Research Interests
Russian politics; post-communist politics; political economy of Russia, especially the influence of international economy on Russia; state and institution buidling in Russia;
Teaching Interests
Professional Activities
Committee
- 2002 Post-Soviet Politics, Ashgate Publishers, 2002 to date, *
- 2001 National Advisory Committee, Europe-Asia Studies, 2001 to date, *
- 2000 British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies, 2000-2002, *
Association
- 2001 Vice president, 2008-2009; President, 2010-2012; Secretary 2012-, Irish Association for Russian and East European Studies
- 1991 Politics and International Relations Subject stream convenor, 2000-2002, Executive committee member, 2000-2, Treasurer, 2002-7, British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies
Employment
- 1995 University of Essex - Lecturer
- 1992 University of York - Lecturer
Education
- 1993 University of Essex - PhD
- 1988 University of Essex - MA
- 1987 Portsmouth Polytechnic - BA
Language
- Russian
Publications
Book
Contemporary Russian Politics
Robinson, Neil
Russia: A state of uncertainty
Robinson N.
Russia: A State of Uncertainty
DOI: 10.4324/9780203402887
Post-Communist Politics
Hendrson, K; Robinson, N
Book Chapter
Russian patrimonial capitalism and the international financial crisis
Robinson, Neil
The International Economic Crisis and the Post-Soviet States
Natural states and the development of democracy
Robinson, N.
Evolution. Development within big history, evolutionary and world-system paradigms
The edges of Europe: conflict and resistance in the eastern marches and the problematic nature of a wider Europe
Robinson, N
New Regionalism and the Left in Europe
Why not more conflict in the former USSR? Russia and Central Asia as a zone of relative peace?
Robinson, N
Conflicts in the Former USSR
Conclusion: the political dysfunctions of Russian capitalism
Neil Robinson
The political economy of Russia
The contexts of Russia's political economy: Soviet legacies and post-Soviet policies
Neil Robinson
The Political Economy of Russia
Introduction: the political problems of Russian capitalism
Neil Robinson
The Political Economy of Russia
The Soviet Gulag
Robinson, N
Encyclopedia of Human Rights
Russia: trends in human rights
Robinson, N.
Encyclopedia of Human Rights
Introduction
Landman, T; Robinson, N
The Sage handbook of comparative politics,
Why not more conflict in the former USSR?: Russia and Central Asia as a zone of relative peace
Robinson N.
Conflict In The Former Ussr
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511980565.007
Russia: limiting the impact of crisis in a post-communist transitional economy
Robinson, N
Power and politics after financial crises: rethinking foreign opportunism in emerging markets
The 'normalization' of Russian politics and Europe
Robinson, N
Russia and Europe: Building partnership?
The ‘normalization’ of Russian Politics and Europe
Robinson N.
Russia and Europe in the Twenty-First Century: An Uneasy Partnership
DOI: 10.7135/UPO9781843317548.005
State building and international politics: the emergence of a 'new' problem and agenda
Robinson, N
State-building. Theory and practice
State-building and international politics: The emergence of a 'new' problem and agenda
Robinson N.
State-Building: Theory and Practice
DOI: 10.4324/9780203964712
State-building and international politics The emergence of a 'new' problem and agenda
Robinson, N
State-building. Theory and practice
Social power and post-Soviet economic transformation
Robinson, N
Political culture and civil society in the Black Sea region
The global economy, reform and crisis in Russia
Robinson, N
The political economy of financial crises. Volume 2
The post-Soviet space
Robinson, N
The regional politics of development
A fickle benefactor: Russia and the global economy as a resource for change
Robinson, N
Reforging the weakest link: global political economy and post-Soviet change in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus
Global economy and post-Soviet change
Robinson, N
Reforging the weakest link: global political economy and post-Soviet change in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus
Path dependency, global economy and post-communist change
Robinson, N
Reforging the weakest link: global political economy and post-Soviet change in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus
Russian presidents and state power: elections, institutional power and reform in Russia under Yeltsin and Putin
Robinson, N
Russia in transition,
Russian policy towards the conflict in Yugoslavia, 1991-1996
Robinson, N
Inter-Balkan Relations at the End of the Twentieth Century
Bureaucracy
Robinson, N
Encyclopaedia of democratic theory
The presidency: the politics of institutional chaos
Robinson, N
Institutions and political change in Russia
Institutions and change in Russian politics
Robinson, N
Institutions and political change in Russia
Marxism, communism and post-communism
Robinson, N
Marxism and social science
The Commonwealth of Independent States as an international institution
Robinson, N
The CIS handbook
Classifying Russia's party system. The problem of relevance in a time of uncertainty
Robinson, N
Party politics in postcommunist Russia
Corporate interests and the politics of transition in Russia, 1991-1994
Robinson, N
Privatization in Central and Eastern Europe
Have model will travel: Russian and Western reform agendas
Robinson, N
Contemporary Political Studies 1994
Parliamentary politics under Gorbachev: opposition and the failure of socialist pluralism
Robinson, N
The Soviet transition: from Gorbachev to Yeltsin
L'opposizione e il fallimento del pluralismo socialista
Robinson, N
Riformismo o comunismo: il caso dell'URSS
Conference Publication
What is new in new authoritarianism
Neil Robinson
Putin 4.0: Domestic and Foreign Policy Dimensions
Neil Robinson
Fears of Europe: USSR, Russia and European Integration
Neil Robinson
Workshop on Global Populism
Robinson, Neil
International Studies Association Annual Convention
Robinson, Neil
Workshop on Populism and Politics
Robinson, Neil
Political Studies Association (PSA) Annual Conference,
Adshead, M. & Robinson, N.
ISA-ABRI conference
Neil Robinson
Political Studies Association annual conference
Neil Robinson and Maura Adshead
Political Studies Association annual conference
Neil Robinson`
ISA Annual Convention
Neil Robinson
Political Studies Association (PSA) Annual Conference, University of Manchester, 10-12 April
Adshead, M. and Robinson, N.
Irish Social Science Platform Conference, After the Celtic Tiger
Neil Robinson and Maura Adshead
Irish Social Sciences Platform Conference, After the Celtic Tiger,
Adshead, M. and Robinson, N.
Irish Social Sciences Platform Conference, After the Celtic Tiger, 11-12 September
Adshead, M. and Robinson, N.
International Studies Association Annual Convention
Neil Robinson
International Studies Association annual conference
Robinson, N.
Globalisation and the Semi-Periphery
Robinson, N.
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Robinson, N.
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Robinson, N
Political Studies Association annual conference.
N. Robinson.
Political Studies Association annual conference
N. Robinson.
Legality and Ethics in Russian and Soviet Thought
N. Robinson.
Political Studies Association annual conference
N. Robinson.
The Post-Communist Experience
N. Robinson.
Why did Gorbachev fail?
N. Robinson.
Workshop on ¿Democratization in Eastern Europe¿
N. Robinson.
Edited Book
Other Publication
Spooked by none
Neil Robinson
Americas secret empire
Neil Robinson
Imploding societies
Neil Robinson
Dictator and liberator
Neil Robinson
The centre cannot hold
Neil Robinson
Creator of our wisdom
Neil Robinson
Red light for Russia
Neil Robinson
Russophobia in official Russian political discourse
Robinson, Neil
International Studies Association Annual Convention
The Roosevelt effect
Neil Robinson
How do you deal with a troll like Putin?
Robinson, Neil
RTE Brainstorm
Whats next for Putin and Russia?
Robinson, Neil
RTE Brainstorm
Conflict, Crime, and the State in Postcommunist Eurasia
Robinson, N
Political Studies Review
DOI: 10.1177/1478929916666775
A revolution on the Russian revolution
Robinson, N.
The Irish Examiner
Separating fact from fiction in Mother Russia
Robinson, N.
The Irish Examiner
Democracy under siege
Robinson, N
Irish Examiner
At war with Gerry Adams
Robinson, Neil
The Irish Examiner
Lament for a lost mode of transport
Robinson, N
Irish Examiner
Revolution that changed the world
Robinson, Neil
The Irish Examiner
Vladimir Putin, such a vastly overrated leader: We are one tweet away from bad relations
Robinson, Neil
The Journal.ie
Why Vladimir Putin needs a supermajority
Robinson, Neil
RTE Brainstorm
Authoritarian Russia. Analyzing post-Soviet regime changes
Robinson, N
Democratization
DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2015.1091815
Genghis Khan made the most of opportunity to achieve brilliance
Robinson, N
The Irish Examiner
No new answers to age-old questions
Robinson, Neil
The Irish Examiner
Re-examining Economic and Political Reforms in Russia, 1985-2000: Generations, Ideas and Changes
Robinson, N
Political Studies Review
DOI: 10.1177/1478929916649828
Long story behind Scotlands choice Union or independence?
Robinson, Neil
The Irish Examiner,
Holocaust revelations
Robinson, Neil
The Irish Examiner
Gorbachev on the defensive
Robinson, Neil
The Irish Examiner
Spy game a class apart
Robinson, Neil
The Irish Examiner
Brexit wont change Europes influence on UK sovereignty
Robinson, N.
The Irish Examiner
Tragic farce of Soviet science undermined its ideology
Robinson, Neil
The Irish Examiner
Trade deal fightback marks sea change
Robinson, Neil
The Irish Examiner
The common history of state capture
Robinson, Neil
Workshop on State Capture: elites and legality
The power puppeteer
Robinson, Neil
The Irish Examiner
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it
Robinson, Neil
The Irish Examiner
Where now democracy
Robinson, Neil
The Irish Examiner
Black-and-white view of East and West from moral absolutist
Robinson, Neil
The Irish Examiner
The origins of the Irish
Robinson, Neil
The Irish Examiner
A vision of Westminsters future marred by Machiavellian politics
Robinson, Neil
The Irish Examiner
A tale of ten cities
Robinson, Neil
Irish Examiner
H. Goscilo (ed.) Putin as celebrity and cultural icon
Robinson, Neil
Soviet and Post-Soviet Review
State capture and business capture? Political and corporate power under neo-patrimonialism
Robinson, Neil
Institute for Global Law and Policy conference, Harvard Law School
Putin, nationalism and the rhetoric of reaction
Robinson, Neil
British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies, annual conference
Can Russia Modernise? 'Sistema', Power Networks and Informal Governance.
Robinson, N
Slavonic And East European Review
DOI: 10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.92.3.0582
If Kissinger ruled ...
Robinson, Neil
Irish Examiner
The summit
Robinson, Neil
Irish Examiner
A. Ledeneva, Can Russia modernise?
Robinson, Neil
Slavonic and East European Review
Types of natural state and transitions to democracy
Robinson, N.
ISA Annual Convention
Presidents, Oligarchs and Bureaucrats: Forms of Rule in the Post-Soviet Space
Robinson, N.
Political Studies Review
The Politics of Inequality in Russia
Robinson, N
Political Studies Review
DOI: 10.1111/1478-9302.12000_93
The paradoxes of success: Russia and crisis
Robinson, Neil
ISA Annual Convention
Is nation building possible in Central Asia?
Robinson, N.
Irish Association of Russian, Central and East European Studies annual conference
Power and policy in Putins Russia
Robinson, N.
Contemporary European Studies
Defeating Authoritarian Leaders in Postcommunist Countries
Robinson, N
Political Studies Review
DOI: 10.1111/1478-9302.12000_50
Is nation building possible in Central Asia?
Robinson, Neil
Irish Association of Russian, Central and East European Studies annual conference
Moscow, the Fourth Rome: Stalinism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Evolution of Soviet Culture 1931-1941
Robinson, N
Political Studies Review
DOI: 10.1111/1478-9302.12028_97
End of the affair: no more love for the leader
Robinson, N.
Irish Examiner
Soviet-type systems and the development of democracy
Robinson, N.
Globalistics-2013
Wounded Russia striving to find its identity and be great once again
Robinson, Neil
The Irish Examiner
Presidents, Oligarchs and Bureaucrats: Forms of Rule in the Post-Soviet Space
Robinson, N
Political Studies Review
DOI: 10.1111/1478-9302.12028_53
Beginning of the end or end of the beginning? Putin, opposition and regime evolution in Russia
Robinson, N.
Contentious Politics and the non-systemic opposition in Russia
The Russian Public Debt and Financial Meltdowns
Robinson, N
Europe-Asia Studies
DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2012.736684
Flammable Societies: Studies on the Socio-economics of Oil and Gas
Robinson, N
Political Studies Review
The paradoxes of success: Russia and crisis
Robinson, N.
ISA Annual Convention
Moscow, the fourth Rome. Stalinism, cosmopolitanism, and the evolution of Soviet culture, 1931-1941
Robinson, N.
Political Studies Review
The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations
Robinson, N
Political Studies Review
Types of natural state and transitions to democracy
Robinson, Neil
ISA Annual Convention
The paradoxes of success
Robinson, N
COST Workshop on Responses to Crisis in Post-Communist States
Mirrors of the Economy: National Accounts and International Norms in Russia and Beyond
Robinson, N
International Studies Review
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2486.2012.01089.x
Horror of Maos 36m famine hangs over China
Robinson, Neil
The Irish Examiner
Tour de force is a challenge to silence of Spains bloody unresolved past
Robinson, N
The Irish Examiner
Building States and Markets after Communism
Robinson, N
Political Studies Review
DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-9302.2012.00263_4.x
Life of Molotov challenges perception that Stalins henchmen were drones
Robinson, N
The Irish Examiner
The Currency of Power: The IMF and Monetary Reform in Central Asia
Robinson, N
Political Studies Review
DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-9302.2012.00268_2.x
Resisting Patrimonial Capitalism in Russia
Robinson, N
International Politics and Ethnic Conflict Group Conference
Symbols and Legitimacy in Soviet Politics
Robinson, N
Slavonic And East European Review
State Building in Putin's Russia: Policing and Coercion after Communism
Robinson, N
Political Studies Review
DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-9302.2012.00266_16.x
The Soviet Union
Robinson, N
International Encyclopaedia of Political Science
Adapting Neo-patrimonialism to the Study of post-Soviet Political Development
Robinson, N
43rd Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention
Can Russia Compete?
Robinson, N
Patrimonial capitalism and the financial crisis in Russia
Robinson, N
International Studies Association Annual Convention
Regime building versus state building in post-communist Russia: explaining the drive to modernization and its weaknesses
Robinson, N
XII Higher School of Economics International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development
Regime building versus state building in post-communist Russia: towards a theory of Russian political development
Robinson, N
6th ECPR General Conference
Starved of democracy and then starved to death
Robinson, N
The Irish Examiner
Socialist transition
Robinson, N
International Encyclopaedia of Political Science
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Robinson, N
Encyclopedia of Human Rights
Andrei Sakharov
Robinson, N
Encyclopedia of Human Rights
Mikhail Gorbachev
Robinson, N
Encyclopedia of Human Rights
State and conflict in the former-USSR
Robinson, N
Limerick Papers in Politics and Public Administration
State, regime and Russian political development
Robinson, N
Limerick Papers in Politics
Can Putin solve the ex-Soviet state crisis?
Robinson, N
Oxford Analytica
Economy and anti-democracy in Russia
Robinson, N
Essex Papers in Politics and Government, no. 148
The struggle for reform in Russia, 1991-1993: corporatist interests versus 'shock therapy'
Robinson, N
Caledonian Papers in the Social Sciences. International Political Economy Series, no.2
Ideology and perestroika: Western political science explanations of change in the USSR and the absence of a concept
Robinson, N
York Papers in Politics, no.3
The party is sacred to me': Gorbachev and the place of the party in Soviet reform, 1985-1990
Robinson, N
Russian and Soviet Studies Discussion Paper, no.10
The limits of Soviet democracy: the origins and prospects of the Inter-Regional Group
Robinson, N
Essex Papers in Politics and Government, no.70
Review of T.F. Remington (ed.) Politics and the Soviet system, (Macmillan, 1989)
Robinson, N
Slovo - J. Of Contemporary Russian & East European Affa
Peer Reviewed Journal
Populism and political development in hybrid regimes: Russia and the development of official populism
Robinson, N,Milne, S
International Political Science Review
DOI: 10.1177/0192512117697705
Russian Neo-patrimonialism and Putin's "Cultural Turn'
Robinson, N
Europe-Asia Studies
DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2016.1265916
Russia's Response to Crisis: The Paradox of Success
Robinson, N
Europe-Asia Studies
DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2013.779462
Economic and political hybridity: patrimonial capitalism in the post-Soviet sphere
Robinson, N.
Journal of Eurasian Studies
DOI: 10.1016/j.euras.2013.03.003
Institutional factors and Russian political parties: The changing needs of regime consolidation in a neo-patrimonial system
Robinson N.
Journal Of Communist Studies And Transition Politics
Institutional factors and Russian political parties: the changing needs of regime consolidation in a neo-patrimonial system
Neil Robinson
East European Politics
DOI: 10.1080/21599165.2012.685629
Why not more conflict in the former USSR? Russia and Central Asia as a zone of relative peace
Robinson, N,Sussex, M
Conflict In The Former Ussr
Political barriers to economic development in Russia: Obstacles to modernization under Yeltsin and Putin
Robinson N.
International Journal of Development Issues
DOI: 10.1108/14468951111123300
Russian patrimonial capitalism and the international financial crisis
Robinson N.
Journal Of Communist Studies And Transition Politics
DOI: 10.1080/13523279.2011.595155
Russian patrimonial capitalism and the international financial
Robinson, N.
J. Communist Studies And Transitional Politics
August 1998 and the development of Russia's post-communist political economy
Robinson, N
Review Of International Political Economy
DOI: 10.1080/09692290802418161
`Introduction' (to special section on Russia), New Political Economy,
Robinson, N
New Political Economy
The political is personal: Corruption, clientelism, patronage, informal practices and the dynamics of post-communism
Robinson, N
Europe-Asia Studies
DOI: 10.1080/09668130701607177
Russia: Limiting the Impact of Crisis in a Post-Communist Transitional Economy
Robinson, N,Robertson, J
Power And Politics After Financial Crises: Rethinking Foreign Opportunism In Emerging Markets
So what changed? The 1998 financial crisis and Russia's economic and political development
Robinson N.
Demokratizatsiya
DOI: 10.3200/DEMO.15.2.245-260
The politics of partial democracy: stability and instability in Russian politics
Robinson, N
Political Studies Reviews
Vlast' pobeditelei i fiskal'nii krizis: gosudarstvo i ekonomicheskie reformy v Rossii
Robinson, N
Neprikosnovennii Zapas
The myth of equilibrium: winner power, fiscal crisis and Russian economic reform
Robinson, N
Communist And Post-Communist Studies
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-067X(01)00018-6
The economy and prospects for anti-democratic development in Russia
Robinson, N
Europe-Asia Studies
The global economy, reform and crisis in Russia
Robinson, N
Review Of International Political Economy
Classifying Russia's party system. The problem of relevance in a time of uncertainty.
Robinson, N
J. Communist Studies And Transitional Politics
What was Soviet ideology? A comment on Joseph Schull and an alternative
Robinson, N
Political Studies
Soviet ideological discourse and perestroika
Robinson, N
European Journal Of Political Research
From coup to coup to...? The post-communist experience in Russia, 1991-1993.
Robinson, N
Coexistence
Parliamentary politics under Gorbachev: opposition and the failure of socialist pluralism.
Robinson, N
J. Communist Studies
Sign of the times: the last draft of the CPSU Programme and the crisis of party power, 1990-1991.
Robinson, N
Slovo - J. Of Contemporary Russian & East European Affa
Gorbachev and the place of the party in Soviet reform, 1985-1991.
Robinson, N
Soviet Studies