Max Bader

Max Bader — is a university lecturer with expertise on Russia and Eurasia (post Soviet area). Before coming to Leiden University, he was a lecturer and researcher at the University of Amsterdam, the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and the OSCE Academy, and a visiting scholar at George Washington University and the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Dr. Bader’s research interests include elections, authoritarian politics, democratization, and new media. His research interests include elections, authoritarian politics, democratization, and new media. Bader’s current research project is Human Security and Conflict in Ukraine: Local Approaches and Transnational Dimensions. He has published in journals such as Democratization, Post-Soviet Affairs, Russian Politics, Research & Politics, Europe-Asia Studies, Representation, Communist and Post-Communist Studies.

Outside academia, Bader has been or is currently involved in: election observation for OSCE/ODIHR and other institutions in the post-Soviet area; policy evaluation for USAID and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands; Public speaking on politics and international affairs in post-Soviet Eurasia; membership of the Younger Generation Leadership Network on Euro- Atlantic Security

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