Dr. Ilya Matveev

Post-doctoral researcher

 


E-mail: imatveev@uni-bremen.de

 

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Fields of Research

• Russian politics and economy
• Comparative politics
• International political economy 

Short CV
 
Academic/Teaching Experience

Since 2025: post-doctoral researcher at FSO

2023 – 2025: Visiting Scholar with the Program in Critical Theory, UC Berkeley

2019 – 2022: Associate dean for international cooperation, Department of International Relations and Political Studies, North West Institute of Management, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA Saint Petersburg)

2016 – 2022: Associate professor, Department of International Relations and Political Studies, North-West Institute of Management, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA Saint Petersburg)

2015: Visiting student researcher, Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, UC Berkeley
 
Education

2013-2016 European University at Saint Petersburg

• All But Dissertation: graduate program in political science completed

2013 Candidate of Sciences degree [analogous to a PhD], Moscow State University

2010 Specialist degree, Moscow State University, department of political science


 
Publications
 
Peer-Reviewed Articles

Matveev, I., Mushura, A. (2025). Paradise lost: Russian multinationals under deglobalization, 2014–2021. Post-Communist Economies. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14631377.2025.2496848

Matveev, I. (2024). From the Chicago Boys to Hjalmar Schacht: The Trajectory of the (Neo) liberal Economic Expertise in Russia. Problems of Post-Communism 71 (6), 508-517.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10758216.2023.2291359

Matveev, I., Zhuravlev, O. (2023). When the Whole Is Less Than the Sum of Its Parts: Russian Developmentalism since the Mid-2000s. Russian Politics, 8(1), 76-96.
https://brill.com/view/journals/rupo/8/1/article-p76_4.xml

Yusupova, G., Matveev, I. (2023). Nationalism and Inequality Scholarship in the Age of Populism: Bringing Territory Back In? Nationalities Papers, 1-14.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/nationalities-papers/article/nationalism-and-inequality-scholarship-in-the-age-of-populism-bringing-territory-back-in/647935955F301483ADAA9636E59F2206

Matveev, I., Novkunskaya, A. (2022). Welfare restructuring in Russia since 2012: National trends and evidence from the regions. Europe-Asia Studies, 74(1), 50–71.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09668136.2020.1826907

Matveev, I. (2022). Between Political and Economic Imperialism: Russia’s Shifting Global Strategy. Journal of Labor and Society. https://brill.com/view/journals/jlso/25/2/article-p198_002.xml

Matveev, I. (2021). Benefits or services? Politics of welfare retrenchment in Russia, 2014–2017. East European Politics, 37(3), 534–551. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21599165.2020.1828874

Matveev, I. (2019). Big Business in Putin's Russia: Structural and Instrumental Power. Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, 27(4), 401–422. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/734520
 
Editor-Reviewed Articles

Matveev, I., Zhuravlev, O. (2022). Loft Offices and Factory Towns: Social Sources of Political Polarization in Russia. Socialist Register. https://socialistregister.com/index.php/srv/article/view/37659

Matveev, I. (2014). The "Two Russias" Culture War: Constructions of the "People" during the 2011- 2013 Protests. South Atlantic Quarterly, 113(1), 186–195. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-2390482
 
Book Chapters

Matveev, I., Sokhey, S. (2022) Inequality and Social Policy in Russia. In Russian Politics Today. Stability and Fragility (pp. 293-317). Cambridge University Press.https://www.cambridge.org/highereducation/books/russian-politics-today/5BFCC46EE05930BF70FED00AC0731B11/inequality-and-social-policy-in-russia/3D14487A646F73943C0CB205E0BB069B

Matveev, I. (2020). State, Capital, and the Transformation of the Neoliberal Policy Paradigm in Putin's Russia. In The Global Rise of Authoritarianism in the 21st Century. Crisis of Neoliberal Globalization and the Nationalist Response. Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780367854379-5/state-capital-transformation-neoliberal-policy-paradigm-putin-russia-ilya-matveev

Matveev, I. (2018). Stability's end: The political economy of Russia's intersecting crises since 2009. In Crises in the Post‐Soviet Space: From the Dissolution of the Soviet Union to the Conflict in Ukraine (pp. 139–154). Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781351234467-8/stability-end-ilya-matveev
 


International Grants

Alameda Institute fellowship, 2024-2025. https://alameda.institute/

“Comparing protest actions in Soviet and post-Soviet spaces”, The Research Centre for East European Studies, 2020-2023, funded by Volkswagen Foundation. https://www.forschungsstelle.uni-bremen.de/en/4/20110606112638/20160411153945/Comparing_protest_actions.html