Taras Kuzio


Taras Kuzio is a British Professor of Political Science at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. His area of study is Russian and Ukrainian political, economic and security affairs.

Education

Taras Kuzio is of Ukrainian descent.
He received a BA in economics from the University of Sussex, an MA in Soviet studies from the University of London and holds a doctorate in political science from the University of Birmingham.

Career

In 1986, Kuzio, based in London, began compiling and translating information on current events in Soviet Ukraine and provided this information to the media through the Ukraine Press Agency in Great Britain. UPA was a branch of the British-registered company Society for [Soviet Nationalities Studies], which published the bi-monthly Soviet Nationalities Survey and monthly Soviet Ukrainian Affairs. The Society for Soviet Nationalities Studies was financially supported by the Prolog Research and Publishing Corporation. Unbeknownst to Kuzio, the organisations were funded by the US Central Intelligence Agency as part of its QRPLUMB Project. The CIA said it had no editorial input into UPA releases, which it described as "infiltration of the QRPLUMB product into the USSR".
From 1998-99, he was director of the NATO Information and Documentation Center in Kyiv, Ukraine.
In 2004-06, he was a visiting professor in George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs' Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies.
In 2010-11, he was an Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Visiting Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University in Washington D.C.
In 2011-12, he was a visiting fellow at the Slavic Research Center at Hokkaido University in Japan. Subsequently, he was a senior research associate at the Ukrainian Studies">Ukraine">Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta.
His book, Russian Nationalism and the Russian-Ukrainian War, was published prior to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. This follows two other books on Russia-Ukraine relations: Putin's War Against Ukraine: Revolution, Nationalism and Crime and Ukraine: Democratisation, Corruption and the New Russian Imperialism, the latter of which surveys modern Ukrainian political history. He is the author and editor of sixteen books, including Open Ukraine. Changing Course towards a European Future ''From Kuchmagate to Orange Revolution, Democratic Revolution in Ukraine, Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives on Nationalism and Ukraine-Crimea-Russia: Triangle of Conflict. He has also comparatively researched empire loyalism in Northern Ireland and Donbas.
He is an associate research fellow at the UK Henry Jackson Society thinktank and has contributed to the Atlantic Council, Foreign Affairs, Kyiv Post, New Eastern Europe, and E-International Relations''.

Selected publications

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Think Tank MonographsThe Crimea: Europe’s Next Flashpoint?, p. 38.EU and Ukraine: a turning point in 2004? ISS-EU Occasional Paper, p. 36.Ukraine. Back From the Brink, European Security Study 23, p. 39.Ukrainian Security Policy. Washington Paper 167, pp. 168.Russia-Crimea-Ukraine. Triangle of Conflict, Conflict Studies 267, p. 35.Ukraine. The Unfinished Revolution. European Security Study 16, p. 41.Dissent in Ukraine under Gorbachev , p. 53.