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 • Armed conflicts
 • Terrorism
 • Insurgency
 • Human security
 • Peace processes
 • Peace-building
 • Political economy of conflicts
 
 
 
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RECENT ARTICLES: 
 
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Stepanova E. Ceasefires
as a part of war, peace process, or a ‘no peace, no war’ format,
International Trends, vol. 21, no. 1(72) (2023), pp. 4374. 
 
 
 
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Stepanova E.
Russia, Central Asia and
non-traditional security threats from Afghanistan following the US withdrawal,
Global Policy, vol. 13, no. 1 (2022), pp. 138145. 
 
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Stepanova E.
Foreign Terrorist Fighters from Russia in and after Syria and Iraq:
(Trans) National Trends and Threats, in Studies in Conflict and Terrorism,
vol. 46, no. 11 (2023), pp. 22142240. 
 
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RECENT CHAPTERS: 
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Stepanova E., Russia: Beyond the Global South-North Framework, in
Transforming
the War on Drugs: Warriors, Victims and Vulnerable Regions (London: Hurst, 2021),
pp. 253296. 
 
 
 
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Stepanova E., 
Terrorism
in the Russian Empire, in The
Cambridge History of Terrorism (Cambridge University Press, 2021), pp. 284312. 
 
 
 
 
 
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Stepanova E., 
Terrorism
in post-Soviet Russia, in The
Cambridge History of Terrorism (Cambridge University Press, 2021), pp. 313332. 
 
 
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RECENT ARTICLES: 
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Stepanova E. 
Peace process:
on substantive definition, World Economy and International Relations,
vol. 66, no. 9 (2022), pp. 518. 
 
 
 
 
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Stepanova E. and Golunov S., 
Peace
processes, violence, and de facto states: introduction,
 Pathways to Peace and Security, no. 1(62), Special Issue:
Peace
Processes, Violence, and De Facto States (2022), pp. 729. 
 
 
 
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Stepanova E.,
Russia
and the search for a negotiated solution in Afghanistan,
in Europe-Asia Studies, vol. 73, no. 5 (2021), pp. 928952. 
 
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