The author:

Dr. Bo Petersson has been Professor of Political Science at the Department of Global Political Studies at Malmö University, Sweden, since 2011. Previously, he served as lecturer at Uppsala University and professor at Lund University. Petersson is a co-founder and co-director of the research platform ¿Russia and the Caucasus Regional Research¿ (RUCARR). He is a board member of The Swedish Society for the Study of Russia, Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia, the Swedish Network for European Studies in Political Science as well as the journals Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Journal of Intangible Heritage, and Nordisk Östforum. His previous books include National Self-Images and Regional Identities in Russia (Ashgate/Routledge 2001/2018); Stories about Strangers: Swedish Media Constructions of Socio-Cultural Risk (University Press of America 2006), Majority Cultures and the Everyday Politics of Ethnic Difference (ed. with Katharine Tyler, Palgrave 2008), The Sochi Predicament (ed. with Karina Vamling, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2013), Crisis and Migration: Implications of the Eurozone Crisis for Perceptions, Politics, and Policies of Migration (ed. with Pieter Bevelander, Nordic Academic Press 2014), Playing Second Fiddle: Contending Visions of Europe¿s Future Development (ed. with Hans-Åke Persson and Cecilie Stokholm Banke, Universus Academic Press 2015). His papers have appeared in, among other outlets, Cooperation and Conflict, Demokratizatsiya, East European Politics, Europe-Asia Studies, European Societies, and Problems of Post-Communism.

The author of the foreword:

Dr. J. Paul Goode is Associate Professor and McMillan Chair of Russian Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa.