Soroka, George

Dr. Soroka is a Lecturer on Government and Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies at Harvard University. He is presently working on several long-term research projects, including a book examining how the politics of history are used by the Kremlin to justify its present-day foreign policy stances toward Ukraine, Poland and the European Union.

Research interests:

• Post-communist politics (focusing on Russia, Poland and Ukraine)
• Politics of history and moral justifications for political action
• Religion and politics (esp. comparing United States and Western Europe)
• European political parties and the rise of right-wing parties
• Arctic security and Russia’s re-militarization of the Far North
• Comparative democratization
• Regulation of toxic substances in developed countries