Steffen Halling
Doctoral Student
halling@uni-bremen.de
PhD Thesis: Legitimization Strategies of Ukrainian Oligarchs (Supervisor: Heiko Pleines)
Research Interests
- Societies and politics of the post-Soviet region
- Functioning of authoritarian regimes
- Sports in the post-Soviet region
Short CV
Since 12/2014: PhD Student at the University of Bremen (supervisor: Prof Dr Heiko Pleines) with a grant of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation; resident doctoral fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik), research division Eastern Europe and Eurasia
05/2014-11/2014: Researcher at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik), research division Eastern Europe and Eurasia
07/2012-04/2014: Project assistant in the project network “Institutions and Institutional Change in Postsocialism” (KomPost); subproject “Elite groups and their collective ‘resources of meaning’”, German Institute for International and Security Studies (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik)
09/2011-06/2012: Student assistant in the project network “Institutions and Institutional Change in Postsocialism” (KomPost); subproject “Elite groups and their collective ‘resources of meaning’”, German Institute for International and Security Studies (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik)
2006-2012: studies of Political Science (diploma) at the Free University Berlin, study stays in Belarus, Georgia, Latvia and Ukraine, Diploma thesis on “Oligarchs in Ukraine and their strategies”
2004-2006: European Voluntary Service in Kaunas/Lithuania
Publications
Articles in academic journals
Halling, Steffen (2014): Die Rolle der Oligarchen und der Umbruch in der Ukraine, in: OST-WEST EuropäischePerspektiven, 4/2014, S. 253-262.
Halling, Steffen (2013): Integrationsmotor Fußball? Russland, die Ukraine und die „Vereinigte Liga“, in: OSTEUROPA, 63. Jg., 9/2013, S. 79-98.
Numerous policy papers