Professional Affiliation

Independent researcher

Expert Bio

Alla Leukavets specializes in the domestic and foreign policy of Belarus and other Eastern Partnership countries as well as elections and electoral protests in non-democratic regimes. She holds a PhD in political science from Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (Germany) focusing on integration policies of Belarus and Ukraine vis-à-vis the EU and Russia. In addition, she has recently finished post-doctoral programmes in electoral studies at the University of Tartu (Estonia) and at the University of Leipzig (Germany) as well as completed several research stays and traineeships, inter alia, at the Harvard Davis Center, European Parliament in Brussels and the UK Parliament in London. Dr. Leukavets has published in, among other outlets, New Perspectives, Ibidem Verlag, Caucasus Survey, Belarus Digest and Russian Analytical Digest.

Wilson Center Project

The 2020 Presidential Elections and Post-election Protests in Belarus: Internal Dynamics and Implications for Relations with Russia and the West