doc. Mgr. Aliaksei Kazharski, Ph.D.

Aliaksei Kazharski received his PhD in European Studies and Policies from Comenius University in Bratislava in 2015. He has worked at Charles University in Prague since 2017. He has also been a visiting researcher at the Universities of Oslo, Tartu , Vienna , Malmö, Uppsala, the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna (IWM),  and the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. Since 2019 he has also been a fellow at Visegrád Insight. Kazharski’s research interests have included Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, regionalism, identity in international relations, critical approaches to security and terrorism studies. He is the author of two monographs: Eurasian Integration and the Russian World. Regionalism as an Identitary Enterprise (CEUPress 2019) and Central Europe Thirty Years after the Fall of Communism. A Return to the Margin? (Rowman&Littlefield 2022, winner of the International Studies Association, Global International Relations Section 2022-2023 Book Award).

Regionalismus a regionální integrace, kritická geopolitika, teorie mezinárodních vztahů, identita a nacionalismus, Visegrádská čtyřka

Monografie

• KAZHARSKI, Aliaksei. Eurasian Integration and the Russian World: Regionalism as an Identitary Enterprise. 1st ed vyd. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2019. 208 s. ISBN 978-963-386-285-8.
• KAZHARSKI, Aliaksei. Central Europe Thirty Years after the Fall of Communism. 1 vyd. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2022. 226 s. ISBN 978-1-4985-9961-0.

Kapitoly v monografiích

• KAZHARSKI, Aliaksei - LOZKA, Katsiaryna. Belarus-Russia relations: Identity as product and factor. In: MOSHES, Arkady - NIZHNIKAU, Ryhor. Russian Policy toward Belarus after 2020: At a Turning Point?. 1st vyd. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2023, s. 11-28. ISBN 978-1-66692-597-5.
• KAZHARSKI, Aliaksei - KULAKEVICH, Tatsiana - LOZKA, Katsiaryna. Belarus-Ukraine relations. In: SCHÄFFER, Sebastian. Ukraine in Central and Eastern Europe: Kyiv's Foreign Affairs and the International Relations of the Post-Communist Region. 1st vyd. Stuttgart: Ibidem Verlag, 2023, s. 45-62. ISBN 978-3-8382-1615-7.
• KAZHARSKI, Aliaksei. Die „Westsplainers“ erklären. In: KONARZEWSKA, Aleksandra - SCHAHADAT, Schamma - WELLER, Nina. „Alles ist teurer als Ukrainisches Leben.“ Texte über Westsplaining und den Krieg. 1 vyd. Berlin: edition.fotoTAPETA, 2023, s. 182-189. ISBN 978-3-949262-29-6.
• KAZHARSKI, Aliaksei. Aliaksei Kazharski on Far-Right Populism in Central and Eastern Europe and Russia. In: LARUELLE, Marlene. Conversations on Illiberalism. Interviews with 50 scholars. 1st vyd. Washington, D.C.: George Washington University, 2023, s. 73-77. ISBN 979-8-9865831-0-5.
• KAZHARSKI, Aliaksei - PIERSON-LYZHINA, Ekaterina. "The Lithuanians Have Our Back": Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya's Office and the United Transitional Cabinet in the Face of Fragmented Western Support. In: MARTON, Péter. The Palgrave Handbook of Non-State Actors in East-West Relations. 1 vyd. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, s. 473-487. ISBN 978-3-031-40545-7.
• KAZHARSKI, Aliaksei. Towards Decentring Comparisons: Overcoming the Uniqueness Myth in Russian Studies. In: KURNYSHOVA, Yuliia - MAKARYCHEV, Andrey. Studying Russia and its Wars: Academic Stocktaking in Times of Insecurity. 1 vyd. Leiden: Brill, 2026, s. 130-150. ISBN 978-90-04-74735-7.
• KAZHARSKI, Aliaksei. Introduction: Writing about Belarus during “Interesting” Times. In: KAZHARSKI, Aliaksei. Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Belarus. 1 vyd. Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK: Routledge, 2026, s. 1-6. ISBN 978-1-03-281820-7.
• KAZHARSKI, Aliaksei - LOZKA, Katsiaryna. The Impact of Russia's War against Ukraine on Belarus: Geopolitics, Regime Survival, and Societal Responses. In: KAZHARSKI, Aliaksei. Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Belarus. 1 vyd. Abingdon: Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis, 2026, s. 62-74. ISBN 978-1-03-281820-7.
• KAZHARSKI, Aliaksei - LOZKA, Katsiaryna - RUDNIK, Alesia. Belarus’ Pro-Democracy Movement as a Public Diplomacy Actor: Identities and International Engagement. In: POPKOVA, Anna. Disruption and Dissent in Public Diplomacy. 1 vyd. Cham: Springer Nature, 2025, s. 121-140. ISBN 978-3-031-90954-2.
• KAZHARSKI, Aliaksei. The Jagiellonian Moment and Beyond: Identities and Geopolitics in Poland After 2022. In: KAZHARSKI, Aliaksei - MAKARYCHEV, Andrey. “Eastern Europe” and War. A New Kidnapping?. 1 vyd. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2026, s. 209-232. ISBN 978-963-386-876-8.
• KAZHARSKI, Aliaksei - MAKARYCHEV, Andrey. Introduction: Kidnapping Europe in the Twenty-first Century. In: KAZHARSKI, Aliaksei - MAKARYCHEV, Andrey. “Eastern Europe” and War. A New Kidnapping?. 1 vyd. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2026, s. 9-21. ISBN 978-963-386-876-8.
• KAZHARSKI, Aliaksei. Escaping the Past vs. Escaping to the Past. The Old-New Spatiotemporalities of Central and Eastern Europe. In: BASSIN, Mark - RUDLING, Anders. Re-Imagining Space and Society in Central and Eastern Europe: New Geographies of Politics, History and Culture. 1 vyd. Berlin: De Gruyter Brill, 2026, s. 214-239. ISBN 978-3-11-914844-3.
• GRANČAYOVÁ, Michaela - KAZHARSKI, Aliaksei - TABOSA, Clarissa. Religion and social progressivism in Poland and Slovakia: toward (de)securitization?. In: MÁTÉ-TÓTH, András - POVEDÁK, Kinga. Religion as Securitization in Central and Eastern Europe. 1 vyd. New York: Routledge, 2025, s. 135-161. ISBN 978-1-03-246215-8.
• GRANČAYOVÁ, Michaela - KAZHARSKI, Aliaksei. ‘Pumpkins Only for the Dictator’: Belarus Protests and the Semiotic Strategies of Gendered Resistance. In: BOGETIĆ, Ksenija. Language, Gender and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe. 1 vyd. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025, s. 347-365. ISBN 978-3-031-84527-7.
• GRANČAYOVÁ, Michaela - KAZHARSKI, Aliaksei. Religion and Civic Values in Slovakia: A Secular State?. In: RAMET, Sabrina P. - ÐORĐEVIĆ, Vladimir - HASSENSTAB, Christine Marie. Civic and Uncivic Values in Slovakia: Culture, Media, Gender, and Ethnic Minorities. 1 vyd. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025, s. 79-100. ISBN 978-3-031-93573-2.

Články

• KAZHARSKI, Aliaksei. Civilizations as Ontological Security?: Stories of the Russian Trauma. Problems of Post-Communism. 2020, 67(1), 24-36. ISSN 1075-8216. UT-WOS link
• KAZHARSKI, Aliaksei. Frontiers of hatred? A study of right-wing populist strategies in Slovakia. European Politics and Society. 2019, 20(4), 393-405. ISSN 2374-5118.
• KAZHARSKI, Aliaksei. Two kinds of small? The 'EU core' in Slovak and Czech geopolitical imagination. Journal of Contemporary European Studies. 2019, 27(4), 424-438. ISSN 1478-2804. UT-WOS link
• KAZHARSKI, Aliaksei. On “Westsplaining,” Realism, and Technologies of the Self: A Foucauldian Reading of the Realist Commentary on Ukraine. Journal of Regional Security. 2024, 19(1), 77-96. ISSN 2217-995X.
• KAZHARSKI, Aliaksei. An ad hoc Regionalism? The Visegrád Four in the "Post-Liberal" Age. Polity. 2020, 52(2), 250-272. ISSN 0032-3497. UT-WOS link
• KAZHARSKI, Aliaksei - MAKARYCHEV, Andrey. Introduction to the Special Issue. Mezinárodní vztahy. 2020, 55(4), 5-10. ISSN 0323-1844. UT-WOS link
• KAZHARSKI, Aliaksei - MACALOVÁ, Silvia. Democracies: "sovereign" and "illiberal". The Russian-hungarian game of adjectives and its implications for regional security. Journal of Regional Security. 2020, 15(2), 235-262. ISSN 2217-995X.
• KAZHARSKI, Aliaksei - KUBOVÁ, Monika. Belarus as a liminal space for Russia's ontological security before and after the 2020 protests. New Perspectives. 2021, 29(3), 249-271. ISSN 2336-825X. UT-WOS link
• KAZHARSKI, Aliaksei. Belarus' new political nation? 2020 anti-authoritarian protests as identity building. New Perspectives. 2021, 29(1), 69-79. ISSN 2336-825X. UT-WOS link
• KAZHARSKI, Aliaksei. Neonationalism and the metropolitan "coffee house" in Central Europe. Political Geography. 2021, 89(August), 1-3. ISSN 0962-6298. UT-WOS link
• KAZHARSKI, Aliaksei - MAKARYCHEV, Andrey. Belarus, Russia, and the escape from geopolitics. Political Geography. 2021, 89(August), 1-3. ISSN 0962-6298. UT-WOS link
• KAZHARSKI, Aliaksei - MAKARYCHEV, Andrey. Russia's Vaccine Diplomacy in Central Europe: Between a Political Campaign and a Business Project. Mezinárodní vztahy. 2021, 56(4), 131-146. ISSN 0323-1844. UT-WOS link
• KAZHARSKI, Aliaksei. Do ostriches live in Central Europe?: Normalizing the Russian attack on Ukraine in the Visegrád Four. Journal of Regional Security. 2023, 18(1), 39-46. ISSN 2217-995X.
• KAZHARSKI, Aliaksei. An Authoritarian Spectacle: Visual Biopolitics and the Dramaturgy of the Poland-Belarus Border Migration Crisis. Visual Anthropology. 2023, 36(4), 373-396. ISSN 0894-9468. UT-WOS link
• KAZHARSKI, Aliaksei. "To Whom the Sirens Wail." Poland's Post-2022 Geopolitical Debates on Central and "Eastern Europe". Alternatives. 2024, 49(2), 100-114. ISSN 0304-3754. UT-WOS link
• KAZHARSKI, Aliaksei. Central Europe: Racialized or Elusive?. Czech Journal of International Relations. 2023, 58(3), 162-170. ISSN 2788-2985.
• KAZHARSKI, Aliaksei - MAKARYCHEV, Andrey. "Eastern Europe" and War. Introduction to the Special Issue. Alternatives. 2024, 49(2), 47-51. ISSN 0304-3754. UT-WOS link
• KAZHARSKI, Aliaksei. Alicja Curanović. The Sense of Mission in Russian Foreign Policy: Destined for Greatness! London: Routledge & CRC Press, 248 p. Alternatives. 2025, 20(2), 529-531. ISSN 0304-3754. UT-WOS link
• KAZHARSKI, Aliaksei. The Toxic Spell of ‘Imperial knowledge’ and Challenges of Decolonization. Warsaw East European Review. 2024, XIII(1), 15-17. ISSN 2299-2421.
• KAZHARSKI, Aliaksei. Rastlumačyc "uestsplejnerau": Ci moža zachodni dasledčyk byc ekspertam pa Centralna-Uschodnjaj Europe?. Topos. 2024, 53(2), 145-155. ISSN 1815-0047.
• KAZHARSKI, Aliaksei. History meets the 'mafia state'? Hungary and the (de)securitisation of built cultural heritage in Slovakia. International Journal of Heritage Studies. 2025, 31(1), 36-51. ISSN 1352-7258. UT-WOS link
• KAZHARSKI, Aliaksei - MAKARYCHEV, Andrey. Critical heritage studies and post-imperial insecurities in central and Baltic Europe. International Journal of Heritage Studies. 2025, 31(1), 1-3. ISSN 1352-7258. UT-WOS link
• KAZHARSKI, Aliaksei. The politics of regional cooperation and the impact on the European Union. A study of Nordic Cooperation and the Visegrad Group. Journal of Contemporary European Studies. 2025, 33(1), 309-310. ISSN 1478-2804. UT-WOS link
• KAZHARSKI, Aliaksei - GRANČAYOVÁ, Michaela - YIMENU, Bizuneh. Peripheralities and Their Effects: A Cross-Regional Reflection on Central and Eastern Europe and the Middle East and North Africa. Alternatives. 2026, 2026(51), 184-196. ISSN 0304-3754. UT-WOS link
• KAZHARSKI, Aliaksei. On the nexūs between populism and geopolitical rhetorics: Evidence from the Visegrád Four. Intersections. 2025, 11(3), 20-38. ISSN 2416-089X. UT-WOS link
• KAZHARSKI, Aliaksei - MONSPORTOVÁ, Daniela. The effects of Ukraine’s communication strategy in the Visegrad Four and the “Global South.” Understanding the target audiences and limits. Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe. 2026, 34(1), 213-227. ISSN 2573-9638.
• KAZHARSKI, Aliaksei. Rick Fawn. Castle on a Hill. The Visegrad Group, regionalism, and the remaking of Europe. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. 337 p. Journal of Contemporary European Studies. 2026, 34(3), 919-920. ISSN 1478-2804. UT-WOS link
• GRANCAYOVA, Michaela - KAZHARSKI, Aliaksei. 'The Slovakebab': Anti-Islam Agenda in Slovak Parliamentary Elections and Beyond. Politologický časopis. 2020, 27(3), 259-277. ISSN 1211-3247. UT-WOS link
• GOLIANOVÁ, Veronika - KAZHARSKI, Aliaksei. 'The Unsolid' Pro-Kremlin Narratives in Slovak Cultural and Educational Institutions. RUSI Journal. 2020, 165(4), 10-21. ISSN 0307-1847. UT-WOS link
• GRANČAYOVÁ, Michaela - KAZHARSKI, Aliaksei. Authoritarian Hegemonic Masculinities and Gendered Rhetorics of the Protest: 2020 Belarus Awakening and the Arab Spring in Egypt. Communist and Post-Communist Studies. 2023, 56(3), 47-71. ISSN 0967-067X. UT-WOS link
• ČANJI, Danijela - KAZHARSKI, Aliaksei. When the "subaltern empire" speaks. On recognition, Eurasian integration, and the Russo-Georgian war. Eurasian Geography and Economics. 2023, 64(5), 561-588. ISSN 1538-7216. UT-WOS link
• GORKEM, Altinors - PRIYA, Chacko - MIRI, Davidson - KAZHARSKI, Aliaksei - SIVAMOHAN, Valluvan - CHENCHEN, Zhang. The Uses and Abuses of the Anti-Colonial in Global Reactionary Politics. International Political Sociology. 2026, 20(2), 1-26. ISSN 1749-5679. UT-WOS link

Příspěvky v konferenčních sbornících

.Challenges and opportunities for EU heritage diplomacy in Ukraine (HER-UKR). Erasmus + Jean Monnet Network. 2023-2026.

Contested Heritage. A multilevel analysis of the securitization of heritage and its challenges for EU and UN actorness (COHERE)