Alexandra Goujon (born 1 June 1972) is a

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political scientist Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and la ...

. She is a professor of political science at the

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. She specializes in political conflict and regime change in

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, particularly

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and

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Education and early work

Goujon attended the

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and the

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, where she studied economic and social administration. She obtained an MA degree in political science in 1994, also at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. She then competed one year of education in Irkutsk, and in 1996 earned a graduate studies degree ( fr) in comparative studies on democratic transition in Eastern Europe from

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. In 2001, Goujon earned a doctorate in political science under the direction of Dominique Colas ( fr). Her thesis was entitled ''Nationalisme et démocratie à la fin de l'URSS: les fronts populaires d'Ukraine et de Biélorussie (1988-1991)'' (Nationalism and democracy at the end of the USSR: the popular fronts of Ukraine and Belarus 1988-1991).

Career

Goujon is a political science professor at The

, and also holds appointments at Sciences Po in Paris and Dijon. In 2009, Goujon published the book ''Révolutions politiques et identitaires en Ukraine et en Biélorussie (1988-2008)'' which arose from her doctoral dissertation. The academic Anna Colin Lebedev wrote that ''Révolutions politiques et identitaires'' gave a complete and precise presentation of the institutional and political evolution of Ukraine and Belarus, from the last years of the USSR. The book uses the political and geographic closeness of the two countries to study their comparative political evolutions. Andrei Stsiapanau wrote that Alexandra Goujon uses works on the USSR and its major satellites for periods that have been under-researched. Goujon is a regular contributor to new outlets including

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, RTL,

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, and ''

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''.

Selected works

*''Parlons biélorussien: langue et culture'', with Virginie Symaniec, L'Harmattan, 2000 () *''Chroniques sur la Biélorussie contemporaine'', with Virginie Symaniec and Jean-Charles, 2001 () *''Révolutions politiques et identitaires en Ukraine et en Biélorussie (1988-2008)'', Belin, 2009. () *''Les démocraties: institutions, fonctionnements et défilés'', Armand Colin, 2015. () *''Les partis politiques, ateliers de la démocratie'', with Dominique Andolfatto, Éditions de l'Université de Bruxelles, 2016. ()

References

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