Eurasia (BA level)
- Social Transformations in the Postcommunist Countries (MA level)
- Summer School 'Change in an Interdisciplinary Perspective' in St. Petersburg (MA Eastern European Studies, co-organizer)
Winter semester 2016/17
- Russia and China: A Story of Failure and a Story of Success? (BA level)
- A Post-Soviet Model of Capitalism? (BA level)
- The Long Shadow of the Past: Historical Legacies in Eastern Europe and Eurasia (MA level)
- Quantitative Methods in Postcommunist Studies (MA level)
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