Academic Awards, Distinctions and Services
- Professeur invité at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Lille 2, 2006-07.
- Associate Fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, from November 2005.
- Chair of the Advisory Board of the Eurasian Political Studies Network (EPSN), from February 2005.
- Core Faculty and later director for ReSET (Regional Seminar for excellence in Teaching) projects funded by the Higher education Support Program of the Open Society Institute, Budapest, organised by EPSN in 2003-2009: ‘Regional Seminar for Excellence in Teaching: Transformation of the Political Institutions and Political Processes in Post-Soviet States‘.
- Membership of the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences, conferred September 2002.
- Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham, from 1 September 1997 to 30 September 2000; suspended for period of external
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