Associate Professor
Estonia

Phone: 327-3000 / 2162
Fax: 327-3243
E-mail: astrova@ceu.hu

Alexander Astrov received his MA in History from Central European University. He obtained his PhD in the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Research interests: International Relations Theory, International Political Theory, Classical Political Theory, the Scottish Enlightenment and British Idealism in particular.

Selected publications:

‘Monumental crisis: “nazis”, “occupiers” and other nihilists’, in Pille Petersoo and Marek Tamm (eds) Monumental conflict: memory, politics and identity in today’s Estonia (Tallinn: Varrak, 2008). In Estonian.
‘On looking back’, Vikerkaar, 4-5, 2008: 71-80. In Estonian.
‘Liturgy for the Bronze Soldier: History and Memory in the Shaping of a Crisis’, Ab Imperio: Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space, 3, 2007: 1-21. In Russian
Self-Founded Community: Minority Politics or Minor Politics? (Tallinn: Tallinn University Press, 2007). In Russian.
On World Politics: R.G. Collingwood, Michael Oakeshott and Neotraditionalism in International Relations (New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2005).
‘A Pincer-Movement in International Relations Theory: From Political Realism to Neotraditionalism’, Neprikosnovennyi Zapas, 43, 2005. In Russian.
‘The Sceptical Idealist: Michael Oakeshott as the Critic of the Enlightenment’, review-essay, Contemporary Political Theory, May 2005: 211-217.
‘Who’s Afraid of Deconstruction? Post-debatism and Beyond’, Cooperation and Conflict, 2003, 38: 149-58. Contribution to the Symposium on the Handbook of International Relations.
‘Does Estonia Need Foreign Policy?’, in Estonian Foreign-Policy Yearbook, ed. Andres Kasekamp (Tallinn: Foreign Policy Institute, 2003): 115-29.
‘Pondering Dramatic Endings, Probing Possible Beginnings; or Doing Politics as Usual?’, Journal of International Relations and Development, 2002, 5: 63-76.
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Courses taught:

Theories of International Relations: the Classical Debates (fall semester)
Theories of International Relations: Contemporary Debates (winter semester)
International Political Theory: the Problems of Order and Justice in World Politics (winter semester)