Andrew Wilson (born 1961) is a British

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

and political scientist specializing in

Eastern Europe Eastern Europe is a subregion of the European continent. As a largely ambiguous term, it has a wide range of geopolitical, geographical, ethnic, cultural, and socio-economic connotations. The vast majority of the region is covered by Russia, whic ...

, particularly

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

. He is a Senior Policy Fellow at the

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, and Professor in Ukrainian studies at the

School of Slavonic and East European Studies The UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES ) is a school of University College London (UCL) specializing in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, Russia and Eurasia. It teaches a range of subjects, including the history ...

University College London , mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £143 million (2020) , budget = ...

. He wrote ''The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation'' and ''Virtual Politics: Faking Democracy in the Post-Soviet World''. Wilson is a member of the Ukraine Today media organization's International Supervisory Council. He was born in

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Works

*''Ukraine: Perestroika to Independence'' (with Taras Kuzio), New York, St. Martin's Press, 1994, xiv, 260p. *''Ukrainian Nationalism in the 1990s: A Minority Faith'', Cambridge University Press, 1996, xvii, 300p. Can be searched a
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* ''The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation'',

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, 2000, xviii, 366p. , 2nd edition 2002 , 3rd edition 2009 , 4th edition 2015 *''Virtual Politics: Faking Democracy in the Post-Soviet World'', Yale University Press, 2005, *''Ukraine's Orange Revolution'', Yale University Press, 2005, *''Belarus: The Last European Dictatorship'', Yale University Press, 2012, *''Ukraine Crisis: What it Means for the West'', Yale University Press, 2014,

References

1961 births Living people Slavists Ukrainianists Historians of Ukraine {{England-historian-stub