Balkans

Presenter: Vjeran Pavlakovic

Claudia Laštro
U of Graz, Austria
Do Elite Splits Stabilise Autocratic Regimes After All? Insights from Serbia and Montenegro

Caucasus

Presenter: Julie George

Jane Kitaevich
U of Michigan, US
Voices from the Borderlands: Formation of Public Opinion and Regime Preferences in the Shadow of Conflict Violence in Armenia

Central Europe

Presenter: Stephen Deets

Nikolas Weyland
Harvard U, US
Tensions of the Nazi Dictatorship: Adjudicating Accusations against German Citizens of Polish Descent in the WWII-Era Ruhr

Migration

Presenter: Daniel Naujoks

Tiphaine Le Corre
U of Oxford, UK
The Politics of Crisis: Small Boats, Brexit, and Symbolically Autocratic Policymaking
Her second doctoral award

Nationalism

Presenter: Sofia Tipaldou

Santiago Lacroix Eussler
Ohio State U, US
Cultural Strategies of Populism: Explaining Shifts from Statism to Market Reform

Russia

Presenter: Natalya Savelyeva

Andrey Davydov
McGill U, Canada
Radical Right Narratives in Russian Pro-Regime Discourses

Ukraine

Presenter: Olga Onuch

Anna Vozna
U of Ottawa, Canada
Non-State Teachers’ Organizations in Rebuilding Ukrainian Educational System