David Lewis

David Lewis is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter. He has a broad range of research interests in the areas of international security, conflict studies and the politics of authoritarian states, with a regional focus on Central Asia and the Caucasus.

The Skripal attack and the post-Soviet practice of extraterritorial security

Traditional methods of national security fail to address “extraterritorial security” and the context of global authoritarianism and kleptocracy in which it emerges.

By John Heathershaw and David Lewis

/ 21 Mar 2018

The “Moscow Consensus”: Constructing autocracy in post-Soviet Eurasia

Across the former Soviet Union, a new type of authoritarianism has become the default — with commerce, parliaments, military, media and civil society used to consolidate elite economic and political power.

By David Lewis

/ 25 May 2016