Alexandra Bocharova

Welcome! My name is Alexandra and I am the HSE University Research Fellow and PhD 2nd-year PS student, who is keen on cyberpolicy, IR, Chinese & Propaganda Studies, as well as computational methods in social sciences.

Alexandra Bocharova

Contact me:

apbocharova@yandex.ru

Interests

National Policies in Cyberspace
China Studies
Propaganda Studies & Information Policy
International Relations
Computational Methods & NLP in Social Sciences

Education

MA in Political Science, NRU Higher School of Economics, 2019-2021
BA in Asian Studies, NRU Higher School of Economics, 2015-2019

SKILLS

Programming
R, Python (NumPy, Pandas, SciPy, Matplotlib, Seaborn, Scikit-Learn, XGBoost, TensorFlow, NLTK, bnlearn), Netlogo, Orange (version 3.3, 3.5), Spider, Stata
Research Methods
NLP, Econometrics, Discourse Analysis, SNA, Machine Learning (supervised learning)
Languages
Russian (native), English (proficient), German (upper intermediate), Chinese (proficient)

Research Projects

Strategic Analysis of social and political development and patterns of foreign policy behaviour of Asian states

Analysis of the socio-political attitudes of Chinese social media users on the issue of foreign and domestic political development of the country

Teaching

2023-2024
Foundations of Foreign Policy analysis (seminars)
Political History and Modern Development of China (seminars)
Foreign Policy Analysis (seminars)
International Relations: an Introduction to Profession (lectures)

2022-2023
Topical Problems of Modern Politics (seminars)
Foreign Policy Analysis (seminars)
Basics of Data Analysis in International Relations (seminars)
The Political Development of China (seminars)
Russia in Global Politics (seminars)

2021-2022
Political History of China (seminars)
Russia in Global Politics (seminars)

2020-2021
Russia in Global Politics (seminars)

2019-2020
Russia in Global Politics (seminars)

Research Publications

Bocharova, A. (2024). INFORMATION AND CYBERSECURITY POLICIES: CLASSIFICATION OF MEASURES AND FACTORS AND THE PROBLEM OF EVALUATING EFFECTIVENESS. World Economy and International Relations (in print)

Bocharova, A. & Kozlov, V. (2023). Trends in the Development of US–China Relations After the 2020 Presidential Election in the Context of the Information and Political Discourse of American Elites. China Report, Vol. 59, Issue 4, pp. 369-387.

Novikov, D., Bocharova, A. (2022). Eurasia in Russian and Chinese Political Expertise: a Comparative Analysis. Journal of Eurasian Studies (in print)

Bocharova, A.P. Report: Information Policy of Chinese Media during Political and COVID-related Crises: Comparative Analysis. ICA 2022 Regional Conference on Computational Communication Research in Central and Eastern Europe.

Kozlov V.O., Bocharova A.P. Tracks of US-China Relations’ Development in the Context of the discourse of the American elites. USA & Canada: Economics, Politics, Culture, 2021, Issue 10, pp. 91-107.

Bocharova A. P. Network Analysis of the Chinese Media on the Evidence from the Hong Kong Protest Movement / National Research University Higher School of Economics. Series WP BRP "Basic research program". 2020. No. 76. (preprint).

Alexandra Bocharova

apbocharova@yandex.ru