Dr Maxine David

About

Dr Maxine David is a Lecturer in the Institute for History, Faculty of Humanities at Leiden University, as well as Research Fellow at the Global Europe Centre. She is a Foreign Policy analyst, specialising in Russian and EU foreign policy.

Published works include Routledge’s May 2013 edited collection, National Perspectives on Russia: European Foreign Policy in the Making?; the January 2015 Special Issue “Modernisation in EU-Russian Relations, in European Politics and Society, for which Maxine was co-editor and single author of an article “New Social Media: Modernisation and Democratisation in Russia”. Open access online publications include “Learning from Crisis: The Challenge for the Euro-Atlantic States” in The Riga Conference Papers 2015: Towards Reassurance and Solidarity in the Euro-Atlantic Community (2015) (http://liia.lv/en/publications/riga-conference-papers-2015-towards-reassurance-an/) and various articles for The Conversation, to which Maxine is a regular contributor. She is currently working on a monograph to be published with Palgrave in 2016: The Triumph of Agency in Russia’s Foreign Policy. Rethinking the Power of Western Structures.

Maxine has an extensive and wide-ranging teaching portfolio and is currently teaching courses on EU-Russia Relations, the European Neighbourhood Policy and EU Today. She is a member of Pearson’s external stakeholder groups (ESAGs), advising on proposed reform to the UK’s A level for Politics.