"Andrey Makarychev is Professor of Regional Political Studies at the University of Tartu, Estonia. The titles of his recent books – all co-authored with Alexandra Yatsyk - include ""Celebrating Borderlands in a Wider Europe: Nations and Identities in Ukraine, Georgia and Estonia"" (Nomos, 2016), ‘Lotman’s Cultural Semiotics and the Political"" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017) and ""Critical Biopolitics of the Post-Soviet: From Populations to Nations"" (Lexington Books, 2020)."