Unity and Division as the Social Roots of Authoritarianism
(boiled-down version of the book argument)
Knowledge Platform Security & the Rule of Law
June 13, 2023
REPORT LAUNCH: Examining How Civic Mobilizations Grow & Thrive In Authoritarian Contexts
Freedom House,
December 6, 2022
Is There Civil Society Left in Russia? What are its Prospects?
The Harriman Institute,
Columbia University, November 9, 2022
The Civic and the Political:
The Social Roots of Authoritarian Power in Russia
Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies Workshop,
Northwestern University, January 11, 2021
On Russian society and politics
Havighurst Center Russian and Post-Soviet Studies,
Miami University, Ohio, October 19, 2020
On the Belarus protest
Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, International Institute,
University of Michigan, September 8, 2020
On state-society relationships, authoritarianism, and democracy
Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, International Institute,
University of Michigan, October 2, 2018
On the book project
Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame, September 2017