Dr. Anatoly Reshetnikov

Reshetnikov joined the International Relations Department at WVPU in December 2018. He holds a PhD from the Department of International Relations of the Central European University. Before joining WVPU, Reshetnikov was a visiting researcher at University College London and Lund University and a grantee of the Swedish Institute, as well as the CEU Budapest Foundation.

He has also been a visiting lecturer at Eötvös Loránd University and Central European University. His research was published in the European Journal of International Relations, Security Dialogue, Journal of International Relations and Development, and Nationalities Papers, among other journals. He is the author of “Chasing Greatness: On Russia’s Discursive Interaction with the West over the Past Millennium” (University of Michigan Press, 2024). Reshetnikov also serves as an Associate Editor of New Perspectives, an interdisciplinary journal with a focus on Central and Eastern Europe.

Reshetnikov’s research interests include identity politics, conceptual history, critical and linguistic approaches to social analysis, historical international relations, interpretivist pedagogy, Russia’s international politics and institutionalized political trolling.