Ukraine Between Elections: The New President and the October 2019 Parliamentary Vote

This year’s presidential and parliamentary elections in Ukraine will determine the future of this country for several years to come. The stakes are multidimensional: Will the old power-pyramid or even clan system crumble? Will the elections complete or reverse the 2014 Revolution of Dignity impulse? What kind of support will the new (or old) president have after the parliamentary elections in October? Could the elections start a new era in Ukrainian politics in such regards as gender balance or deoligarchization? Our non-resident senior fellow Andreas Umland will try to deal with these issues in his upcoming presentation at the IIR.

Andreas Umland, CertTransl (Leipzig), AM (Stanford), MPhil (Oxford), DipPolSci, DrPhil (FU Berlin), Ph.D. (Cambridge) held fellow- or lectureships at the Hoover Institution, Harvard University, St. Antony’s College, Urals State University, Shevchenko University of Kyiv, Catholic University of Eichstaett, and Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Since 2014, he has been Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation, Kyiv. He is the general editor of the book series Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society and an editor of the webjournal Forum noveishei vostochnoevropeiskoi istorii i kul’tury. He is a member of the boards of directors/editors of the International Association for Comparative Fascist Studies,NGO “Kyiv Dialogue”, book series Explorations of the Far Right, Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies, Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, and The Ideology and Politics Journal.

We are looking forward to meeting you at the lecture.