Associate Professor

PhD, Princeton University

juliet.johnson@mcgill.ca

Research interests

Post-communist financial systems, Russian and Eastern European politics, democracy and the market, institutionalist theories, comparative politics, post-communist identity politics, and international political economy.

Selected publications

For a more complete list of publications, see Juliet Johnson's CV [.pdf].

A Fistful of Rubles: The Rise and Fall of the Russian Banking System (Cornell University Press 2000).

Religion and Identity in Modern Russia: The Revival of Orthodoxy and Islam (Ashgate 2005). Part of the Post-Soviet Politics series. Co-edited with Marietta Stepaniants and Benjamin Forest.

“The Limits of Europeanization: The Czech Republic, Poland, and European Monetary Integration,” in Kenneth Dyson and Martin Marcussen, The Changing Power and Politics of European Central Banking: Living with the Euro (Oxford University Press, 2009). Co-authored with Rachel Epstein.

“Uneven Integration: Economic and Monetary Union in Central and Eastern Europe,” Journal of Common Market Studies, forthcoming 2010. Co-authored with Rachel Epstein

“The Remains of Conditionality: The Faltering Enlargement of the Euro Zone,” Journal of European Public Policy 15:6 (2008): 826-842.

“Forbidden Fruit: Russia’s Uneasy Relationship with the Dollar,” Review of International Political Economy 15:3 (2008): 377-396.

“Two-Track Diffusion and Central Bank Embeddedness: The Politics of Euro Adoption in Hungary and the Czech Republic,” Review of International Political Economy 13:3 (2006), 361-386.

“Postcommunist Central Banks: A Democratic Deficit?” Journal of Democracy 17:1 (2006), 90-103.

“Pyrrhic Victories? The Implications of Success in Post-Communist Central Bank Transformation,” in Hilary Appel, ed., Evaluating Success and Failure in Postcommunist Reform (Keck Center Monograph Series, Claremont McKenna 2005).

“Post-Totalitarian National Identity: Public Memory in Germany and Russia,” Social and Cultural Geography 5:3 (2004), 357-380. Co-authored with Benjamin Forest and Karen Till.

“Past Dependency or Path Contingency? Institutional Design in Post-Communist Financial Systems,” in Grzegorz Ekiert and Stephen Hanson, eds., Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe: Assessing the Legacy of Communist Rule (Cambridge University Press 2003).

“Unraveling the Threads of History: Soviet-Era Monuments and Post-Soviet National Identity in Moscow,” The Annals of the Association of American Geographers 92:3 (2002), 524-547. Co-authored with Benjamin Forest.

“In Pursuit of a Prosperous International System,” in Peter Schraeder, ed., Exporting Democracy: Rhetoric vs. Reality (Lynne Rienner 2002).

“Path Contingency in Postcommunist Transformations,” Comparative Politics 33:3 (2001), 253-274.

“Misguided Autonomy: Central Bank Independence and the Russian Transition,” in Andreas Schedler, Larry Diamond, and Marc Plattner, eds., The Self-Restraining State: Power and Accountability in New Democracies (Lynne Rienner 1999).

“Russia’s Emerging Financial-Industrial Groups,” Post-Soviet Affairs 13:4 (1997), 333-365.

Current projects

Transnational Actors and Central Bank Transformation
This research project explores the role played by the transnational community of central bankers in actively guiding the transformation of post communist central banks. It combines a broad analysis of the transnational central banking community's training and technical assistance programs across the post-communist world with intensive comparative case studies of central bank development in Hungary, the Czech Republic, Russia, and Kyrgyzstan. This research seeks to illuminate the complex interactions between transnational networks and national sovereignty that characterize the process of financial globalization.

Monuments, Memorials and National Identity
Along with McGill geographer Benjamin Forest, I conduct research on contemporary Russian national identity by investigating the political struggles over Soviet-era monuments, memorial and museums. In particular, we explore how different sets of political elites have attempted to transform symbols of the Soviet Union into symbols of Russia, and how the Russian public has reacted to these efforts. We are now expanding this research to compare the political uses of public space in nation-building efforts across East Europe and Eurasia.