New research about cosmopolitan nationalism in education is published

Our lab’s latest research has been published in European Educational Research Journal. The article, titled “From global integration to sovereign education: Russia’s policy evolution (1992–2025),” co-authored by PhD student Margarita Kiryushina, Prof. Miri Yemini, and Prof. Claire Maxwell (University of Copenhagen), examines how Russian school-level education policy has transformed over three decades through the framework of cosmopolitan nationalism. Using documentary analysis and expert interviews, the study traces Russia’s movement through four distinct periods, from post-Soviet integration into global educational frameworks to the current “sovereign education” model, revealing unprecedented mobility across cosmopolitan nationalism quadrants. The research demonstrates how nations can rapidly shift between nationalist and cosmopolitan orientations in education policy, even pursuing nationalist objectives while utilizing global educational frameworks during periods of international isolation.