Section: Politics and International Relations

Luke March

Name
Dr Luke March
Title
Senior Lecturer in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics; Deputy Director, Princess Dashkova Russia Centre
Organisation
Politics and International Relations, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh
Address
3.08 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Edinburgh UK EH8 9LD
Telephone
+44 (0)131 650 4241
E-Mail
Research Interests
Russia,Moldova,Radical left,post-Soviet politics,Populism
URL
http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/politics/march_luke

 

Office Hours (Spring 2012)

Please note that I am away on Sabbatical from 1 January - 31 July 2012.  I can be contacted by email but there may be some delay before I am able to reply.

Teaching (2011-12)

  • MA Contemporary Russian Politics (convenor)
  • MSc Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics (convenor)

Qualifications

  • MA Social and Political Science (Cambridge)
  • MSocSc Russian and East European Studies (Birmingham)
  • PhD Russian and East European Studies (Birmingham)

Personal Bibliography

Luke joined Politics and IR in 1999 from Birmingham University, where he finished his PhD and held a temporary post as lecturer in Russian Politics. He spent much of the late 1990s working on the communist left in the former USSR, in particular its ideological and organisational development and influence on democratisation. This research led to several publications including The Communist Party in Post-Soviet Russia (Manchester University Press, 2002), which received a five-star review from Political Studies. His latest book, Radical Left Parties in Europe was published by Routledge in December 2011.  He is also working with Richard Dunphy of Dundee University on The European Left Party: A Case Study in Transnational Party Building (Manchester University Press, 2013).

Research Interests

The politics of the former Soviet Union (especially Russian and Moldovan politics, political parties in the FSU, democratisation and institution-building); The radical left in Europe; Populism; Communism and Russian nationalism.

Recent Publications

2011.  Radical Left Parties in Europe (Routledge)

2011. Communism, in Graeme Gill  and James Young (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Russian Politics & Society (Routledge)

2011. Is Nationalism Rising in Russian Foreign Policy?, Demokratizatsiya, 19:3, pp. 187-208

2011. (with Roland Dannreuther) Russia: Representing or Radicalizing Islam?, in S. Hutchings, C. Flood, G. Miazhevich and H. Nickels (eds.), Islam in its International Context (Cambridge Scholars Publishing), pp. 65-83

2010. (edited, with Roland Dannreuther), Russia and Islam: State, Society and Radicalism (Routledge)

2010.  Modern Moscow: Muslim Moscow? in Russia and Islam: State, Society and Radicalism, pp. 84-102.

2010. (with Roland Dannreuther) Introduction in  Russia and Islam: State, Society and Radicalism, pp. 1-8.

2010. (with Roland Dannreuther) Conclusion in  Russia and Islam: State, Society and Radicalism, pp. 222-9.

2009. Managing opposition in a hybrid regime: Just Russia and parastatal opposition, Slavic Review, 68:3, Fall 2009, pp. 504-527

2009. Diplomacy and Russia's de-democratisation.e-IR, http://www.e-ir.info/?p=1877.

2009. Moldova, in D.J. Sagar (ed.), Political Parties of the World (7th edition) (John Harper Publishing), pp.394-7. 

2008. Contemporary Far Left Parties in Europe: From Marxism to the Mainstream (Bonn/Berlin: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung) 

2008. Die Kommunistische Partei in der Sowjetunion und in Russland (The Communist Party in the Soviet Union and Russia), Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, 47

2008. (with Roland Dannreuther) Chechnya: Has Moscow Won?  Survival,  50:4, pp. 97-112

Also downloadable:

2007. From vanguard of the proletariat to vox populi: left-populism as a ‘shadow’ of contemporary socialism, SAIS Review,  27:1

Current Research

Luke is currently working on the radical left in Europe and Russia, left-wing populism, and  radicalisation and violence in Russia (with Roland Dannreuther) as part of an ESRC research project which concluded in December 2009. His main foci at the moment are research on the European Left Party with Richard Dunphy, Russian nationalism and foreign policy and Russian party politics.

Luke has membership in the following Research Groups: Public Opinion, Parties and Elections.

PhD Supervision

Luke welcomes applications from students considering research in the fields of post-Soviet politics (especially, but not exclusively, Russia and Moldova), populism, the politics of the left and democratisation.

Topics interested in supervising

Luke welcomes applications from students considering research in the fields of post-Soviet politics (especially, but not exclusively, Russia and Moldova), populism, the politics of the left and democratisation.

If you are interested in being supervised by Luke March, please see the links below for more information:

PhD in Politics

This page was published on 8 February 2012


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