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Andreas Umland

Andreas Umland

Andreas Umland, Ph.D., studied politics and history in Berlin, Oxford, Stanford, and Cambridge. He has been an associate professor at the Department of Political Science of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA) since 2010 and an analyst at the Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS) of the Swedish Institute of International Relations (UI) since 2021.

Articles and Events

Prigozhin's Other Rebellion

Prigozhin's Other Rebellion

The Wagner leader joins a notable group of Kremlin henchmen who have undermined the state’s rationale.

Andreas Umland
The Legal Barriers to Ukraine-Russia Peace

The Legal Barriers to Ukraine-Russia Peace

Putin’s annexation of Crimea fundamentally changed Russian domestic law—and burned all the bridges that could lead to a Ukraine-Russia peace deal.

Andreas Umland
Rough Road to Ramstein

Rough Road to Ramstein

As defense ministers meet in Germany to tussle over tanks, policymakers must know: Ukrainian victory will be a crucial defeat for Russian revanchism. The alternatives are bleak.

Andreas Umland
Russia's Pseudo-Intellectuals

Russia's Pseudo-Intellectuals

Russia's war on Ukraine is undergirded by pseudo-intellectual academics espousing pro-Kremlin ideas and a radical rejection of today's liberal world.

Andreas Umland