Sofia Tipaldou

Sofia Tipaldou
Panteion University · Department of Political Science and History

Doctor of Philosophy

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Introduction
Sofia is Assistant Professor in International Relations at Panteion U. She was previously a Fulbright Scholar with UC, Berkeley (2022-2023) and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow (2017-2021) with the U of Manchester. She holds a B.A. in Economics from Piraeus U, an M.A. in European Studies from the European U Viadrina, and a PhD in International Relations from the Autonomous U of Barcelona. Sofia researches nationalism, populism and far-right mobilization using ethnographic and mixed methods.
Additional affiliations
February 2022 - September 2023
University of Manchester
Position
  • EDI Perera Fellow (The Welcome Trust)
September 2017 - February 2022
University of Manchester
Position
  • Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow (IF)
September 2022 - February 2023
University of California, Berkeley
Position
  • Research Scholar
Education
October 2003 - April 2007
European University Viadrina
Field of study
  • European Studies
September 1998 - July 2003
University of Piraeus
Field of study
  • Economics

Publications

Publications (15)
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La organización terrorista 17 de noviembre (17N) fue la más longeva de Grecia y una de las más violentas de Europa. Formada en los primeros años de la llamada Metapolitevsi, los años de la transición de la Junta militar a la democracia liberal, la organización 17N ejerció una influencia continua en la vida política griega durante 27 años. A pesar d...
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El propósito de este artículo es presentar la ultraderecha en Grecia, un caso de estudio único por la permanencia de un partido abiertamente neonazi en su parlamento durante la mayoría de la década de 2010. Amanecer Dorado se destacó por su extremismo ideológico y por el uso de violencia como herramienta política en Europa del siglo XXI. El 7 de oc...
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In 2019, Kazakhstan’s president Nursultan Nazarbayev surprised the world by voluntarily stepping down after almost thirty years in power to leave space for “a new generation of leaders.” Kazakhstan has become the success story of post-communist development in the region. Investors, domestic elites, and foreign leaders have been praising the stabili...
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This article focuses on the ongoing conflict in Eastern Ukraine (Donbass) that started with the events on the Euromaidan and the swift annexation of Crimea by Russia. Our analysis of key speeches by Vladimir Putin regarding the annexation of Crimea and the war in Donbass demonstrates that in this case, populism extends beyond the dichotomy of the p...
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En el marco de la guerra entre Ucrania y Rusia en el Donbás y la anterior crisis de Crimea, este artículo trata de identificar y cartografiar, a partir de cuatro discursos de Vladimir Putin, elementos de populismo en las estrategias discursivas y formales de su régimen para justificar y crear una forma específica de conflicto. El análisis muestra c...
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This article discusses how two similar far right movements in different political systems – Golden Dawn (GD) in democratic Greece and the Movement Against Illegal Immigration (DPNI) in authoritarian Russia – adapted their strategies and claims to better fit existing political contexts and how this affected the institutionalization of these movement...
Thesis
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My PhD dissertation deals with the factors that influence the emergence of contemporary far right organizations in Russia and underlines the key role of leadership in those organizations. The research questions addressed in my research are: To what extent does the Russian radical right movement vary over time? What accounts for the internal transfo...
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This article examines how, if at all, the mobilisation of the Russian Movement Against Illegal Immigration has had an impact on changes in Russian policies. Little is known about the outcomes of radical right movements in general or the Russian radical right in particular. The Movement Against Illegal Immigration has arguably played a role in shapi...

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