Mikhail A Alexseev
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 966636 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Mikhail A Alexseev |
| PRENOMES | Mikhail A |
| SOBRENOME | Alexseev |
| ASSINATURA | ALEXSEEV M A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | San Diego State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2733-2182 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 136 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1995 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Victory-in-freedom
The article offers a rare systematic analysis of political attitudes in societies experiencing massive military invasions using statistical analysis of two original surveys conducted by the Ukraine National Academy of Sciences Institute of Sociology — a panel survey tracking the same respondents in three waves (N = 329, November 2021, June-July 2022, and June 2023) and an additional larger survey (N = 869, June 2023). Despite devastating sufferin…
Geosocietal Support for Democracy
We examine why public support for democracy in Ukraine increased after Russia’s 2014 intervention and surged after Russia’s 2022 invasion—despite concerns that the wartime quest for security would diminish support for political freedoms. We statistically analyze original data generated as part of annual opinion surveys by the Institute of Sociology at Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences in 2017 (N = 2,199), 2018 (N = 1,800), and a 2021–22 pane…
Pandemic Politics in Eurasia
The sudden onset of COVID-19 has challenged many social scientists to proceed without a robust theoretical and empirical foundation upon which to build. Addressing this challenge, particularly as it pertains to Eurasia, our multinational group of scholars draws on past and ongoing research to suggest a roadmap for a new pandemic politics research subfield. Key research questions include not only how states are responding to the new coronavirus, b…
Crimea come what may
Do international economic sanctions backfire politically, resulting in increased rather than decreased domestic support for targeted state leaders? Backfire arguments are common, but researchers have only recently begun systematically studying sanctions' impact on target-state public opinion, not yet fully unpacking different possible backfire mechanisms. We formulate backfire logic explicitly, distinguishing between 'scapegoating' and 'rallying'…
Mass Religious Ritual and Intergroup Tolerance
Under what conditions does in-group pride facilitate out-group tolerance? What are the causal linkages between intergroup tolerance and socialization in religious rituals? This book examines how Muslims from Russia's North Caucuses returned from the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca both more devout as Muslims and more tolerant of out-groups. Drawing on prominent theories of identity and social capital, the authors resolve seeming contradictions between t…
From Mecca with tolerance
Does participation in mass religious rituals promote intergroup conflict or does it promote intergroup tolerance? We assess these claims by examining the effects of the annual pilgrimage to Mecca (the hajj) on sociopolitical views of Muslims in Russia's North Caucasus. Participant observation during the hajj and a quasi-experimental focus group study of pilgrims and non-pilgrims produced paradoxical findings. While the hajj strengthened their ing…
The Asymmetry of Nationalist Exclusion and Inclusion
Objective The study investigates sources of asymmetry between individual attitudes toward nationalist inclusion and exclusion—focusing on why public support in Russia for deporting all migrants remained about the same from 2005 to 2013, while support for admitting all migrants significantly declined. Methods Data from surveys based on multistage random sampling of the adult population of the Russian Federation in 2005 ( N = 579) and 2013 ( N = 80…
The Crisis of Russian Democracy
Journal Article The Crisis of Russian Democracy: The Dual State, Factionalism and the Medvedev Succession by Richard Sakwa Get access The Crisis of Russian Democracy: The Dual State, Factionalism and the Medvedev Succession by Richard Sakwa. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2011. 418 pp. $34.99. Mikhail Alexseev Mikhail Alexseev San Diego State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Scie…
Societal security, the security dilemma, and extreme anti-migrant hostility in Russia
The societal security theory posits that extreme anti-migrant hostility - such as demands to deport all migrants unconditionally - emerges when host communities see migration as a threat to the survival of their group identity. An alternative interpretation - the immigration security dilemma - attributes extreme hostility to the human tendency to prepare for the worst under uncertainty when central authority weakens. Does extreme intergroup hosti…
Majority and Minority Xenophobia in Russia
Given increases in hostility and violence targeting Russia's migrant minorities since the late 1990s, local and international scholars, human rights groups, and others have focused predominantly on relationships between the ethnic Russian majority and the non-Russian ethnic minorities. The emergent xenophobic activism among ethnic minorities, or inter-minority xenophobia, has received much less attention. Mass survey data from the Russian Federat…
The Next Great Clash
Journal Article The Next Great Clash: China and Russia vs. the United States by Michael L. Levin Get access The Next Great Clash: China and Russia vs. the United States by Michael L. Levin. Westport, CT, Praeger Publishers, 2007. 216 pp. $44.95. Mikhail A. Alexseev Mikhail A. Alexseev San Diego State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 123, Issue 4, Winter 2008, P…
Ballot-Box Vigilantism? Ethnic Population Shifts and Xenophobic Voting in Post-Soviet Russia
Russia, China, and the Immigration Security Dilemma
Journal Article Russia, China, and the Immigration Security Dilemma Get access Mikhail A. Alexseev, Mikhail A. Alexseev MIKHAIL A. ALEXSEEV is associate professor in the Department of Political Science at San Diego State University and director of a research project on ethnoreligious hostility and violence in Russia funded by the National Science Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation. His latest book is Immigration Phobia and the Security Dilem…
Immigration Phobia and the Security Dilemma
Immigration phobia is a paradoxical global phenomenon: neither theories that link conflict to symbolic and realistic threats, nor the 'contact hypothesis' can systematically explain intense anti-migrant alarmism and exclusionism toward marginally small migrant minorities. Through a careful comparative study of immigration attitudes in the Russian Far East, the EU, and the United States, this book is the first to demonstrate that concerns about na…
Economic Valuations and Interethnic Fears
When members of one ethnic group feel threatened by population trends favoring ethnic `others', would perceived economic gains associated with such population change - as in many cases of migration - reduce perceived threats to security and interethnic hostility? An ideal quasi-experimental setting for addressing this question is Chinese cross-border migration into the Russian Far East, where the author designed and directed an opinion survey in …
Russia and Its New Diasporas
Journal Article Russia and Its New Diasporas Get access Russia and its New Diasporas by Igor Zevelev. Herndon, VA, United States Institute of Peace Press, 2001. 240 pp. Paper, $19.95. Mikhail A. Alexseev Mikhail A. Alexseev San Diego State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 117, Issue 2, Summer 2002, Pages 332–334, https://doi.org/10.2307/798200 Published: 15 Feb…
Decentralization versus State Collapse
The non-collapse of post-Soviet Russia suggests that state disintegration is not a function of the degree of central control or the balance of power between the center and the periphery, but of the existence and effectiveness of institutions that mediate center-periphery grievances. The article examines four such institutional factors (unavailable under communism) that have enabled the Russian Federation to survive socio-economic and political ch…
Russia in Asia or Asia in Russia
Russian Regions in Expanding Europe
BARGAINING OVER POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC POWER between the federal government in Moscow and the 89 subjects of the Russian Federation is now widely considered as critical to the success of Russia's democratic and free market reforms, if not to Russia's enduring viability as a state.1 The key challenge to Moscow, and to Russia as a whole, is how to harmonise different levels of political control so that economic growth could be accelerated and socia…
Watching out for regional separatism in the Russian far East
Why has regional separatism failed to materialise in the post‐Soviet Russian Far East despite the region's remoteness from Russia's European heartland, its proximity to the Pacific Rim economies, the decline of economic support from Moscow, and a 'frontier' culture of resistance to Moscow's rule? Focusing on political developments in Primorskii Krai ‐ the key frontier province in the Russian Far East ‐ the study finds that territorial security, e…
Early Warning, Ethnopolitical Conflicts, and the United Nations
The collapse of communism in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe was accompanied by ethnopolitical conflicts that erupted “with unusual cruelty and violence” but without much warning and were soon recognized as a major threat to peace, security, and development in the post-Cold War era. Can one be alerted to the Nagorno-Karabakhs, Bosnias, Rwandas, and Tajikistans of the world—in time to take decisive preventive action
For whom the gates open
This study investigates whether political content cues in the news in both established and emerging democracies can be explained by implicit normative relations between journalists and representatives of government institutions. In particular, what patterns of press‐government relations dominate news coverage in a given polity? These questions are explored in a comparative study of parallel national security issues in the news in three nations at…
Majority and Minority Xenophobia in Russia
Given increases in hostility and violence targeting Russia's migrant minorities since the late 1990s, local and international scholars, human rights groups, and others have focused predominantly on relationships between the ethnic Russian majority and the non-Russian ethnic minorities. The emergent xenophobic activism among ethnic minorities, or inter-minority xenophobia, has received much less attention. Mass survey data from the Russian Federat…
Ballot-Box Vigilantism? Ethnic Population Shifts and Xenophobic Voting in Post-Soviet Russia
For whom the gates open
This study investigates whether political content cues in the news in both established and emerging democracies can be explained by implicit normative relations between journalists and representatives of government institutions. In particular, what patterns of press‐government relations dominate news coverage in a given polity? These questions are explored in a comparative study of parallel national security issues in the news in three nations at…
Crimea come what may
Do international economic sanctions backfire politically, resulting in increased rather than decreased domestic support for targeted state leaders? Backfire arguments are common, but researchers have only recently begun systematically studying sanctions' impact on target-state public opinion, not yet fully unpacking different possible backfire mechanisms. We formulate backfire logic explicitly, distinguishing between 'scapegoating' and 'rallying'…
Russia, China, and the Immigration Security Dilemma
Journal Article Russia, China, and the Immigration Security Dilemma Get access Mikhail A. Alexseev, Mikhail A. Alexseev MIKHAIL A. ALEXSEEV is associate professor in the Department of Political Science at San Diego State University and director of a research project on ethnoreligious hostility and violence in Russia funded by the National Science Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation. His latest book is Immigration Phobia and the Security Dilem…
Russia and Its New Diasporas
Journal Article Russia and Its New Diasporas Get access Russia and its New Diasporas by Igor Zevelev. Herndon, VA, United States Institute of Peace Press, 2001. 240 pp. Paper, $19.95. Mikhail A. Alexseev Mikhail A. Alexseev San Diego State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 117, Issue 2, Summer 2002, Pages 332–334, https://doi.org/10.2307/798200 Published: 15 Feb…
Pandemic Politics in Eurasia
The sudden onset of COVID-19 has challenged many social scientists to proceed without a robust theoretical and empirical foundation upon which to build. Addressing this challenge, particularly as it pertains to Eurasia, our multinational group of scholars draws on past and ongoing research to suggest a roadmap for a new pandemic politics research subfield. Key research questions include not only how states are responding to the new coronavirus, b…
Geosocietal Support for Democracy
We examine why public support for democracy in Ukraine increased after Russia’s 2014 intervention and surged after Russia’s 2022 invasion—despite concerns that the wartime quest for security would diminish support for political freedoms. We statistically analyze original data generated as part of annual opinion surveys by the Institute of Sociology at Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences in 2017 (N = 2,199), 2018 (N = 1,800), and a 2021–22 pane…
Russian Regions in Expanding Europe
BARGAINING OVER POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC POWER between the federal government in Moscow and the 89 subjects of the Russian Federation is now widely considered as critical to the success of Russia's democratic and free market reforms, if not to Russia's enduring viability as a state.1 The key challenge to Moscow, and to Russia as a whole, is how to harmonise different levels of political control so that economic growth could be accelerated and socia…
Societal security, the security dilemma, and extreme anti-migrant hostility in Russia
The societal security theory posits that extreme anti-migrant hostility - such as demands to deport all migrants unconditionally - emerges when host communities see migration as a threat to the survival of their group identity. An alternative interpretation - the immigration security dilemma - attributes extreme hostility to the human tendency to prepare for the worst under uncertainty when central authority weakens. Does extreme intergroup hosti…
Economic Valuations and Interethnic Fears
When members of one ethnic group feel threatened by population trends favoring ethnic `others', would perceived economic gains associated with such population change - as in many cases of migration - reduce perceived threats to security and interethnic hostility? An ideal quasi-experimental setting for addressing this question is Chinese cross-border migration into the Russian Far East, where the author designed and directed an opinion survey in …
From Mecca with tolerance
Does participation in mass religious rituals promote intergroup conflict or does it promote intergroup tolerance? We assess these claims by examining the effects of the annual pilgrimage to Mecca (the hajj) on sociopolitical views of Muslims in Russia's North Caucasus. Participant observation during the hajj and a quasi-experimental focus group study of pilgrims and non-pilgrims produced paradoxical findings. While the hajj strengthened their ing…
Decentralization versus State Collapse
The non-collapse of post-Soviet Russia suggests that state disintegration is not a function of the degree of central control or the balance of power between the center and the periphery, but of the existence and effectiveness of institutions that mediate center-periphery grievances. The article examines four such institutional factors (unavailable under communism) that have enabled the Russian Federation to survive socio-economic and political ch…
The Asymmetry of Nationalist Exclusion and Inclusion
Objective The study investigates sources of asymmetry between individual attitudes toward nationalist inclusion and exclusion—focusing on why public support in Russia for deporting all migrants remained about the same from 2005 to 2013, while support for admitting all migrants significantly declined. Methods Data from surveys based on multistage random sampling of the adult population of the Russian Federation in 2005 ( N = 579) and 2013 ( N = 80…
For whom the gates open
This study investigates whether political content cues in the news in both established and emerging democracies can be explained by implicit normative relations between journalists and representatives of government institutions. In particular, what patterns of press‐government relations dominate news coverage in a given polity? These questions are explored in a comparative study of parallel national security issues in the news in three nations at…
Early Warning, Ethnopolitical Conflicts, and the United Nations
The collapse of communism in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe was accompanied by ethnopolitical conflicts that erupted “with unusual cruelty and violence” but without much warning and were soon recognized as a major threat to peace, security, and development in the post-Cold War era. Can one be alerted to the Nagorno-Karabakhs, Bosnias, Rwandas, and Tajikistans of the world—in time to take decisive preventive action
Russia in Asia or Asia in Russia
Russian Regions in Expanding Europe
BARGAINING OVER POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC POWER between the federal government in Moscow and the 89 subjects of the Russian Federation is now widely considered as critical to the success of Russia's democratic and free market reforms, if not to Russia's enduring viability as a state.1 The key challenge to Moscow, and to Russia as a whole, is how to harmonise different levels of political control so that economic growth could be accelerated and socia…
Watching out for regional separatism in the Russian far East
Why has regional separatism failed to materialise in the post‐Soviet Russian Far East despite the region's remoteness from Russia's European heartland, its proximity to the Pacific Rim economies, the decline of economic support from Moscow, and a 'frontier' culture of resistance to Moscow's rule? Focusing on political developments in Primorskii Krai ‐ the key frontier province in the Russian Far East ‐ the study finds that territorial security, e…
Decentralization versus State Collapse
The non-collapse of post-Soviet Russia suggests that state disintegration is not a function of the degree of central control or the balance of power between the center and the periphery, but of the existence and effectiveness of institutions that mediate center-periphery grievances. The article examines four such institutional factors (unavailable under communism) that have enabled the Russian Federation to survive socio-economic and political ch…
Russia and Its New Diasporas
Journal Article Russia and Its New Diasporas Get access Russia and its New Diasporas by Igor Zevelev. Herndon, VA, United States Institute of Peace Press, 2001. 240 pp. Paper, $19.95. Mikhail A. Alexseev Mikhail A. Alexseev San Diego State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 117, Issue 2, Summer 2002, Pages 332–334, https://doi.org/10.2307/798200 Published: 15 Feb…
Economic Valuations and Interethnic Fears
When members of one ethnic group feel threatened by population trends favoring ethnic `others', would perceived economic gains associated with such population change - as in many cases of migration - reduce perceived threats to security and interethnic hostility? An ideal quasi-experimental setting for addressing this question is Chinese cross-border migration into the Russian Far East, where the author designed and directed an opinion survey in …
Immigration Phobia and the Security Dilemma
Immigration phobia is a paradoxical global phenomenon: neither theories that link conflict to symbolic and realistic threats, nor the 'contact hypothesis' can systematically explain intense anti-migrant alarmism and exclusionism toward marginally small migrant minorities. Through a careful comparative study of immigration attitudes in the Russian Far East, the EU, and the United States, this book is the first to demonstrate that concerns about na…
Ballot-Box Vigilantism? Ethnic Population Shifts and Xenophobic Voting in Post-Soviet Russia
Russia, China, and the Immigration Security Dilemma
Journal Article Russia, China, and the Immigration Security Dilemma Get access Mikhail A. Alexseev, Mikhail A. Alexseev MIKHAIL A. ALEXSEEV is associate professor in the Department of Political Science at San Diego State University and director of a research project on ethnoreligious hostility and violence in Russia funded by the National Science Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation. His latest book is Immigration Phobia and the Security Dilem…
The Next Great Clash
Journal Article The Next Great Clash: China and Russia vs. the United States by Michael L. Levin Get access The Next Great Clash: China and Russia vs. the United States by Michael L. Levin. Westport, CT, Praeger Publishers, 2007. 216 pp. $44.95. Mikhail A. Alexseev Mikhail A. Alexseev San Diego State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 123, Issue 4, Winter 2008, P…
Majority and Minority Xenophobia in Russia
Given increases in hostility and violence targeting Russia's migrant minorities since the late 1990s, local and international scholars, human rights groups, and others have focused predominantly on relationships between the ethnic Russian majority and the non-Russian ethnic minorities. The emergent xenophobic activism among ethnic minorities, or inter-minority xenophobia, has received much less attention. Mass survey data from the Russian Federat…
Societal security, the security dilemma, and extreme anti-migrant hostility in Russia
The societal security theory posits that extreme anti-migrant hostility - such as demands to deport all migrants unconditionally - emerges when host communities see migration as a threat to the survival of their group identity. An alternative interpretation - the immigration security dilemma - attributes extreme hostility to the human tendency to prepare for the worst under uncertainty when central authority weakens. Does extreme intergroup hosti…
The Crisis of Russian Democracy
Journal Article The Crisis of Russian Democracy: The Dual State, Factionalism and the Medvedev Succession by Richard Sakwa Get access The Crisis of Russian Democracy: The Dual State, Factionalism and the Medvedev Succession by Richard Sakwa. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2011. 418 pp. $34.99. Mikhail Alexseev Mikhail Alexseev San Diego State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Scie…
From Mecca with tolerance
Does participation in mass religious rituals promote intergroup conflict or does it promote intergroup tolerance? We assess these claims by examining the effects of the annual pilgrimage to Mecca (the hajj) on sociopolitical views of Muslims in Russia's North Caucasus. Participant observation during the hajj and a quasi-experimental focus group study of pilgrims and non-pilgrims produced paradoxical findings. While the hajj strengthened their ing…
The Asymmetry of Nationalist Exclusion and Inclusion
Objective The study investigates sources of asymmetry between individual attitudes toward nationalist inclusion and exclusion—focusing on why public support in Russia for deporting all migrants remained about the same from 2005 to 2013, while support for admitting all migrants significantly declined. Methods Data from surveys based on multistage random sampling of the adult population of the Russian Federation in 2005 ( N = 579) and 2013 ( N = 80…
Mass Religious Ritual and Intergroup Tolerance
Under what conditions does in-group pride facilitate out-group tolerance? What are the causal linkages between intergroup tolerance and socialization in religious rituals? This book examines how Muslims from Russia's North Caucuses returned from the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca both more devout as Muslims and more tolerant of out-groups. Drawing on prominent theories of identity and social capital, the authors resolve seeming contradictions between t…
Pandemic Politics in Eurasia
The sudden onset of COVID-19 has challenged many social scientists to proceed without a robust theoretical and empirical foundation upon which to build. Addressing this challenge, particularly as it pertains to Eurasia, our multinational group of scholars draws on past and ongoing research to suggest a roadmap for a new pandemic politics research subfield. Key research questions include not only how states are responding to the new coronavirus, b…
Crimea come what may
Do international economic sanctions backfire politically, resulting in increased rather than decreased domestic support for targeted state leaders? Backfire arguments are common, but researchers have only recently begun systematically studying sanctions' impact on target-state public opinion, not yet fully unpacking different possible backfire mechanisms. We formulate backfire logic explicitly, distinguishing between 'scapegoating' and 'rallying'…
Victory-in-freedom
The article offers a rare systematic analysis of political attitudes in societies experiencing massive military invasions using statistical analysis of two original surveys conducted by the Ukraine National Academy of Sciences Institute of Sociology — a panel survey tracking the same respondents in three waves (N = 329, November 2021, June-July 2022, and June 2023) and an additional larger survey (N = 869, June 2023). Despite devastating sufferin…
Geosocietal Support for Democracy
We examine why public support for democracy in Ukraine increased after Russia’s 2014 intervention and surged after Russia’s 2022 invasion—despite concerns that the wartime quest for security would diminish support for political freedoms. We statistically analyze original data generated as part of annual opinion surveys by the Institute of Sociology at Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences in 2017 (N = 2,199), 2018 (N = 1,800), and a 2021–22 pane…
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