Paul D’Anieri

Professor, Associate Dean of Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Department of Political Science

Contact Information

Office phone number: 864-3661
Office: 200 Strong

Office Hours for Fall 2007:

200 Strong Hall 10:00-11:30 M, 12:30-1:30 T, 3:00-4:00 R

Email Address: p-danieri@ku.edu

Vita:

Background

Educational Background
Graduated from:

Cornell, Ph.D., 1991
Cornell, M.A., 1988
Michigan State, 1986

First Appointed at KU: 1991

Areas of Interest

Brief list of research and teaching interests:

International Relations, Comparative Politics, politics and foreign policy in post-soviet states, Ukraine

Selected and Recent Publications

Books:

Understanding Ukrainian Politics: Power, Politics, and Institutional Design (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2007).

Dilemmas of State-Led Nation Building in Ukraine, (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002), edited with Taras Kuzio.

Politics and Society in Ukraine, (Boulder: Westview, 1999), with Robert Kravchuk and Taras Kuzio.

Economic Interdependence in Ukrainian-Russian Relations, (Albany: SUNY Press, 1999).

State and Institution Building in Ukraine, (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999), edited with Taras Kuzio and Robert Kravchuk.

Recent Articles:

“Ethnic Tensions and State Strategies: Understanding the Survival of the Ukrainian State,” Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Forthcoming.

“Explaining the Success and Failure of Post-Communist Revolutions,” Communist and Post-Communist Studies 39, 3 (2006): 331-350.

“What Has Changed in Ukrainian Politics? Assessing the Implications of the ‘Orange Revolution,’” Problems of Post-Communism (September-October 2005): 82-91.

“Asymetriya Mizhnarodnykh Ekonomichnykh Vidnosyn: Dylemy Nezalzhnosti,” in H. M. Perepelytsya and O.M. Subtelny, eds., Asymetriya Mizhnarodnykh Vidnosyn (Kyiv: Vydavnychyy Dim “Stylos:” 2005), pp. 147-187.

“The Last Hurrah: The 2004 Ukrainian Presidential Elections and the Limits of Machine Politics,” Communist and Post-Communist Studies 38, 2 (June 2005): 231-249.

“Leonid Kuchma and the Personalization of the Ukrainian Presidency,” Problems of Post-Communism, (September 2003).