Dr. rer. soc. Susan Stewart

Research Division: Eastern Europe, Eurasia
Senior Associate

susan.stewart(at)swp-berlin.org

phone:+49 30 88007-466

2005-2007 Lecturer at the Chair for Political Science and Contemporary History, Mannheim University

2004 Doctoral degree in Political Science, Mannheim University

1997-2005 Research Associate at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research

Areas of Expertise:

Russian Federation, Ukraine, EU Eastern Partnership

focus on Ukrainian domestic and foreign policy, and EU-Russian relations. Special topics are the development of civil society in Eastern Europe, promotion of democracy, and the role of human rights in foreign policy.

SWP Publications (selection):

Susan Stewart

Fundamental Attitudes of the Russian Political Elite

Law, Truth, Public Welfare and Violence

SWP Research Paper 2017/RP 07, June 2017, 33 Pages

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Steffen Halling, Susan Stewart

“Deoligarchisation” in Ukraine

Promising Visions, Murky Realities

SWP Comments 2016/C 51, December 2016, 8 Pages

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Susan Stewart

The Future of the Minsk Agreements

Press for Implementation and Support Sanctions

SWP Comments 2016/C 14, March 2016, 4 Pages

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Susan Stewart

The Rule of Law in Contemporary Ukraine

Widespread Elite Failure Puts Reforms at Risk

SWP Comments 2016/C 10, February 2016, 8 Pages

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Steffen Halling, Susan Stewart

Identity and Violence in Ukraine

Societal Developments since the Maidan Protests

SWP Comments 2015/C 19, March 2015, 7 Pages

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External Publications (selection):

Susan Stewart, Jan Matti Dollbaum

Civil Society Development in Russia and Ukraine: Diverging Paths

in: Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Volume 50, Issue 3, September 2017, Pages 207-220

Susan Stewart

Power Relations Meet Domestic Structures: Russia and Ukraine

In: Anne Wetzel and Jan Orbie (eds.), The Substance of EU Democracy Promotion. Concepts and Cases, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, pp. 117-133.

Susan Stewart

Germany

in National Perspectives on Russia: European Foreign Policy in the Making? (2013). Edited by Maxine David, Jackie Gower and Hiski Haukkala. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 13-29.

Susan Stewart

Public Procurement Reform in Ukraine: The Implications of Neopatrimonialism for External Actors

in: Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, Vol. 21, No. 2, Spring 2013, Special Issue on Ukraine: Politics and Society, 197-214.

Margarete Klein, Andrea Schmitz, Hans-Henning Schröder, Susan Stewart (eds.)

Presidents, Oligarchs and Democrats: Forms of Rule in the Post-Soviet Space

Farnham: Ashgate, 2012

In the Media/ »Point of View« (selection):

Susan Stewart

Council of Europe Can Do without Russia

In light of human rights violations in Crimea and a new law allowing Russia to ignore rulings of the European Court of Human Rights, there is no justification for the country to remain in the Council of Europe, writes Susan Stewart.

Point of View, May 2016