Author: Donnacha Ó Beacháin

Donnacha Ó Beacháin is a professor of politics in the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University, where he lectures on post-Soviet politics, unrecognized states, Irish studies, and foreign policy. He has been the principal investigator of two major EU-funded projects focusing on the post-Soviet space. Donnacha has twice (in 2012 and 2017) been awarded the accolade “Champion of European Research” by Ireland’s National Research Support Network. His books related to the post-Soviet region include The Colour Revolutions in the Former Soviet Republics (with Abel Polese), Life in Post-Communist Europe after EU Membership, (with Vera Sheridan and Sabina Stan), and The Domestic Politics of Post-Soviet Unrecognised States (forthcoming).