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Vitali Silitski, PhD

  • Visiting Scholar from Belarus 2006 - 2007

CDDRL
Stanford University
Encina Hall C
Stanford, CA 94305-6055

(650) 723-4610 (voice)

Biography

Vitali Silitski received his PhD in Political Science from Rutgers University. He worked as an associate professor at the European Humanities University in Minsk, Belarus, a position he was forced to leave in 2003 after publicly criticizing the government of President Alexander Lukashenka. He is currently working on a book titled The Long Road from Tyranny: Post-Communist Authoritarianism and Struggle for Democracy in Serbia and Belarus. Dr. Silitski is also a freelance analyst for Freedom House Nations in Transit Report, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and Oxford Analytica. In 2004-2005, he was a Reagan-Fascell Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy.

publications

Working Papers
June 2006

Contagion Deterred: Preemptive Authoritarianism in the Former Soviet Union (the Case of Belarus)

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Commentary

CDDRL Fellow Vitali Silitski on Belarus presidential elections

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