Mikhail Alexseev

Mikhail Alexseev (Ph.D., University of Washington, 1996) is an associate professor of political science at San Diego State University. He is an internationally recognized authority on migration, ethnopolitical conflict, and post-Soviet Russia. Alexseev is the author of Immigration Phobia and the Security Dilemma: Russia, Europe, and the United States (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and Without Warning: Threat Assessment, Intelligence, and Global Struggle (St. Martin’s Press, 1997) and is the editor of A Federation Imperiled: Center-Periphery Conflict in Post-Soviet Russia (St. Martin’s Press, 1999). He has been the principal investigator of a multi-year international research project on migration and ethnoreligious violence in the Russian Federation funded by the National Science Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (Title VIII, U.S. Department of State). His previous projects have been funded by Reuters, NATO, the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, the U. S. Institute of Peace, the John W. Kluge Center of the Library of Congress, the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and the Pacific Basin Research Center at Harvard University. Alexseev has published articles in Political Science Quarterly, Journal of Peace Research, Political Behavior, Political Communication, Europe-Asia Studies, Nationalities Papers, Post-Soviet Geography and Economics, The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, and Pacific Focus. His editorial opinion articles on Soviet and Post-Soviet affairs have appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, Toronto Globe and Mail, USA Today, and The Seattle Times. He is a member of the Carnegie/MacArthur sponsored Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS) – Eurasia, based at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Alexseev’s “Russia in Asia” web pages are at http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/polsciwb/Alexseev/index.htm and his research project summaries and data are posted on http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~alexseev/migration_and_ethnic_conflict/

Below is a sample of recent publications:

“Nationhood Vigilantism in the Global Semi-Periphery: Migration and Ethnoreligious Hostility in Russia,” in Adam Eberhardt & Akihiro Iwashita, eds., Security Challenges in the Post-Soviet Space: European and Asian Perspectives, Polish Institute of International Affairs, Slavic Research  Center Hokkaido  University, Warsaw-Sapporo 2007.

Immigration Phobia and the Security Dilemma: Russia, Europe, and the United States (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006)

“Ballot-Box Vigilantism: Ethnic Population Shifts and Xenophobic Voting in Post-Soviet Russia,” Political Behavior 28 (3)(September 2006): 211-240.

“Russia, China, and the Immigration Security Dilemma” Political Science Quarterly (Spring 2006): 1-32 (with C. Richard Hofstetter).

 “Migration, Hostility, and Ethnopolitical Mobilization: Russia’s Anti-Chinese Legacies in Formation,” in Blair Ruble and Dominique Arel, eds., Rebounding Identities (Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2006)