Markku Kivinen
Markku Kivinen is Professor of Sociology and since 1996 Director of the Aleksanteri Institute at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Kivinen's academic focus is on social theory, Russian domestic and foreign policy, transition studies in comparative perspective, social inequality, power and democracy. Since 2012, Kivinen leads one of the Academy of Finland's Centres of Excellence in Research "Choices of Russian Modernisation". Kivinen is the editor of the Routledge Series Studies of Contemporary Russia. Besides, he has published two novels. Betongötter (Secession Verlag 2014) has been published in German and Diplomatic Endgame is forthcoming in German and Russian translations.