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Contributors
Mikhail A. Alexseev is Professor of Political Science at the San
Diego State University, USA, where he has taught since 2000. His
publications focus on threat assessment in interstate and internal
wars, ethnic relations, immigration attitudes and nationalism,
with a regional focus on Eurasia. He is the author of Immigration
Phobia and the Security Dilemma: Russia, Europe, and the United
States (Cambridge University Press, 2006), ‘Societal Security,
the Security Dilemma, and Extreme Anti- Migrant Hostility in
Russia’ (Journal of Peace Research, 2011) and ‘The Asymmetry
of Nationalist Exclusion and Inclusion’ (Social Science Quarterly,
2015). In addition, he has published scholarly articles in Political
Science Quarterly, Political Behavior, Political Communication,
Post- Soviet Studies, Eurasia Border Review, Europe–Asia Studies,
Nationalities Papers, Post- Soviet Geography and Economics and
other peer- reviewed outlets. Alexseev has directed multi- year
research projects on migration, ethnic demographics, xenophobia
and ethnic relations funded by the National Science Foundation,
the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the
National Council for Eurasian and East European Research
(Title VIII). Since 1999 he is a member of the Program on New
Approaches to Research on Security in Eurasia (PONARS Eurasia),
currently based at the George Washington University, USA.
Helge Blakkisrud is Senior Researcher and Head of the Research
Group on Russia, Eurasia and the Arctic, Norwegian Institute of