Elena Korosteleva, Professor of International Politics at the School of Politics and International Relations and a leading specialist in European \u2018neighbourhood affairs\u2019, has been a prominent expert voice in global media following the recent civil unrest in the Republic of Belarus.<\/p>\n
Following the country\u2019s controversial presidential election outcome, the republic has been the focus of headlines worldwide.<\/p>\n
Professor Korosteleva, who is also Principal Investigator for the\u00a0COMPASS Project<\/a>\u00a0at Kent, has recently appeared on\u00a0BBC News<\/a>, Al Jazeera,\u00a0BBC Radio 4\u2019s \u2018World at One\u2019<\/a>,\u00a0Channel 4 News<\/a> , ITV News<\/a> and BBC Radio Scotland – Lunch Time Live<\/a> (1.15.55 min) providing her expert insights into the nation\u2019s troubled political situation.<\/p>\n Her research, supported by the UK government through the\u00a0Global Challenges Research Fund<\/a>\u00a0has established \u2018regional hubs of excellence\u2019 at universities in the Eastern Neighbourhood and Central Asia to create research partners for the post-Brexit UK. The insights gained from this research are now proven as essential in understanding modern regional and global politics.<\/p>\n Commenting on her research, Professor Korosteleva notes, \u201cWith a rapidly changing and highly uncertain world, we need specialists who understand international affairs and I would say it is probably the most interesting time in the last 30 years to be studying Politics and International Relations\u201d.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Please see original post here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Elena Korosteleva, Professor of International Politics at the School of Politics and International Relations and a leading specialist in European \u2018neighbourhood affairs\u2019, has been a … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51111,"featured_media":2076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[131001,131000],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2075"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2153,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075\/revisions\/2153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}