Meritförteckning

Alexander Alekseev is a doctoral researcher in political science, funded by the Kone Foundation (2022 – 2024). He holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University in Russia) and a Master’s Degree in Human Rights and Humanitarian Action from the Institut d’études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po Paris in France). Before joining the University of Helsinki, he completed the doctoral programme in political science at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow (Russia).

His doctoral dissertation which he started in Russia and has continued in Finland deals with political discourses of populist radical right parties in the European Union. By focusing on the cases of Poland and France, Alexander examines how populist radical right parties in government and in opposition engage in a symbolic struggle over the meanings of such key political concepts as democracy and rights and freedoms. His interests encompass far-right politics, ideologies, and discourses, political theory and history of political concepts, as well as semiotics and the methodology of discourse analysis.

Before engaging in academic work in Finland, Alexander gained extensive experience in the field of human rights in Russia, taught in different positions at the Higher School of Economics, and worked on various projects at the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences.