Biography
Sam Greene is professor in Russian politics and Director of the Russia Institute at King’s College London. Prior to moving to London in 2012 to join King’s, he lived and worked in Moscow for 13 years, most recently as director of the Centre for the Study of New Media & Society at the New Economic School, and as deputy director of the Carnegie Moscow Center. He holds a PhD in political sociology from the London School of Economics & Political Science.
His most recent book, co-authored with Graeme Robertson, is Putin v the People: The Perilous Politics of a Divided Russia, published in 2019 by Yale University Press. His previous book, Moscow in Movement: Power & Opposition in Putin’s Russia, was published in 2014 by Stanford University Press. Sam’s academic work has been published in leading disciplinary and area studies journals, including Comparative Political Studies, Perspectives on Politics, The Journal of Democracy, Post-Soviet Affairs and Problems of Post-Communism. He regularly contributes opinion and analysis pieces to general interest publications, such as The Washington Post, The Moscow Times, Foreign Policy, The New Statesman and others, and is a frequent commentator in British, American, Russian and European broadcast and print media.
Alongside his work at King’s, Sam is an Associate Fellow of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a Trustee of Pushkin House, and Editor-in-Chief of Russian Politics & Law.
Research
Sam’s research focuses on the relationships of power in Russia, in authoritarianism, and in societies experiencing social, economic and political transformation more broadly. He seeks to deploy a variety of mostly qualitative approaches from political science and political sociology to uncover citizens’ evolving understanding of their state, their identity as citizens and the meaning of their political community. In addition, Sam has a particular interest in online social media, both as a factor in social mobilization and political mobilization, and as a venue for conducting new kinds of research.
Sam is open to supervising PhD projects on any of these themes, particularly with reference to Russia and the post-Soviet region.
Teaching
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Greene, S. & Robertson, G., 15 Apr 2021, Moscow: ИздательÑтво Corpus. Research output: Book/Report - Book - peer-review
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Greene, S. & Robertson, G., 14 Sep 2020, In: PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICS. First view, p. 1 - 15 Research output: Contribution to journal - Article - peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592720002339
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Greene, S. & Robertson, G., Aug 2020, (Accepted/In press) Ruling by Other Means: State-Mobilized Movements. Ekiert, G., Perry, E. J. & Xiaojun, Y. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics). Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding - Chapter - peer-review
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Greene, S., 7 Jun 2019, In: SOCIAL RESEARCH. 86, 1, p. 181-202 22 p. Research output: Contribution to journal - Review article
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Greene, S. A. & Robertson, G. B., 23 Apr 2019, New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. 296 p. Research output: Book/Report - Book - peer-review
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Greene, S. A., 2018, In: Post-Soviet Affairs. 34, 5, p. 333-347 15 p. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article - peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1080/1060586X.2018.1500095
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Greene, S. & Robertson, G., 1 Nov 2017, In: COMPARATIVE POLITICAL STUDIES. 50, 13, p. 1802-1834 Research output: Contribution to journal - Article - peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1177/0010414016688005
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Greene, S. A., Oct 2017, In: JOURNAL OF DEMOCRACY. p. 86-100 Research output: Contribution to journal - Article. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1353/jod.2017.0069
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Greene, S. A., 2017, In: Daedalus. 146, 2, p. 113-127 15 p. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article - peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1162/DAED_a_00439
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Greene, S. A., 1 Oct 2015, In: CURRENT HISTORY. 114, 774, p. 251-258 8 p. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article - peer-review