Dr. Philipp Casula

Postdoc

Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät

Universität Basel

Research and projects

Former position(s)

- Experten, Expertise und Wissensnetzwerke: Der sowjetische Blick auf den Nahen Osten 1979-1987
- Sicherheit, Krieg und Frieden in der Sowjetunion und Russland
- Demokratie und Nation in Russland. Eine hegemonietheoretische Interpretation der politischen Entwicklung seit 2000

Publications

Monographs (and dissertation)

Hegemonie und Populismus in Putins Russland (Bielefeld: transcript, 2012).

Articles

- “The Union of Soviet Friendship Societies and its Cultural Centres in the 1970s: Orientalism and Soft Power in The Middle East”, in The Maghreb Review 48 (4) 2023: 403-423, https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/457/journal/859
- "Two Soviet Responses to Frantz Fanon", in Eileen Kane, Masha Kirasirova, and Margaret Litvin: Russian-Arab Worlds. A Documentary History. Oxford: Oxford UP.
- "Symbiosis and Revolution: The Soviet Encounter with the War in Dhofar", in Contemporary European History, 30 (4) 2021: 562-580. doi:10.1017/S0960777321000357
- "The Soviet Afro‑Asian Solidarity Committee and Soviet Perceptions of the Middle East during Late Socialism", in Cahiers du monde russe 59 (4) 2018: 499-520. doi:10.4000/monderusse.10542
- "Russia’s Foreign Policy from the Crimean Crisis to the Middle East: great power gamble or biopolitics?", in Rising Powers Quarterly 2 (1) 2017: 27-51.
- "Between 'ethnocide' and 'genocide': violence and Otherness in the coverage of the Afghanistan and Chechnya wars", in Nationalities Papers: The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity, 43 (5) 2015: 700-718.
- "Five Days of War and Olympus Inferno: the 2008 South Ossetia war in Russian and Western popular culture", in Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema, 9 (2) 2015: 110-125.
- "Russia’s and Europe’s Borderlands: Between Sovereign Intervention and Security Management", in Problems of Post-Communism , 61 (6) 2014: 6-17.
- "Souveräne Demokratie, Populismus und Depolitisierung: Der russische politische Diskurs unter Putin“, in Berliner Debatte Initial 24 (3) 2013: 108-117.

Edited volumes

Identities and Politics during the Putin Presidency: The Foundations of Russia’s Stability (Stuttgart: Ibidem, 2009) (hrsg. mit J.Perovic).

List of publications (Url)

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1464-4600

Areas of research

Politische Soziologie Osteuropas; Diskurs- und Hegemonietheorie; Postkolonialismus; Internationale Beziehungen Russlands