About Margot Light
Margot Light is Professor Emeritus of International Relations at the Department of International Relations of the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is an expert on post-Soviet politics, and is a regular commentator and featured expert on both radio and television. Her research interests include east-west relations; Soviet, CIS and Russian defence, foreign and domestic policy; and eastern European foreign relations. She co-edits the Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics. Her publications include Putin's Russia and the Enlarged Europe (with R. Allison and S. White) (Blackwell: 2006); as well as many journal and book chapters, including 'Enlargement and the new outsiders' (with S. White and I. McAllister), Journal of Common Market Studies 40.1 (2002): 135-53; and 'The export of democracy', in K. E. Smith and M. Light (eds.), Ethics and Foreign Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp. 75-91.
Articles by Margot Light
Russian policy in the Middle East has been largely driven by pragmatic calculations of trade and geopolitical influence, in direct opposition to notions of liberal interventionalism and the ‘Arab Spring’. This week’s shocking massacre by Syrian forces in Houla, however, has fundamentally challenged the durability of that approach. Will Russia now fall in line with the position of its western partners? wonders Margot Light.This week's editor
Europe from the bottom up
European debate
Democratic Wealth
Nuclear non-proliferation
Women and the Arab Spring
oDRussia at journalismfestival .com
Mali - the plot thickens
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Remote control war
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