Alexander Titov

Russian foreign policy, contemporary Russian history and politics, Intellectual history, Nationalism

My three main areas of research are Russian foreign policy, Russian nationalism in the 20th century, and the political history of the USSR after Stalin. I am currently completing a book on Russian foreign policy since 1991 for Agenda Publishers, and working on a new biography of Nikita Khrushchev for Routledge's Historical Biographies series.
I am a frequent commentator on current affairs, writing for the Conversation, the Independent and the Irish Times, and appearing on the BBC, ABC News, Al Jazeera and France24.

I read Philosophy and Economics for a BA (Hons) and an MA in Legal and Political Theory at University College London (UCL), followed by a PhD on the Russian Eurasianist thinker Lev Gumliev at UCL's School of Slavonic and East European Studies (UCL-SSEES).
I then worked at the University of Birmingham as a research fellow on an AHRC-funded project on the Soviet Union under Khrushchev. This was followed by two lectureships at UCL-SSEES and the University of Leeds, where I taught Russian politics and foreign policy, before joining Queen's University Belfast as Lecturer in Modern European History.