Shishkina, Alisa R.

Alisa R. Shishkina is a Junior Research Fellow at the Laboratory for Sociopolitical Destabilization Risks Monitoring, National Research University Higher School of Economics. Alisa Shishkina is an author of more than 20 scientific works, including monographs Egyptian Turmoil of the XXI Century (Moscow: Librokom, 2012, co-authored with L. M. Issaev), Syria and Yemen: Unfinished Revolutions (Moscow: Librokom, 2012, in collaboration with L. M. Issaev), The Arab World in the Digital Age: Social Media as a Form of Political Activity (Moscow: Librokom/URSS, 2014, co-authored with L. M. Issaev), System Monitoring of Global and Regional Risks: The Arab World after the Arab Spring (Moscow: Librokom/URSS, 2013, ed., together with A. V. Korotayev and L. M. Issaev), and System Monitoring Global and Regional Risks. Central Asia: New Challenges (Moscow: Librokom/URSS, 2013, ed., together with B. A. Akayeva, A. V. Korotayev, and L. M. Issaev). Her sphere of scientific in-terests includes human rights, democratic transition, political processes in the modern world, sociocultural development, media studies, and the risks of social and political instability.