Katharina Bluhm
Katharina Bluhm is Professor for Sociology and director of the Institute for East European Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. She has held previous appointments at the University of Osnabrück and has been a visiting scholar at Harvard, Berkeley and the National Research University – Higher School of Economics in Moscow. Her research interests focus on varieties of capitalism in Central and Eastern Europe, economic and political sociology. She is the author of Modernisation, Geopolitics and the New Russian Conservatives (Leviathan 1/2016), Machtgedanken. Ideologische Schlüsselkonzepte der neuen russischen Konservativen (Mittelweg 6/2016), and co-author of Business Leaders and the New Varieties of Capitalism in Post-Communist Europe (Routledge 2014).