Neil Robinson

Russian politics; post-communist politics; political economy of Russia, especially the influence of international economy on Russia; state and institution buidling in Russia;

PO4051 Introduction to Politics and International RelationsPO4032 Russian Politics PO5112 Russian and; Post Soviet PoliticsPO5009 Graduate Seminar in Comparative Politics

Neil Robinson BA (CNAA), MA, PhD (Essex)andnbsp;is Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Limerick. Prior to his appointment at Limerick he taught at the universities of York and Essex. His research interests focus on Russian and post-communist politics, particularly the political economy of post-communism and post-communist state building. He is the author ofandnbsp;Ideology and the collapse of the Soviet system. A critical history of Soviet ideological discourseandnbsp;( Edward Elgar, 1995), andandnbsp;Russia: a state of uncertaintyandnbsp;(Routledge, 2002),andnbsp;Contemporary Russian Politicsandnbsp;(Polity, 2018), and co-author (with Karen Henderson) ofandnbsp;Post-communist politicsandnbsp;(Prentice Hall, 1997). He is the editor or co-editor of Institutions and and political change in Russiaandnbsp;(Macmillan, 2000), Reforging the weakest link: global political economy and post-Soviet change in Russia, Ukraine and Belarusandnbsp;(Ashgate, 2004), (with Aidan Hehir)andnbsp;State-building. Theory and practice (Routledge, 2007), and (with Todd Landman) The Sage handbook of comparative politicsandnbsp;(Sage, 2009),andnbsp;The political economy of Russiaandnbsp;(Rowman and; Littlefield, 2012), and (with Rory Costello) Comparative European politics. Distinctive democracies, common challenges (Oxford University Press, 2020; second edition 2024). He is the author of several book chapters and journal articles in, among other places,andnbsp;Soviet Studies,andnbsp;European Journal of Political Research,andnbsp;Political Studies,andnbsp;The Journal of Communist Studies and Transitional Politics,andnbsp;Communist and Post-Communist Studies,andnbsp;Demokratizatsiya, Review of International Political Economy, International Political Science Review, Russian Politics.