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Staff Profile

Professor Valentina Feklyunina

Professor of International Politics

  • Email: valentina.feklyunina@ncl.ac.uk
  • Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 5290
  • Address: Room 4.08, Henry Daysh Building
    School of Geography, Politics and Sociology
    缅北禁地
    缅北禁地 upon Tyne
    NE1 7RU
Background

Co-Head of Politics (with Dr Maarja Luhiste)

Deputy Head of School of Geography, Politics & Sociology


Qualifications

PhD in Politics, University of Glasgow (2010)


Research interests 

  • Identity and foreign policy;
  • Collective memory and international politics;
  • Identity and soft power;
  • Russian foreign policy.



Research

Research interests 

  • Identity and foreign policy;
  • Collective memory and foreign policy
  • Identity and soft power;
  • Russian foreign policy.


PhD supervision

I welcome applications for PhD supervision in any of the above areas.


Current PhD co-supervision:

Caveney-Holler, Drew (2024-present) 'Memory Proxy Wars: Identifying International Conflict in Local Mnemonic Practice' (Durham University, UK)

Liparteliani, Vladimir (2020-present) 'The Role of Russian and Western Soft Power in the 21st-Century Georgian Nation-Building' (Durham University, UK)


Past PhD co-supervision (completed PhD projects):

Bakalov, Ivan (2020) 'Setting Soft Power in Motion: Tracing the Mechanisms of Russian Soft Power in Ukraine' (BIGSSS: University of Bremen and Jacobs University, Germany)

Buyantueva, Radzhana (2019) 'The Trajectory of LGBT Rights Protest Activity in Russia, 2005-2017' (缅北禁地, UK)

Theys, Sarina (2018) 'The Soft Power of Non-Western Small States: The Cases of Bhutan and Qatar' (缅北禁地, UK)


Teaching

Undergraduate Teaching

POL1032 'Key Concepts in International Politics'


Postgraduate Teaching

POL8064 'Politics of Memory'

  


Publications

  • Articles

    • Feklyunina V, Robertshaw S, Bilsland J. . Post-Soviet Affairs 2025, 41(3), 181-198.
    • Feklyunina V. . Communist and Post-Communist Studies 2025, 58(4), 140-164.
    • Papageorgiou M, Feklyunina V. . European Journal of International Security 2025, Epub ahead of print.
    • Bilsland J, Feklyunina V, Wheeler C. . European Political Science 2023, 22, 228-242.
    • Feklyunina V. . European Journal of International Relations 2016, 22(4), 773-796.
    • Barr M, Feklyunina V, (eds). . Politics 2015, 35(3-4).
    • Barr M, Feklyunina V, Theys S. . Politics 2015, 35(3-4), 213-215.
    • Feklyunina V. . Europe-Asia Studies 2012, 64(3), 449-469.
    • Feklyunina V. . International Politics 2012, 49, 434-448.
    • White S, Feklyunina V. . Europe-Asia Studies 2011, 63(4), 579-602.
    • Feklyunina V, White S. . Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics 2011, 27(3-4), 335-337.
    • Feklyunina V, White S. . Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics 2011, 27(3-4), 385-406.
    • White S, McAllister I, Feklyunina V. . British Journal of Politics and International Relations 2010, 12(3), 344-367.
    • Feklyunina V. . Journal of Contemporary European Research 2008, 4(2), 130-148.
    • Feklyunina V. . Europe-Asia Studies 2008, 60(4), 605 - 629.

  • Authored Book

    • White S, Feklyunina V. . Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

  • Book Chapters

    • Feklyunina V. . In: Sakwa, R; Hale, HE; White, S, ed. Developments in Russian Politics 9. London: Macmillan International Higher Education, 2019, pp.165-179.
    • Feklyunina V, Romanova V. . In: Birchfield V; Young AR, ed. Triangular Diplomacy among the United States, the European Union, and the Russian Federation: Responses to the Crisis in Ukraine. Basingstoke: Springer International Publishing, 2018, pp.143-167.
    • Feklyunina V. . In: Tsygankov, A.P, ed. Routledge Handbook of Russian Foreign Policy. London, UK: Routledge, 2018, pp.5-21.
    • Feklyunina V. . In: Kanet, RE; Freire, MR, ed. Russia and European Security. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Republic of Letters Press, 2012, pp.79-103.
    • Feklyunina V. . In: Taras, R, ed. Russia's Identity in International Relations: Images, Perceptions, Misperceptions. Oxford: Routledge, 2012, pp.91-109.

  • Edited Book

    • Feklyunina V, White S, ed. . London: Routledge, 2013.

  • Editorials

    • Coward M, Grayson K, Chisholm A, Clough E, Feklyunina V, Walton A. . Politics 2016, 36(2), 115-117.
    • Coward M, Grayson K, Chisholm A, Walton A, Clough E, Feklyunina V. . Politics 2016, 36(1), 3-4.
    • Coward M, Grayson K, Barr M, Clough E, Feklyunina V. . Politics 2015, 35(1), 1-2.
    • Feklyunina V. . Politics 2014, 34(2), 125-125.
    • Coward M, Grayson K, Barr M, Clough E, Feklyunina V. . Politics 2013, 33(1), 1-4.
    • Coward M, Grayson K, Barr M, Clough E, Feklyunina V. . Politics 2012, 32(2), 65-68.

  • Reports

    • Feklyunina V. . King's College London and 缅北禁地, 2017. Assessing Russia's Power: A Report.
    • Kuhrt N, Feklyunina V, (eds). . King’s College London and 缅北禁地, 2017.

  • Reviews

    • Feklyunina V. . Slavic Review 2024, 83(2), 408-409.
    • Feklyunina V. . East European Politics 2014, 30(1), 151-152.
    • Feklyunina V. . Central Asian Survey 2013, 32(2), 225-226.

  • Working Paper

    • Feklyunina V, Romanova V. . 2016, Working Paper GTJMCE-2016-1. Available at: http://www.inta.gatech.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/GTJMCE2016-1-Feklyunina&Romanova.pdf.