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B.A., M.A. (V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University)

M.A. (Central European University)

Ph.D. (National University of Singapore)

Prof. (Dr.) Oleksandr Svitych

Associate Professor

Email osvitych@jgu.edu.in
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ORCID ID 0000-0002-4513-4489
Key Expertise International relations, political economy, critical theory, populism, identity, algorithmic governance

B.A., M.A. (V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University)

M.A. (Central European University)

Ph.D. (National University of Singapore)

Biography

Oleksandr Svitych is an Associate Professor at O.P. Jindal Global University, School of International Affairs. His research interests lie at the intersection of international relations, political economy, and critical social theory. He is the author of the monograph on populism, “The Rise of the Capital-state and Neo-nationalism: A New Polanyian Moment,” published by Brill. His research also appeared in Millennium, Critical Policy Studies, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, Review of International Political Economy, and Globalizations, among others.

Currently, Dr. Svitych is developing a critical research agenda on algorithmic governance. In particular, he is working on his second book for the Routledge “Frontiers of Political Economy” series. The project’s novelty lies in combining the Frankfurt School of critical theory with the cutting-edge “quantum turn” in International Relations.

Dr. Svitych is committed to critical and engaged pedagogy by emphasizing the liberating function of education. At JSIA, he has taught courses on populism, critical political economy, political philosophy, algorithmic governance, and the Russo-Ukrainian war. In addition to social sciences, he finds meaning in his family, development work, and martial arts.

Critical Political Economy (elective)

Populism (elective)

Political Philosophy I (core)

Political Philosophy II (core)

Russo-Ukrainian War: Decoloniality, Reflexivity, Agency

Algorithms and AI: Critical Perspectives
 

2018, Early Career Researchers Workshop, Auckland, New Zealand

2018, Mobility Grant, Sciences Po, France

2017, 10th Next-Generation Global Workshop, Kyoto, Japan

2015, Lee Kong Chian Scholarship Award, National University of Singapore

2005, Undergraduate exchange program (UGRAD), Concordia College, Moorhead, MN, USA

Team member of the Jean Monnet Chair RADAR project (2024-2026)

Svitych, Oleksandr. (2025). Blind transparency: A critical discourse analysis of the EU AI Act. Critical Policy Studies. Online first.

Svitych, Oleksandr. (2025). Algorithms and IR: Towards a critical quantum theory. Millennium: Journal of International Studies. Online first.

Svitych, Oleksandr. (2024). Amartya Sen, Karl Polanyi, and Universal Basic Income. Journal of Human Development and Capabilities 25(1), 42–60.

Svitych, Oleksandr. (2024). “Economic empowerment and resilience in India: A post-Polanyian perspective.” Forthcoming in: Steven High and Indranil Chakraborty, Towards the Global Study of Deindustrialization and Economic Restructuring: The Case of India. London and New York: Routledge.

Svitych, Oleksandr. (2023). Development for whom? The case of USAID in Ukraine’s Donbas. Review of International Political Economy 30(6), 2406–2422.

Svitych, Oleksandr. (2023). “Beyond the pandemic: the promise of degrowth in the Global South.” In: Hebatallah Adam Political Economy of Development in the Global South Post-Covid19 Pandemic, pp. 3–28. Singapore: Springer.

Svitych, Oleksandr. (2022). The Rise of the Capital-state and Neo-nationalism: A New Polanyian Moment. Brill.

Svitych, Oleksandr. (2021). The rise of the capital-state: a new Polanyian moment. Globalizations 18(4), 617–634.

Svitych, Oleksandr. (2021). Voting for Jobbik and Front National: Nostalgic, Deprived, and Status-Frustrated. European Review of International Studies 8(1), 49–76.

Svitych, Oleksandr. (2021). Northeast Asian modern martial arts: An embodied synthesis of virtue ethics and deontology. The International Journal of the History of Sport 38(7), 751–767.
Email osvitych@jgu.edu.in
ORCID ID 0000-0002-4513-4489
Key Expertise International relations, political economy, critical theory, populism, identity, algorithmic governance