Anton Volodymyrovych Shekhovtsov (; ; born 1978) is a Ukrainian political scientist, academic and writer. He is known for his writings on the European radical right and in particular its connections to

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. He is the editor of the ''Explorations of the Far Right'' book series at ''ibidem-Verlag'' and is member of the board of the open access journal ''Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies''.

Education

Shekhovtsov was born in 1978 in

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, then in the

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. He studied English philology at the Sevastopol National Technical University between 1995 and 2000, going on to teach business English at the European University in Kyiv between 2000 until 2002. He returned to his alma mater to complete an aspirantura in Political Science between 2006 and 2009, and lectured there until 2010.

Academic Career

Between 2010 and 2012 Shekhovtsov had two stints as a visiting fellow researcher at the

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, as part of the Radicalism and New Media Research Group. He then went on to complete a PhD in Slavonic and East European studies at

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between 2013 and 2017. 2020 he founded with

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(

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) the ''Centre for Democratic Integrity'' to "monitor and analyse attempts of authoritarian regimes based on illiberal value systems to wield malign influence in Europe". Currently he is associated researcher at the Research Center for the History of Transformation in Vienna and visiting professor at the Department of International Relations of the Central European University in Vienna.

Works

Shekhovtsov's works have been featured on/at ''

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' and the

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Bibliography

*''Radical Russian Nationalism: Structures, Ideas, Persons'' (2009) with and Galina Kozhevnikova * ''New Radical Right-Wing Parties in European Democracies: Determinants of Electoral Support'' (2011) *''White Power Music: Scenes of Extreme-Right Cultural Resistance'' (2012) with Paul Jackson *''The Postwar Anglo-American Far Right: A Special Relationship of Hate'' (2014) with Paul Jackson * ''Russia and the Western Far Right: Tango Noir'' (2017) * ''The Rise and Fall of a Polish Agent of the Kremlin Influence: The Case of Janusz Niedźwiecki'' (2022)

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