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My publications are arranged by categories so that they might appear in several categories simultaneously.

Terrorism and Counterterrorism

Anastassiya Mahon. “A pivotal event narrative in critical terrorism studies: COVID-19 and the threat of terrorism” in 9/11 Twenty Years On Critical Perspectives, edited By Leonie B. Jackson, Lee Jarvis, Harmonie Toros, 2023. Routledge. Available to order here.

Anastassiya Mahon and Scott Walker, “COUNTERTERRORISM POLICY IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION: FURTHERING THE NEEDS OF THE REGIME”, Studies of Transition States and Societies, v. 15, n. 1, June 2023. Open Access here.

Mahon, Anastassiya. “Defining Terrorism: how Ambiguous Definitions and Vague Classifications Open Doors for Power Acquisition.” Journal Of Global Strategic Studies, 2, no. 1 (2022): 84-97. Open Access here.

Anastassiya Mahon (2021) A pivotal event narrative in critical terrorism studies: COVID-19 and the threat of terrorism, Critical Studies on Terrorism, DOI: 10.1080/17539153.2021.1982463. Available here.

Russia, Central Asia, Eurasia

“Ukraine war: why central Asian countries want to move away from Russian control”, the Conversation, 30 May 2024.

Mahon, Anastassiya, and Stefan Wolff. 2023. ‘The New Great Game Continued? How the West Is Trying to Get (Back) to Central Asia’. The Foreign Policy Centre (blog). 20 October 2023. Available here.

Anastassiya Mahon, James C Pearce, Andrei Korobkov, Rashid Gabdulhakov, Nino Gozalishvili, Revaz Topuria, Natalia Stercul, Marius Vacarelu, Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: What Did We Miss?, International Studies Perspectives, 2023. Open Access is available here.

Anastassiya Mahon “The Kremlin’s propaganda: terrorism securitisation, denazification, and the laws on fake news”, in “Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: What did we miss?” International Studies Perspectives, 2023; Open access here.

Anastassiya Mahon and Scott Walker, “COUNTERTERRORISM POLICY IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION: FURTHERING THE NEEDS OF THE REGIME”, Studies of Transition States and Societies, v. 15, n. 1, June 2023. Open Access here.

Nicholas Ross Smith and Anastassiya Yuchshenko, “Realism and the study of EU-Russian relations”, (2021), The Routledge Handbook of EU-Russia Relations: Structures, Actors, Issues, Romanova, T. & David, M. (eds.). ISBN 9781138543676. Routledge.

Pearce, J. C., & Yuchshenko, A. (2018). Defending Russia, Securitising the Future: How the past Shaped Russia’s Political Discourse Regarding Crimea. Europolity, 12(1), 85–105. Open Access is available here

Anastassiya Yuchshenko. 2010. Role of corporate governance in the modernization of Kazakhstan economy in post – crises period. XIV international scientific and practical conference “Modernization of the Kazakhstan economy: actual problems of post crisis development”.

Ukraine

“Ukraine war: why central Asian countries want to move away from Russian control”, the Conversation, 30 May 2024.

Anastassiya Mahon, James C Pearce, Andrei Korobkov, Rashid Gabdulhakov, Nino Gozalishvili, Revaz Topuria, Natalia Stercul, Marius Vacarelu, Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: What Did We Miss?, International Studies Perspectives, 2023. Open Access is here.

Anastassiya Mahon “The Kremlin’s propaganda: terrorism securitisation, denazification, and the laws on fake news”, in “Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: What did we miss?” International Studies Perspectives, 2023; Open access here.

Pearce, J. C., & Yuchshenko, A. (2018). Defending Russia, Securitising the Future: How the past Shaped Russia’s Political Discourse Regarding Crimea. Europolity, 12(1), 85–105. Open Access is here

Securitization, security, humanitarianism, humanitarian securitization

Michael Magcamit and Anastassiya Mahon, 2004. “Humanitarianism and the New Wars: Humanitarianism, Security and Securitization” Chapter for Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality (Edward Elgar), edited by Roth, Denskus, and Purkayastha. Available to order here.

Education

Anastassiya Mahon. 2024. “‘Everyone struggles’: a cautionary tale of an independent early career researcher”, British Academy HEPI Report 169. Open Access is here.

Dominic Mahon & Anastassiya Mahon (2021) Educational responses to the challenges of the COVID-19 global pandemic: online provision and its consequences for the social resilience of minority communities, Globalisation, Societies and Education, DOI: 10.1080/14767724.2021.2017859 Available here.

Book reviews

Anastassiya Mahon (2024) Gender mainstreaming in counter-terrorism policy. Building transformative strategies to counter violent extremism, Critical Studies on Terrorism, DOI: 10.1080/17539153.2024.2307112

Anastassiya Mahon (2023) Book review of The rise of global Islamophobia in the War on Terror: Coloniality, race, and Islam, Critical Studies on Terrorism, DOI: 10.1080/17539153.2023.2261089

Anastassiya Mahon (2023) Book review of From the fires of war: Ukraine’s Azov movement and the global far right, Critical Studies on Terrorism, DOI: 10.1080/17539153.2023.2187838.

Anastassiya Mahon (2022) Counter-terrorism laws and freedom of expression: global perspectives, Critical Studies on Terrorism, 15:3, 757-758, DOI: 10.1080/17539153.2022.2093885

Anastassiya Mahon (2022) Book review of the political appropriation of the Muslim body: islamophobia, counter-terrorism law and gender, Critical Studies on Terrorism, 15:2, 508-509, DOI: 10.1080/17539153.2022.2038826

Anastassiya Mahon (2022) Killing strangers: how political violence became modern, Critical Studies on Terrorism, 15:1, 234-235, DOI: 10.1080/17539153.2021.1999467

Anastassiya Mahon (2021) Bringing normativity into critical terrorism studies, Critical Studies on Terrorism, 14:3, 382-384, DOI: 10.1080/17539153.2021.1929478

Anastassiya Yuchshenko (2021) Banning them, securing us?: terrorism, parliament and the ritual of proscription, Critical Studies on Terrorism, 14:1, 149-150, DOI: 10.1080/17539153.2020.1854157

Anastassiya Yuchshenko (2020) Book review of ‘Unknowing the “War on Terror”: The Pleasures of Risk’, Critical Studies on Terrorism, 13:3, 504-506, DOI: 10.1080/17539153.2020.1780769

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