Andrey Makarychev is Professor of Regional Political Studies at the University of Tartu Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies. He teaches courses on "Globalization", "Political Systems in post-Soviet Space", "Regional Integration in post-Soviet Space", "Visual Politics", and “The Essentials of Biopolitics”. He is the author of Popular Biopolitics and Populism at Europe’s Eastern Margins (Brill, 2022), and co-authored four monographs: Celebrating Borderlands in a Wider Europe: Nations and Identities in Ukraine, Georgia and Estonia (Nomos, 2016), Lotman's Cultural Semiotics and the Political (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017), Critical Biopolitics of the Post-Soviet: from Populations to Nations (Lexington Books, 2020) and Practical Biopolitics of COVID-19: Comparing Russian and Indonesian Experiences (Lexington Books, 2023). He co-edited several academic volumes: Mega Events in post-Soviet Eurasia: Shifting Borderlines of Inclusion and Exclusion (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), Vocabularies of International Relations after the Crisis in Ukraine (Routledge, 2017); Borders in the Baltic Sea Region: Suturing the Ruptures (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). His articles have been published in such academic journals as Slavic Review, Journal of International Relations and Development, Political Geography, Slavic Military Review, Eurasian Geography and Economics, Alternatives, Nationalities Papers, Journal of Borderland Studies, among others.