{"id":14614,"date":"2020-11-06T14:55:44","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T14:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fondation-pierredubois.ch\/associate-researchers\/vassily-a-klimentov\/"},"modified":"2025-02-17T22:56:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T22:56:19","slug":"vassily-a-klimentov","status":"publish","type":"team","link":"https:\/\/www.fondation-pierredubois.ch\/fr\/associate-researchers\/vassily-a-klimentov\/","title":{"rendered":"Vassily A. Klimentov"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vassily Klimentov is an SNF Ambizione Principal Investigator and Lecturer at the University of Zurich. He was previously a postdoctoral researcher at the European University Institute in Florence (2020-24). His research deals with Russia\u2019s domestic and foreign policy, U.S.-Russian relations, and the memory of the Cold War in Russia and the United States. Cornell University Press has published his book\u00a0A Slow Reckoning: The USSR, the Afghan Communists, and Islam<\/em>\u00a0in 2024.<\/p>\n

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Vassily Klimentov has received his PhD in International History, with a minor in International Relations\/ Political Science, from the Geneva Graduate Institute. He also holds a MA in General History from the University of Geneva, a MA in Asian Studies from the Geneva Graduate Institute and the University of Geneva, and a BA in General History and Russian Studies from the University of Geneva.<\/p>\n

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In-between his MA and his PhD, Vassily Klimentov has worked for six years with humanitarian non-governmental organisations in Switzerland and abroad as an analyst and a needs and security assessment coordinator. He has notably been posted for two years in the Middle East on the Syrian Crisis.<\/p>\n

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Peer-Reviewed Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n

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–\u00a0A Slow Reckoning: The USSR, the Afghan Communists, and Islam <\/em>(Ithaca:\u00a0Cornell University Press\/ Northern Illinois University Press, 2024).<\/p>\n

– \u201cBetween the Domestic and the Foreign: The KGB and Soviet Muslims in the Late USSR\u201d,\u00a0Journal of Contemporary History<\/em>\u00a0(in print).<\/p>\n

– \u201cForeign Hand(s): Vladimir Putin\u2019s Securitizations of Separatism, Terrorism, & the West\u201d,\u00a0Europe-Asia Studies<\/em>(in print).<\/p>\n

– \u201cCoping with Defeat: The Russian State Duma\u2019s Views of Chechnya After the First Chechen War<\/a>\u201d. In\u00a0State-building and Historical Memories in Chechnya<\/em>, edited par C. Druey, M. Shogenov, and V. Tanailova (Bern: Peter Lang, 2024).<\/p>\n

– \u201cNot a Threat? Russian Elites\u2019 Disregard for the \u201cIslamist Danger\u201d in the North Caucasus in the 1990s<\/a>\u201d,\u00a0Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History<\/em>, 24:4 (2023)\u00a0: 817-38.<\/p>\n

– \u201cThe Tajik Civil War and Russia\u2019s Islamist Moment<\/a>\u201d,\u00a0Central Asian Survey<\/em>,\u00a0<\/em>42:2 (2023): 341-358.<\/p>\n

– \u201cIn Search of Islamic Legitimacy: The USSR, the Afghan communists, and the Muslim world<\/a>\u201d,\u00a0Cold War History<\/em>, 23:2 (2023): 283-305.<\/p>\n

– \u201c\u2019Communist Muslims\u2019: The USSR and the People\u2019s Democratic Party of Afghanistan\u2019s Conversion to Islam, 1978- 1988<\/a>\u201d,\u00a0Journal of Cold War Studies<\/em>, 24:1 (2022): 4-38.<\/p>\n

– \u201cBringing the war home: The strategic logic of \u2018North Caucasian terrorism\u2019 in Russia<\/a>\u201d,\u00a0Small Wars & Insurgencies<\/em>, 32:2 (2021): 374-408.<\/p>\n

– \u201cThe Allure of Jihad: the de-territorialization of the war in the North Caucasus<\/a>\u201d,\u00a0Caucasus Survey<\/em>, 8:3 (2020): 239-257. (With Grazvydas Jasutis as second author)<\/p>\n

– Stoddard, Abby, Shoaib Jillani, John Caccavale, Peyton Cooke, David Guillemois, et Vassily A. Klimentov, \u201cOut of Reach: How Insecurity Prevents Humanitarian Aid from Accessing the Neediest<\/a>\u201d,\u00a0Stability: International Journal of Security and Development<\/em>, 6:1 (2017): 1-25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":14611,"menu_order":35,"template":"","team_designation":[],"team_department":[],"class_list":["post-14614","team","type-team","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","xfolkentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fondation-pierredubois.ch\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/14614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fondation-pierredubois.ch\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fondation-pierredubois.ch\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/team"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondation-pierredubois.ch\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondation-pierredubois.ch\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/14614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18906,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondation-pierredubois.ch\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/14614\/revisions\/18906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondation-pierredubois.ch\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fondation-pierredubois.ch\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"team_designation","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondation-pierredubois.ch\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team_designation?post=14614"},{"taxonomy":"team_department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondation-pierredubois.ch\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team_department?post=14614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}