Pål Kolstø

2.1k total citations
77 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Pål Kolstø is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Cultural Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Pål Kolstø has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 31 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 11 papers in Cultural Studies. Recurrent topics in Pål Kolstø's work include Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics (27 papers), European Politics and Security (16 papers) and Soviet and Russian History (13 papers). Pål Kolstø is often cited by papers focused on Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics (27 papers), European Politics and Security (16 papers) and Soviet and Russian History (13 papers). Pål Kolstø collaborates with scholars based in Norway, United States and United Kingdom. Pål Kolstø's co-authors include Helge Blakkisrud, Nina Caspersen, Lee J. M. Seymour, Scott Pegg, Ulrich Schmid, Harris Mylonas, David D. Laitin and Einar Wigen and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Geoforum and Journal of Peace Research.

In The Last Decade

Pål Kolstø

70 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Peers

Pål Kolstø
Yuri Slezkine United States
Stefan Wolff United Kingdom
Stef Jansen Austria
Roger D. Petersen United States
Nadje Al‐Ali United Kingdom
Bülent Diken United Kingdom
John Coakley Ireland
Helen Fein Spain
Jelena Subotić United States
Juliet Hooker United States
Yuri Slezkine United States
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Countries citing papers authored by Pål Kolstø

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Fields of papers citing papers by Pål Kolstø

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pål Kolstø

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All Works

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Laitin, David D., Pål Kolstø, & Harris Mylonas. (2025). Exchange on David Laitin’s Identity in Formation. Nationalities Papers. 53(4). 737–754.
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Kolstø, Pål & Helge Blakkisrud. (2021). Russia’s Neighborhood Policy and Its Eurasian Client States: No Autocracy Export. Russia in Global Affairs. 19(2). 38–62. 4 indexed citations
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Kolstø, Pål. (2020). Biting the hand that feeds them? Abkhazia–Russia client–patron relations. Post-Soviet Affairs. 36(2). 140–158. 33 indexed citations
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Kolstø, Pål. (2019). Dmitrii Medvedev's Commission Against the Falsification of History: Why Was It Created and What Did It Achieve? A Reassessment. The Slavonic and East European Review. 97(4). 738–738. 2 indexed citations
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Kolstø, Pål & Helge Blakkisrud. (2018). Russia before and after Crimea : nationalism and identity, 2010-17. Edinburgh University Press eBooks. 15 indexed citations
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Kolstø, Pål & Helge Blakkisrud. (2017). Regime Development and Patron–Client Relations: The 2016 Transnistrian Presidential Elections and the “Russia Factor”. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University). 7 indexed citations
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Kolstø, Pål. (2016). Symbol of the War — But Which One? The St George Ribbon in Russian Nation-Building. The Slavonic and East European Review. 94(4). 660–660. 14 indexed citations
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Kolstø, Pål. (2016). Russland blir til. Fra vikingene til Ivan den grusomme. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 30(1).
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Kolstø, Pål. (2016). Strategies of Symbolic Nation-building in South Eastern Europe. 18 indexed citations
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Kolstø, Pål & Ulrich Schmid. (2013). Fame, Sainthood and Iurodstvo : Patterns of Self-Presentation in Tolstoi's Life Practice. Alexandria (UniSG) (University of St.Gallen). 1 indexed citations
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Kolstø, Pål, et al.. (2012). Power differentials and identity formation: Images of self and other on the Russian–Georgian boundary. National Identities. 14(2). 139–155. 10 indexed citations
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Kolstø, Pål. (2011). The Croatian Catholic Church And The Long Road To Jasenovac. 24(1). 37–56. 1 indexed citations
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Kolstø, Pål. (2008). Nationalism, ethnic conflict, and job competition: non‐Russian collective action in the USSR under perestroika†. Nations and Nationalism. 14(1). 151–169. 4 indexed citations
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Kolstø, Pål. (2006). The Sustainability and Future of Unrecognized Quasi-States. Journal of Peace Research. 43(6). 723–740. 214 indexed citations
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Kolstø, Pål. (2002). National integration and violent conflict in post-Soviet societies : the cases of Estonia and Moldova. Rowman & Littlefield eBooks. 39 indexed citations
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Kolstø, Pål. (2001). Russian Diasporas in the "Near Abroad": Implications for International Peace. Diaspora A Journal of Transnational Studies. 10(2). 297–305. 1 indexed citations
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Kolstø, Pål. (1996). The new Russian diaspora ‐ an identity of its own? Possible identity trajectories for Russians in the former Soviet republic. Ethnic and Racial Studies. 19(3). 609–639. 46 indexed citations
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Kolstø, Pål. (1993). The New Russian Diaspora: Minority Protection in the Soviet Successor States. Journal of Peace Research. 30(2). 197–217. 16 indexed citations

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