Dr Jade McGlynn is Head of the Ukraine and Russia Programme and Senior Research Fellow at King's College London's Centre for Statecraft and National Security, and a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of War Studies. She holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford, where she previously worked as a Lecturer in Russian.

Jade's research focuses on Russian-occupied Ukrainian territories, examining the mechanisms through which occupation authorities entrap, coerce, and reshape civilian populations, including through founding violence, legal coercion, economic dependency, digital enclosure, and identity replacement. She conducts regular fieldwork in eastern Ukraine and maintains established working relationships with Ukrainian security services, military intelligence, and civil society networks operating in and monitoring the occupied territories. She also holds Senior Research Associate and non-resident fellowship positions at CSIS Washington DC, ICDS Tallinn, and the Kennan Institute at the Wilson Center, and advises UK government, NATO, and allied defence and intelligence bodies on occupied territories analysis, Russian domestic politics, and cognitive warfare.

Qualifications

• DPhil, University of Oxford (Russian)
• MA by Research, University of Birmingham (Russian and East European Studies)
• BA/MA, University of Oxford (Russian and Spanish)

Research Interests

Russian occupation mechanisms and civilian entrapment; cognitive warfare and information operations; resistance under occupation; Russian domestic politics and propaganda; memory politics and identity construction in Russia and eastern Europe.

Publications

Books

• Jade McGlynn, Russia's War, Polity Press, March 2023.
• Jade McGlynn, Memory Makers: The Politics of the Past in Putin's Russia, Bloomsbury, June 2023.
• Jade McGlynn and Oliver T. Jones, eds., Researching Memory and Identity in Russia and Eastern Europe: Interdisciplinary Methodologies, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.

Peer-Reviewed Articles (Selected)

• Jade McGlynn and Anastasiia Romaniuk, 'Capturing the Minds: The Role of Child Deportation in Maintaining Russian Authority over Ukraine's Occupied Territories', European Journal of International Security, 2026. DOI: 10.1017/eis.2026.10056
• Jade McGlynn and Maria Snegovaya, 'Dissecting Putin's Regime Ideology', Post-Soviet Affairs, 2024.
• Jade McGlynn, 'Illiberal Memory across Borders: Russian Conceptualizations and Uses of History Abroad', Journal of Illiberalism Studies, Fall 2023.
• Jade McGlynn and Jelena Dureinovic, 'The Alliance of Victory: Russo-Serbian Memory Diplomacy', Memory Studies, 2022.
• Jade McGlynn, 'United by History: Government Appropriation of Everyday Nationalism during Vladimir Putin's Third Term', Nationalities Papers, Vol. 48, No. 6, 2020.
• Jade McGlynn, 'Historical Framing of the Ukraine Crisis through the Great Patriotic War: Performativity, Cultural Consciousness and Shared Remembering', Memory Studies, Vol. 13, No. 6, 2018.

Book Chapters (Selected)

• 'Living Forms of Patriotism: Engaging Young Russians in Military History?' in Youth and Memory in Europe: Defining the Past, Shaping the Future. De Gruyter, April 2022.
• 'The Great Unifier? War Narratives and Military History Tours in Kalmykia' in Young Forum of Slavic Literary Studies 2020 Collected Papers. Ibidem, May 2022.
• 'Introduction to Memory and Methodology' in Researching Memory and Identity in Russia and Eastern Europe (co-authored with Oliver Jones). Palgrave Macmillan, September 2022.
• 'Beyond Analogy: Historical Framing Analysis of Russian Political Discourse' in Researching Memory and Identity in Russia and Eastern Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, September 2022.

Policy Papers (Selected)

• 'Thresholds of Survival: The Resistance in Occupied Ukraine', CSIS, January 2026.
• 'Crossing Thresholds: Ukrainian Resistance to Russian Occupation', CSIS, May 2024.
• 'Assessing the Trump Risk to European Security', Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, October 2024.
• 'Russian Propaganda Tactics in Occupied Ukraine', Russian Analytical Digest, No. 313, April 2024.
• 'Putin's Regime Ideology: Is It Sustainable?', CSIS, December 2023.