political scientist, expert on international relations
Vera Grantseva (Ageeva) graduated from Philosophy department, French language department and School of International Relations at St.Petersburg state university. She served as international relations expert at St.Petersburg City Administration in 2008-2016. In 2012 she undertook an internship at Chicago City Hall, USA.. She defended a thesis of candidate of science in international Relations at St.Petersburg State University in 2016 (topic - Russian soft power). She was associate professor at Higher School of Economics (St.Petersburg) in 2017-2023. She has been teaching at Sciences Po Paris since 2020. In 2023 she published her first book 'Do the Russians want the war? ("Les Russes veulent-ils la guerre?" in French, Editions du Cerf, Paris).
Vera Grantseva
VERA GRANTSEVA
political scientist, expert on international relations
Vera Grantseva (Ageeva) graduated from Philosophy department, French language department and School of International Relations at St.Petersburg state university. She served as international relations expert at St.Petersburg City Administration in 2008-2016. In 2012 she undertook an internship at Chicago City Hall, USA.. She defended a thesis of candidate of science in international Relations at St.Petersburg State University in 2016 (topic - Russian soft power). She was associate professor at Higher School of Economics (St.Petersburg) in 2017-2023. She has been teaching at Sciences Po Paris since 2020. In 2023 she published her first book 'Do the Russians want the war? ("Les Russes veulent-ils la guerre?" in French, Editions du Cerf, Paris).
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Book
Since the invasion of Ukraine, the Russians have presented an enigma. Are they warmongers?
Waiters? Scared? Lobotomized? Indifferent? It took political scientist Vera Grantseva, who grew up under Putin and who today teaches in Paris, to masterfully elucidate this mystery.
What do these images of city dwellers doing their shopping, ignoring the
bombings, fighting, victims? Those sparse military recruiting offices and packed theaters? These prisons which are emptied of their criminals and filled with dissidents while the schools turn into ideological re-education centers?
These erratic polls published by a muzzled or ordered press and these television broadcasts where the nuclear apocalypse is announced? How can we explain this denial of reality, this ethical apathy, this political paralysis?
Repression, propaganda, lies do not explain everything, Vera Grantseva tells us. Mobilizing testimonies, social sciences, history, and her intimate knowledge of Russian society, she deciphers the hidden mechanisms of a predatory state, a mafia regime, a people subjected to cannibalistic neo-feudalism.
“Do the Russians want war? » asked the poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko in 1961. Here, sixty years later, is the answer that concerns us all.
After having served as coordinator of international cooperation at the City Administration of Saint Petersburg and professor at the Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Saint Petersburg, Vera Grantseva is now teaching at Sciences Po Paris. Her articles are published in leading scientific international journals.
Waiters? Scared? Lobotomized? Indifferent? It took political scientist Vera Grantseva, who grew up under Putin and who today teaches in Paris, to masterfully elucidate this mystery.
What do these images of city dwellers doing their shopping, ignoring the
bombings, fighting, victims? Those sparse military recruiting offices and packed theaters? These prisons which are emptied of their criminals and filled with dissidents while the schools turn into ideological re-education centers?
These erratic polls published by a muzzled or ordered press and these television broadcasts where the nuclear apocalypse is announced? How can we explain this denial of reality, this ethical apathy, this political paralysis?
Repression, propaganda, lies do not explain everything, Vera Grantseva tells us. Mobilizing testimonies, social sciences, history, and her intimate knowledge of Russian society, she deciphers the hidden mechanisms of a predatory state, a mafia regime, a people subjected to cannibalistic neo-feudalism.
“Do the Russians want war? » asked the poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko in 1961. Here, sixty years later, is the answer that concerns us all.
After having served as coordinator of international cooperation at the City Administration of Saint Petersburg and professor at the Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Saint Petersburg, Vera Grantseva is now teaching at Sciences Po Paris. Her articles are published in leading scientific international journals.
"Do the Russians want the war?" in French ("Les Russes veulent-ils la guerre?")
Date of publication: 05 octobre 2023, Editions du Cerf, Paris.
Date of publication: 05 octobre 2023, Editions du Cerf, Paris.
"Do the Russians want the war?" in French ("Les Russes veulent-ils la guerre?")
Date of publication: 05 octobre 2023, Editions du Cerf, Paris.
Date of publication: 05 octobre 2023, Editions du Cerf, Paris.
Since the invasion of Ukraine, the Russians have presented an enigma. Are they warmongers?
Waiters? Scared? Lobotomized? Indifferent? It took political scientist Vera Grantseva, who grew up under Putin and who today teaches in Paris, to masterfully elucidate this mystery.
What do these images of city dwellers doing their shopping, ignoring the
bombings, fighting, victims? Those sparse military recruiting offices and packed theaters? These prisons which are emptied of their criminals and filled with dissidents while the schools turn into ideological re-education centers?
These erratic polls published by a muzzled or ordered press and these television broadcasts where the nuclear apocalypse is announced? How can we explain this denial of reality, this ethical apathy, this political paralysis?
Repression, propaganda, lies do not explain everything, Vera Grantseva tells us. Mobilizing testimonies, social sciences, history, and her intimate knowledge of Russian society, she deciphers the hidden mechanisms of a predatory state, a mafia regime, a people subjected to cannibalistic neo-feudalism.
“Do the Russians want war? » asked the poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko in 1961. Here, sixty years later, is the answer that concerns us all.
After having served as coordinator of international cooperation at the City Administration of Saint Petersburg and professor at the Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Saint Petersburg, Vera Grantseva is now teaching at Sciences Po Paris. Her articles are published in leading scientific international journals.
Waiters? Scared? Lobotomized? Indifferent? It took political scientist Vera Grantseva, who grew up under Putin and who today teaches in Paris, to masterfully elucidate this mystery.
What do these images of city dwellers doing their shopping, ignoring the
bombings, fighting, victims? Those sparse military recruiting offices and packed theaters? These prisons which are emptied of their criminals and filled with dissidents while the schools turn into ideological re-education centers?
These erratic polls published by a muzzled or ordered press and these television broadcasts where the nuclear apocalypse is announced? How can we explain this denial of reality, this ethical apathy, this political paralysis?
Repression, propaganda, lies do not explain everything, Vera Grantseva tells us. Mobilizing testimonies, social sciences, history, and her intimate knowledge of Russian society, she deciphers the hidden mechanisms of a predatory state, a mafia regime, a people subjected to cannibalistic neo-feudalism.
“Do the Russians want war? » asked the poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko in 1961. Here, sixty years later, is the answer that concerns us all.
After having served as coordinator of international cooperation at the City Administration of Saint Petersburg and professor at the Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Saint Petersburg, Vera Grantseva is now teaching at Sciences Po Paris. Her articles are published in leading scientific international journals.
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Publications: SELECTION
Russia in Global Affairs 19, no. 1 (January/March 2021) (April 7, 2021): 118–45 (in English).
Europe-Asia Studies, 74:8, 1325-1349 (in English).
Sciences Po Paris, avril 2022 (en français).
Diploweb, mai 2022 (en français).
Regard de la Russie, La Tribune, avril 2022.
(chapter with Sandra Fernandes), in Nuno Morgado (eds.), Geopolitics in the Twenty-First Century: Territories, Identities, and Foreign Policies, Nova Science Publishers, 2021 (In English).
(chapter with Sandra Fernandes) in F. Leandro and P. Duarte (eds.); The Belt and Road Initiative – International Perspectives on an Old Archetype of a New Development Model, Macmillan Palgrave, 2020 (In English).
Russia in Global Affairs 19, no. 1 (January/March 2021) (April 7, 2021): 118–45 (in English).
Europe-Asia Studies, 74:8, 1325-1349 (in English).
Sciences Po Paris, avril 2022 (en français).
Diploweb, mai 2022 (en français).
Regard de la Russie, La Tribune, avril 2022.
(chapter with Sandra Fernandes), in Nuno Morgado (eds.), Geopolitics in the Twenty-First Century: Territories, Identities, and Foreign Policies, Nova Science Publishers, 2021 (In English).
(chapter with Sandra Fernandes) in F. Leandro and P. Duarte (eds.); The Belt and Road Initiative – International Perspectives on an Old Archetype of a New Development Model, Macmillan Palgrave, 2020 (In English).
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