Taras Kuzio

Taras Kuzio (* 1958 in Halifax ( West Yorkshire ) ) is a Ukrainian- British political scientist who specializes in Ukrainian politics.

Life

Taras Kuzio received a B. A. in Economics at the University of Sussex and an MA in " Soviet Studies " at the University of London. He received his doctorate in political science at the University of Birmingham and was afterwards Fellow at Yale University.

He represented then the Ukrainian Press Agency in the UK. 1992/93 he worked as a Fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. From 1993 to 1995 he was editor of the "Ukrainian Business Review " and directed the "Ukrainian Business Agency ". From 1995 to 1998 he worked at the " Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies" at the University of Birmingham. In 1996, he worked as a research consultant for the Ukrainian parliament.

In June 1998 he was appointed director of the NATO Information and Documentation Centre in Kyiv. For the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, he was an observer at the parliamentary elections in 1998 and 2002 and for the UN organization National Democratic Institute in the presidential election in Ukraine in 2004.

2004 to 2006 he had a contract as a visiting professor at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies ( IERES ) of the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. He was also a Visiting Fellow of the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation at the Center for Transatlantic Relations, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, in Washington DC

Kuzio worked for various think tanks, writes for the Eurasian Daily Monitor of the Jamestown Foundation, Oxford Analytica and Jane 's Information Group and has presented at the United States Congress.

Writings (selection )

• Russia, Crimea, Ukraine. Triangle of conflict. Research Institute for the Study of Conflict and Terrorism, London 1994. Ukraine - Crimea - Russia. Triangle of conflict. Ibidem -Verlag, Stuttgart 2007 (1994)