Vladimir Zhdanov

Vladimir Zhdanov holds a master’s degree in Public Administration from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He also holds a Russian degree (Candidate of Sciences) in History, which was conferred on him for a dissertation devoted to the analysis of Western perceptions of Soviet economic policy, and an American doctoral degree in Political Science from the UMass-Amherst for his dissertation «Asymmetrical Devolution: Comparative Analysis of Italian and Spanish Regional Reforms». He was a Copeland Fellow at Amherst College and the recipient of the USIA Graduate Fellowship. For several years Dr. Zhdanov taught the courses in Comparative Politics, World Politics and Russian Politics at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

His recent publications include:
Post-Authoritarian Devolution: The Case of the First Italian Republic. Journal of Economic Sociology. 2017, no 1, p. 110-131.
Испания: Исторические предпосылки «Государства автономий» [Spain: The Historical Premises of ‘The State of Autonomies’]. Новая и новейшая история [Modern and Current History]. 2017, no. 3, p. 39-49.
Строительство поставторитарной государственности: Испания (1976–1982) [The Building of Post-Authoritarian Stateness: Spain, 1976–1982]. Общественные науки и современность [Social Sciences and Contemporary World]. 2017, no. 2, p. 76-90.
Исторические предпосылки Северной Лиги [The Historical Premises of the Northern League]. Новая и новейшая история [Modern and Current History]. 2019, no. 2, p. 50-59.

• American Politics and Policies
• Grand Strategy
• Nationalism and Nation-Building