Dr Michael Martin Richter
About
Biography
Michael Martin Richter (PhD) joined the University of Surrey within the Horizon Europe REDEMOS project on EU democracy promotion abroad. Previously, he was a Research Fellow at the Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen as well as a Fellow at Harvard University, the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), and the Foreign Investors Council in Latvia (FICIL). He received his PhD in the Political Economy field from the University of Bremen for his thesis titled ‘Power, Politics, and Anti-Corruption Reforms in Ukraine: The Role of Western Actors’. Additionally, he obtained master’s degrees from the College of Europe, the Higher School of Economics, the University College London, as well as bachelor’s degrees from the ESB Business School and the Jagiellonian University. His research focuses on democracy promotion in the post-Soviet space and his works have been published, among others, in Global Policy, the Journal of Common Market Studies, Politics and Governance, Vox Ukraine, and New Eastern Europe. He is additionaly active in the NGO sector as Academic Adviser to the Coopernicus platform and as Member of the Advisory Board of the Our Future Foundation.
Areas of specialism
Publications
Highlights
Michael Martin Richter (2023): Victim of its Own Success (?) – The European Union’s Anti-Corruption Policy Advice in Ukraine Between Grand Visions and (Geo)political Realities. Journal of Common Market Studies.
Michael Martin Richter (2023): ‘Call the Bluff’ or ‘Build Back Better’ – Anti-Corruption Reforms in Post-War Ukraine. Global Policy, Volume 14, Issue 4, pp. 611-622.
Michael Martin Richter (2023): Diversity of Actors in Reform Backsliding and its Containment in the Ukrainian Hybrid Regime. Politics and Governance, Volume 11, Issue 1, pp. 5-15.
Additional publications
Journals
Jakub Bartoszewski, Michael Martin Richter (2022): Eastern Europe’s Melting Pot: How Warsaw Became the Conduit for Spreading Western Values in the Post-Soviet World. Journal of International Affairs, Volume 74, Issue 1, pp. 297-318.
Michael Richter (2020): A Greater European FTA: Economic Gains yet Socio-Political Pains for Moscow? Greater European Journal Vol. 2, pp. 48-57.
Book Chapters
Michael Martin Richter et al. (2023): Political Cooperation Formats. In: Breanna Kerr (ed.), Voices from Central and Eastern Europe – Emerging Leaders Speak on the Second Annual Transatlantic Security Initiative. International Republican Institute.
Michael Martin Richter (2022): Innovationen als Wachstumsfaktor in der Transformation. Eine komparative Analyse von Ostdeutschland und Polen [Innovation as a growth factor during the transformation. A comparative analysis of east Germany and Poland]. In: Flade, Falk; Steinkamp, Anna; Walerski, Konrad (eds.), Transformation in Polen und Ostdeutschland. Voraussetzungen, Verlauf und Ergebnisse (pp. 103-122). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
Michael Richter (2019): Integracja w Europie – czy bliższa współpraca to klucz do wspólnego dobrobytu? [Integration in Europe - is Closer Cooperation the Key to Shared Prosperity?]. In: European Financial Congress (ed.), Akademia: Co zmienilibyśmy w Polsce i Europie? (pp. 46-51).
Michael Richter (2019): Zukunft der europäischen Sicherheitsinfrastruktur, [The Future of the European Security Infrastructure]. In: Crawford, Claudia; Chernov, Igor (eds.), Das europäische Sicherheitssystem: Mittel und Wege der Krisenbewältigung (pp. 24-26). Konrad Adenauer Foundation.
Science Communication
Michael Martin Richter (2023, October 2): The realists vs idealists Brussels battle on Ukraine's EU accession. EU Observer.
Michael Martin Richter (2023, July 31): Webinar titled ‘500 Days of the War Against Ukraine’. Coopernicus.
Michael Martin Richter (2023, July 30): Live interview titled ‘Rebuilding the Pillars of Ukrainian Democracy’. TVP World.
Michael Martin Richter (2023, June 8): Reading the Fine Print: Anti-Reforms Under the Banner of Reforms. Vox Ukraine.
Michael Martin Richter (2023, February 27): Ukraine’s Europeanization – an interview with Michael Richter. Coopernicus.
Michael Martin Richter (2022): Verzweiflungstat aus wirtschaftlicher Schwäche - Russlands Krieg als Versuch, das Imperium wiederherzustellen [Act of Dispair out of Economic Weakness – Russia’s War as an Attempt to Restore the Empire]. In: WeltTrends, No.186, pp. 10-14.
Michael Martin Richter (2022, March 1): Interview for Ashraq News on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Ashraq News.
Michael Martin Richter (2021): Konsum, Konservatismus und Staats-Kapitalismus – die PiS beschließt die sozio-ökonomische “Polnische Ordnung” [Consumption, Conservatism and State Capitalism – the PiS Party Brings the New Socio-Cconomic “Polish Order”]. In: Polen-Analysen 284, pp. 2–6.
Michael Martin Richter (2021): Die Ukraine auf dem Weg zum Rechts- oder Präsidentenstaat [Ukraine on the way towards a presidential or rule of law state]. In: Ukraineanalysen no. 256, October 2021.
Michael Martin Richter (2021, July 5): KMU in Russland: Wie Unternehmergeist wecken und fördern? [SMEs in Russia: how to awake and develop entrepreneurial spirit?]. Zaren, Daten, Fakten Podcast. German Chamber of Commerce (AHK) in Russia.
Michael Martin Richter (2021): Radiophobia - Why the Fallout of Unscientific Myths from Chernobyl Still Prevails. In: New Eastern Europe No 5/2021, pp. 141-146.
Michael Martin Richter (2021): Russische kleine und mittlere Unternehmen (KMUs) in der Corona-Krise – Ein Sterben auf Raten [Russian SMEs Dring COVID – a Death in Tranches]. In: Russland-Analysen no. 404.
Michael Richter (2021): Das Moskauer Damoklesschwert - Zum Verhältnis zwischen der EU und Russland, [Moscow’s Sword of Damocles – on the Relations Between EU and Russia]. In: WeltTrends, No.176, pp. 58-61.
Michael Richter (2021, February 8): The battle of Nord Stream 2 narratives, Ridl.io.
Michael Richter, Mikhail Polianskii (2020): Belarus: Strategisch gefangen, [Belarus: Strategically Iocked]. In: WeltTrends, No.170, pp. 9-14.
Michael Richter, Jakub Bartoszewski (2020): Dirigisme 2.0 – The Way to Go for the Region? In: New Eastern Europe, No. 5/2020, pp. 98-106.
Janis Kluge, Michael Richter (2020, March 20): The Lisbon-Vladivostok Illusion. Op-ed, Ridl.io.