Johannes Socher is a postdoctoral research fellow at Freie Universität Berlin and is currently seconded to the German Federal Foreign Office as an academic adviser on rule of law assistance. Previously, he was a research fellow at the Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law and at the German Research Institute for Public Administration. He has two state examinations in German law, an M.Sc. in Law, Anthropology and Society from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an LL.M. as well as a Ph.D. in law from the German University of Administrative Sciences.
Socher's book is indispensable for understanding Soviet and Russian approaches to the principle of 'self-determination' and the understanding of ethnic conflicts [...] Socher's book is especially important following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, because it analyses and dismisses in international law the many claims and disinformation made by Russian leaders towards Crimea and Ukraine. This is an indispensable book for the teaching and study of Russian--Ukrainian relations * Taras Kuzio, Europe-Asia Studies * extensively researched monograph * Survival: Global Politics and Strategy *