Scott Radnitz
Contact
- srad@uw.edu
- (206) 543-2467
- Thomson 225A
- https://sites.uw.edu/srad/
- @sradnitz
About
Scott Radnitz is the Herbert J. Ellison Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. His research deals primarily with the post-Soviet region and topics such as protests, authoritarianism, informal networks, and identity. His work employs surveys, focus groups, and experimental methodologies.
For the 2022-23 academic year, he is a Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, part of the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.
His forthcoming book is Enemies Within: The Global Politics of Fifth Columns, edited with Harris Mylonas (GWU), is under contract with Oxford University Press.
His most recent book Revealing Schemes: The Politics of Conspiracy in Russia and the Post-Soviet Region came out with Oxford University Press in 2021. It investigates why politicians in the region promote conspiratorial claims and what effects that has.
His first book, Weapons of the Wealthy: Predatory Regimes and Elite-Led Protests in Central Asia
He is an associate editor of Communist and Post-Communist Studies, a faculty member at UW’s Center for an Informed Public, and a member of the Program on New Approaches to Research and Security (PONARS) in Eurasia.
He teaches the following courses: States, Markets, and Societies; Contemporary Central Asian Politics; Post-Soviet Security; Interdisciplinary Survey of Eurasia; Failed States; Research Design and Methods; and Social Movements and Revolutions.
Education
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D., 2007
- University of California at Berkeley, B.A. Political Science, 2000
Selected Courses
Selected Publications
Enemies Within -The Global Politics of Fifth Columns
Publication type:
Book
Co-Author(s):
Harris Mylonas
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Publication Date:
2022
Revealing Schemes -The Politics of Conspiracy in Russia and the Post-Soviet Region
Publication type:
Book
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Publication Date:
2021
Allies or Agitators? -How Partisan Identity Shapes Public Opinion about Violent or Nonviolent Protests.
Publication type:
Article
Co-Author(s):
Yuan Hsiao
Published in:
Political Communication, 1-19
Publication Date:
2020
Reinterpreting the enemy -Geopolitical beliefs and the attribution of blame in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
Publication type:
Article
Published in:
Political Geography, 70
Publication Date:
2019
Why the Powerful (in Weak States) Prefer Conspiracy Theories
Publication type:
Book Chapter
Published in:
Conspiracy Theories and the People Who Believe Them, ed. Joseph Uscinski
Publication Date:
2018
How Do Tools of Evasion Become Instruments of Exploitation?
Publication type:
Book Chapter
Published in:
Global Encyclopedia of Informality, Volume 2, ed. Alena Ledeneva
Publication Date:
2018
Historical narratives and post-conflict reconciliation -An experiment in Azerbaijan
Publication type:
Article
Published in:
Conflict Management and Peace Science, 35 (2)
Publication Date:
2018
Power, Peripheries, and Pyramids in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan and Georgia
Publication type:
Book Chapter
Published in:
Paradox of Power, eds. Edward Schatz and John Heathershaw
Publication Date:
2017
Is Belief in Conspiracy Theories Pathological? -A Survey Experiment on the Cognitive Roots of Extreme Suspicion
Publication type:
Article
Co-Author(s):
Patrick Underwood
Published in:
British Journal of Political Science 47(1)
Publication Date:
2017
Ethnic Cues and Redistributive Preferences in Post-Soviet Georgia
Publication type:
Article
Published in:
Studies in Comparative International Development, 52 (3)
Publication Date:
2017
Between Russia and a Hard Place -Great Power Grievances and Central Asian Ambivalence
Publication type:
Article
Published in:
Europe-Asia Studies, 70 (10)
Publication Date:
2017
Paranoia with a purpose -conspiracy theory and political coalitions in Kyrgyzstan
Publication type:
Article
Published in:
Post-Soviet Affairs, 32(5)
Publication Date:
2016
Oil in the Family -Managing Presidential Succession in Azerbaijan
Publication type:
Book Chapter
Published in:
Coloured Revolutions and Authoritarian Reactions, eds. Yitzhak Brudny and Evgeny Finkel
Publication Date:
2013
Oil in the Family -Managing Presidential Succession in Azerbaijan
Publication type:
Article
Published in:
Democratization, Volume 10, Issue 1
Publication Date:
2012
Weapons of the Wealthy -Predatory Regimes and Elite-Led Protests in Central Asia
Publication type:
Book
Publisher:
Cornell University Press
Publication Date:
2010
The Color of Money -Privatization, Economic Dispersion, and the Post-Soviet "Revolutions"
Publication type:
Article
Published in:
Comparative Politics, Volume 42, Issue 2
Publication Date:
2010
A Horse of a Different Color -Revolution and Regression in Kyrgyzstan
Publication type:
Book Chapter
Published in:
Democracy and Authoritarianism in the Postcommunist World, eds. Valerie Bunce, Michael A. McFaul, and Kathryn Stoner-Weiss
Publication Date:
2009
