Alexandra Brankova
Researcher at Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies; Affiliated
- E-mail:
- alexandra.brankova@ires.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Gamla Torget 3, 3 tr
- Postal address:
- Box 514
751 20 UPPSALA
Short presentation
Alexandra Brankova is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Political Science at the Swedish Defence University working on a project about Geopolitical Narratives. Alexandra is also an affiliated researcher at the Institute for Russian and Eurasian studies, Uppsala University. She holds a PhD degree in Media and Communications from Uppsala University.
Her research interests include geopolitical narratives, identity construction, international relations, digital media, & nationalism studies.
Keywords
- narrative geopolitics
- digital nationalism studies
- identity
- critical international relations
- discourse studies
- media ecology
- great power politics
- ontological security.

Publications
Selection of publications
Recent publications
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Part of Baltic Worlds, p. 106-113, 2026
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Part of Otherness in Communication Research, p. 271-288, Palgrave Macmillan, 2025
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2025
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Prigozhin's Patriot Media Group: Just Like A Nesting Doll
Part of Baltic Worlds, p. 15-20, 2024
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Part of TMG Journal for Media History, p. 1-33, 2023
- DOI for Transformation of Bulgarian 1990s Print Media Cultures: Technology, Cultural Representations, Piracy, and Identity Formation on a Crossroad between the East and the West
- Download full text (pdf) of Transformation of Bulgarian 1990s Print Media Cultures: Technology, Cultural Representations, Piracy, and Identity Formation on a Crossroad between the East and the West
All publications
Articles in journal
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Part of Baltic Worlds, p. 106-113, 2026
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Prigozhin's Patriot Media Group: Just Like A Nesting Doll
Part of Baltic Worlds, p. 15-20, 2024
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Part of TMG Journal for Media History, p. 1-33, 2023
- DOI for Transformation of Bulgarian 1990s Print Media Cultures: Technology, Cultural Representations, Piracy, and Identity Formation on a Crossroad between the East and the West
- Download full text (pdf) of Transformation of Bulgarian 1990s Print Media Cultures: Technology, Cultural Representations, Piracy, and Identity Formation on a Crossroad between the East and the West
Chapters in book
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Part of Otherness in Communication Research, p. 271-288, Palgrave Macmillan, 2025
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Part of Post-Soviet Women, p. 159-179, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023
Monograph doctoral thesis
Other
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Russian War Nationalism: Nationalist Practices, Empire, Conservatism, and Orthodoxy
2023
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Part of Europe-Asia Studies, p. 1511-1512, 2022
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2021