Anton Shekhovtsov

Dr. Anton Shekhovtsov is Visiting Senior Fellow at the Department of International Relations of the Central European University (Austria) and Director of the Centre for Democratic Integrity (Austria). He holds a PhD from University College London (UK), and held visiting postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Northampton (UK), Institute for Human Sciences (Austria), New Europe College (Romania), Legatum Institute (UK), Uppsala University (Sweden), and Swedish Institute of International Affairs (Austria). Shekhovtsov is the author of the books New Radical Right-Wing Parties in European Democracies (2011), Russia and the Western Far Right: Tango Noir (2017), and Russian Political Warfare (2023). Shekhovtsov also published numerous op-eds in international media, and academic articles in Journal of Democracy, Russian Politics and Law, Europe-Asia Studies, Nationalities Papers, Patterns of Prejudice, and Osteuropa, among others.