J R Neumeier

I am from Idaho, USA, but I have been studying and/or living in the UK since 2018, completing my BA(Hons) in International Relations and Politics at the University of Portsmouth, and then a Master of Research in Politics also at Portsmouth, researching nation-building and national identity regime discourses in Kazakhstan. My area research focus is on Russia and Kazakhstan, with a particular interest on alternative forms of legitimation for non-democratic regimes, such as through de-politicisation, political culture, and regime discourses.