Iurii has taught courses on foreign policy analysis, EU foreign policy, political regimes, post-Soviet studies, political sociology, and comparative political science at the European University at St. Petersburg, RANEPA, and HSE St. Petersburg. From 2018 to 2022, he was a Research Fellow at the Laboratory for Public Policy Analysis. In 2019, he served as a Research Fellow at the Aleksanteri Institute in Finland and was a Visiting Fellow at the European University Institute in Italy in 2015.
Currently, Iurii focuses on studying the foreign policy of the European Union and Russian foreign policy rhetoric using programming and quantitative methods with R and Python. His academic interests include European studies, foreign policy analysis, EU foreign policy, the dynamics of political regimes in the post-Soviet space, public policy analysis, and the application of scraping, parsing, and quantitative data analysis techniques.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Center for Institutional Analysis of Science & Education, European University at St. Petersburg, April-October 2022, Research Fellow
Department of Political Science, European University at St. Petersburg, September 2022 – December 2022, Lecturer
Department of Political Science, Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg, September 2019 – May 2022, Lecturer
Laboratory for Public Policy Analysis, Faculty of International Relations and Politics,
North-Western Institute of Management, RANEPA, September 2018 – February 2022, Research Fellow
Department of Comparative Political Studies, Faculty of International Relations and Politics, North-Western Institute of Management, RANEPA, September 2017 – February 2022, Lecturer
Department of Comparative Political Studies, North-Western Institute of Management, RANEPA, January 2016 – August 2017, Deputy Dean
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
- Dyachenko, E., Agafonov, I., Guba, K., & Gelvikh, A. (2024). Independent Russian medical science: is there any?. Scientometrics, 129(9), 5577-5597 (in English).
- Agafonov I., Sokolov M. (2023) Russian Political Science in 2021: a Survey. Polis. Political Studies (in Russian).
- Agafonov I. (2018) Unintended Consequences of Europeanization: European Neighborhood Policy and Political Regimes of Eastern Partnership Countries. Foreign Policy and International Affairs of the European Union: Comprehending the Role of the EU in the World, pp. 127-146 (in Russian).
- Agafonov I., Lepele V. (2016) The “Golden Doors” to Russian Business Elite: The Recruitment Process and the Structural Transformation of Large-scale Business in Post-Soviet Russia. Mir Rossii, vol. 25, no 3, pp. 97-125 (in Russian)
- Agafonov I. (2015) Strategies of Elites of Eastern Partnership Countries as a Factor of Implementation of the European Neighborhood Policy: Theoretical Approach Revisited. International Organisations Research Journal, no. 4, pp. 115-130 (in Russian, in English)
- Agafonov I. (2015) European Neighborhood Policy’s Impact on Political Regimes of Eastern Partnership Countries. MEMO Journal, no. 10, pp. 40-49 (in Russian)
