Alexandra Goujon

Alexandra Goujon (born 1 June 1972) is a French political scientist. She is a professor of political science at the University of Burgundy. She specializes in political conflict and regime change in Eastern Europe, particularly Ukraine and Belarus.

Education and early work Goujon attended the University of Tours and the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, where she studied economic and social administration. She obtained an MA degree in political science in 1994, also at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. Her thesis was entitled Nationalisme et démocratie à la fin de l'URSS: les fronts populaires d'Ukraine et de Biélorussie (1988-1991) (Nationalism and democracy at the end of the USSR: the popular fronts of Ukraine and Belarus 1988-1991).

In 2009, Goujon published the book Révolutions politiques et identitaires en Ukraine et en Biélorussie (1988-2008) which arose from her doctoral dissertation. The academic Anna Colin Lebedev wrote that Révolutions politiques et identitaires gave a complete and precise presentation of the institutional and political evolution of Ukraine and Belarus, from the last years of the USSR. The book uses the political and geographic closeness of the two countries to study their comparative political evolutions. Andrei Stsiapanau wrote that Alexandra Goujon uses works on the USSR and its major satellites for periods that have been under-researched.

Goujon is a regular contributor to new outlets including France Culture, RTL, France Inter, and La Croix.

Selected works Parlons biélorussien: langue et culture, with Virginie Symaniec, L'Harmattan, 2000 Chroniques sur la Biélorussie contemporaine, with Virginie Symaniec and Jean-Charles, 2001 Révolutions politiques et identitaires en Ukraine et en Biélorussie (1988-2008), Belin, 2009. Les démocraties: institutions, fonctionnements et défilés, Armand Colin, 2015. Les partis politiques, ateliers de la démocratie, with Dominique Andolfatto, Éditions de l'Université de Bruxelles, 2016.