Home » Our faculty » MGIMO Faculty » Kharitonova Oxana Oxana Kharitonova Dr. Oxana Kharitonova joined the School of Political Science at MGIMO University as a PhD student in 1991. Since 1995 she has taught at the Department of Comparative Politics where currently holds the post of Associate Professor. She speaks English and German. Education 1995 — PhD in Political Science Thesis titled «Political transformation of the USSR: democratization of the political system during perestroika» (advisor — prof. Dmiti V. Olshanski) 1991–1994 — Post-graduate student, Department of Political Science, MGIMO M.A.Global Development and Social Justice (St. John’s University) Research interests comparative politics and government political regimes and political regime changes democratization political institutions Recent research projects supported by the Russian Foundation for Humanities (RFH): 2016–2018 — Political Regimes for Divided Societies under Conditions of Globalization (currently involved as Head of a research team) Selected publications Kharitonova O.G. METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS OF STUDYING THE POST-SOVIET REGIME CHANGES in Eurasian States Socio-Economic and Political Processes. New Delhi, 2017. P. 31-48. (in English) Kharitonova O.G. Semi-presidentialism: Russian style in World Focus. 2017. №1 (445). P. 56-64. (in English) Kharitonova O.G. Ethnic wars and post-conflict democracy in Politicheskaya Nauka (Political Science (RU), 2016, N 1. P. 9-24. (in Russian) Kharitonova O.G. Religion and Democracy, The usefulness of the Catholic experience in Islam v sovremennom mire (Islam in the modern world), 2016. Vol. 12. N.1, P. 163-178. (in Russian) Kharitonova O.G. What do we know about coup d’etat as a regime changing mode in Politicheskaya Nauka (Political Science (RU), 2015. N 2. P. 191-211 (in Russian) Kharitonova O.G. Post-Soviet Constitutions. Do only institutions matter? In Politicheskaya Nauka (Political Science (RU), 2014, N. 1, p. 69-93. (in Russian) Kharitonova O.G. Color revolutions in the context of democratization theories. In Politicheskaya Nauka (Political Science (RU), 2014, N. 3, p. 184-210 (in Russian) Kharitonova O.G. POST-SOVIET POLITICAL REGIMES AND INSTITUTIONS in Eurasian politics Ideas, institutions and External relations. New Delhi, 2013. P. 39-58. Membership of professional bodies: Russian Political Science Association (RPSA) Russian International Studies Association (RISA) International Political Science Association (IPSA) European International Science Association (EISA) Courses taught: Comparative Politics (undergraduate level) Presidential and parliamentary systems (undergraduate level) Techniques and «technologies» of power: political regimes and regime changes (undergraduate level) Introduction into statistical analysis (undergraduate level) Expert analysis of political processes (graduate level) Comparative Politics Introduction to Political Science Vk