Michael Martin Richter

Research Fellow / PhD candidate
Innovative Training Network (ITN) MARKETS (EU-MSCA grant)
Department of Politics and Economics

 

Room 3660
Phone +49 421 218 69603
richterm(at)uni-bremen.de

 
 

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Current project
 
Rent-seeking processes and the impact of political and economic shocks: a comparative study of companies in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine (PhD Project)
 

Research interests

• Evolution and current state of state-business relations in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)
• Survival and adaptation mechanisms of enterprises to crises in autocratic and hybrid regimes
• Corporate governance determinants of companies in post-Soviet countries
• Small and middle enterprises and entrepreneurship in Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine

 

Education
 
09/2019 - 06/2020 European Interdisciplinary Studies: EU Public Affairs and Policies (M.A.)
College of Europe, Natolin
Title of MA Thesis: “The Eurasian Economic Union in 2030: A Moscow-led Alternative to the EU or Another Paper Tiger of Post-Soviet Integration Efforts?”

09/2017- 06/2019 International Master in Economy, State, and Society: Politics and the International Economy (first degree) and International Relations (second degree).
University College London (UCL) and Higher School of Economics (HSE) Moscow
Title of MA Thesis: “Economic Benefits and Political Obstacles of an FTA Between EU and EAEU”

10/2013 - 06/2017 Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) in International Management (double degree)
European School of Business (ESB) in Reutlingen and Jagiellonian University in Cracow
Title of B.Sc Thesis: “The Reasons for the Divergent Economic Development of Poland and Ukraine After 1989” 
 

Work experience

Since 09/2020 Scientific employee (PhD candidate) at the Research Centre for East European Studies (University of Bremen) as part of the Innovative Training Network (ITN): Mapping Uncertainties, Challenges and Future Opportunities of Emerging Markets: Informal Barriers, Business Environments and Future Trends in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia (MARKETS), which is funded by an MSCA grant of the European Union in the context of Horizon 2020 (Grant agreement no: 861034) and coordinated by Dublin City University

01/19- 03/19 Policy Analysis Intern at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Moscow, Russia

09/2018 - 11/2018 Intern in the Political Department of the Polish Embassy in Moscow, Russia

07/2017 - 08/2017 Research and Data Analyst Intern Centre of Analysis of the Jagiellonian Club in Cracow, Poland

02/2016 - 06/2016 Assurance Intern at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in Freiburg, Germany

02/2015 - 06/2015 Procurement Intern at Ecolab Engineering in Cracow, Poland


Scholarships

09/2019 - 06/2020 European Neighbourhood Policy scholarship from the European Commission for the studies at the College of Europe

10/2016 - 06/2019 Konrad Adenauer Foundation scholarship for outstanding students


Publications
 

Richter, Michael Martin (2022): The Diversity of Actors in Reform Backsliding and Its Containment in the Ukrainian Hybrid Regime, in: Politics and Governance (online first)

Michael Martin Richter (2022): Innovationen als Wachstumsfaktor in der Transformation. Eine komparative Analyse von Ostdeutschland und Polen, in: Falk Flade, Anna M. Steinkamp, Konrad Walerski (Hg.): Transformation in Polen und Ostdeutschland. Voraussetzungen, Verlauf und Ergebnisse, Harrassowitz Verlag,  Wiesbaden, pp. 103-121

Michael Martin Richter (2021): Konsum, Konservatismus und Staats-Kapitalismus – die PiS beschließt die sozio-ökonomische "Polnische Ordnung", in: Polen-Analysen 284, 16 November 2021, pp. 2–6

Michael Martin Richter (2021): Die Ukraine auf dem Weg zum Rechts- oder Präsidentenstaat?, in: Ukraine-Analysen 256, 15 October 2021, pp. 2–5

Michael Martin Richter (2021): KMU in Russland: Wie Unternehmergeist wecken und fördern? In: Zaren, Daten, Fakten-Podcast, 07 July 2021

Michael Martin Richter (2021): Russische kleine und mittlere Unternehmen (KMUs) in der Corona-Krise – Ein Sterben auf Raten, in: Russland-Analysen 404, 24 June 2021, pp. 10–13

Michael Richter (2021): Das Moskauer Damoklesschwert - Zum Verhältnis zwischen der EU und Russland, in: WeltTrends, No.176, June 2021, pp. 58-61

Michael Richter (2021): The battle of Nord Stream 2 narratives, Ridl.io, 08 February 2021 (https://www.ridl.io/en/the-battle-of-nord-stream-2-narratives/)

Michael Richter und Mikhail Polianskii (2020): Belarus: Strategisch gefangen, in: WeltTrends, No.170, December 2020, pp. 9-14

Michael Richter, Jakub Bartoszewski (2020): Dirigisme 2.0 – The Way to Go for the Region?, in: New Eastern Europe, No. 5/2020, pp. 98-106

Janis Kluge, Michael Richter (2020): The Lisbon-Vladivostok Illusion. Op-ed, Ridl.io, 20 March 2020
 
Michael Richter (2019): Integracja w Europie – czy bliższa współpraca to klucz do wspólnego dobrobytu? [Integration in Europe - is closer cooperation the key to shared prosperity?], in: European Financial Congress - Akademia: Co zmienilibyśmy w Polsce i Europie?, Sopot 2019, pp. 46-51
 
Michael Richter (2019): Zukunft der europäischen Sicherheitsinfrastruktur [Future of the European security architecture], in: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung: Das europäische Sicherheitssystem: Mittel und Wege der Krisenbewältigung, Moscow 2019, pp. 24-26 (also published in Russian)

04 – 05/2012 Two publications in the German daily newspaper "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" (FAZ) within a nation-wide young writer competition organized by the Union of German Banks (in German)