Leng, Ning and Elizabeth Plantan. 2025. “Disappearing Research: Academic Control and Self-Censorship in China.” The China Journal. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1086/735160
Elizabeth Plantan, Wendy Leutert, and Austin Strange. 2025. “Pivoting to Overseas Development: International NGOs' Changing Engagement with China.” International Affairs 101(2): 543-564. https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiae319
Strange, Austin, Elizabeth Plantan, and Wendy Leutert. 2024. “Complementary Partners? Attitudes toward Multi-Actor Development Projects in the Democratic Republic of Congo.” The Journal of Politics 86(4): 1446-1461. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1086/729934
Leutert, Wendy, Elizabeth Plantan, and Austin Strange. 2023. “Puzzling Partnerships: Overseas Infrastructure Development by Chinese State-Owned Enterprises and Humanitarian Organizations.” Studies in Comparative International Development 58: 195-223. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12116-022-09368-7
Henry, Laura and Elizabeth Plantan. 2022. “Activism in Exile: How Russian Environmentalists Maintain Voice after Exit.” Post-Soviet Affairs 38(4): 274-292. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1060586X.2021.2002629
Plantan, Elizabeth. 2022. “Not All NGOs are Treated Equally: Selectivity in Civil Society Management in China and Russia,” Comparative Politics 54(3): 501-524. https://doi.org/10.5129/001041522X16258376563887
Plantan, Elizabeth. 2018. “Mass Mobilization in China and Russia: From Unexpected Victories to Unintended Consequences,” Russian Politics 3(4): 513-547.https://doi.org/10.1163/2451-8921-00304004
Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters
Evans, Alfred B. and Elizabeth Plantan. 2022. “Civil Society and Social Movements.” In Darrell Slider, ed., Putin's Russia, 8th Edition. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
Plantan, Elizabeth. 2020. “A Tale of Two Laws: Managing Foreign Agents and Overseas NGOs in Russia and China.” In Karrie J. Koesel, Valerie J. Bunce, and Jessica C. Weiss, eds., Citizens and the State in Authoritarian Regimes: Comparing China and Russia. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Plantan, Elizabeth. 2015. “Protecting Cultural Heritage: Unexpected Successes for Environmental Movements in China and Russia.” In Carol Hager and Mary Alice Haddad, eds., NIMBY is Beautiful: Cases of Local Activism and Environmental Innovation Around the World. New York, NY: Berghahn Books.
Book Manuscript in Preparation Friends or Foes?: Authoritarian Politics and Environmental Activism in China and Russia
Selected Works in Progress
“Environmental Activism & Party Politics in Electoral Authoritarian Russia”
“Funding 'Foreign Agents' in Russia” with Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom
“Should We Stay or Should We Go?: How International Foundations Respond to Restrictions in Authoritarian Contexts”
(Note: Work that is currently under review has been omitted from this list to preserve anonymity)
Book Reviews
“Book Review: Libman, Alexander, and Michael Rochlitz. Federalism in China and Russia: Story of Success and Story of Failure," Russian Review, 80(2). 2021.
“Book Review: Ellen Mickiewicz, No Illusions: The Voices of Russia’s Future Leaders,” The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, 42(2). 2015.
Public Scholarship
“Environmental Activism in Russia since the 2022 Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine.” Russian Analytical Digest, No. 324. 28 February 2025.
“Is There More Hope or More Fear Among Russia's Exiled Activists After the August 2024 Prisoner Swap?” PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 924. 16 December 2024.
“Green Collaboration: International NGOs and Chinese Partners Promoting Sustainable Overseas Investments.” (with Wendy Leutert and Austin Strange) New Security Beat, a blog of The Wilson Center. 11 April 2024.
“Transnational Civil Society & Authoritarian Politics in China and Russia.” 2022-2023 Wilson China Fellowship Essays.The Wilson Center. October 2023.
“Putin Called Fleeing Russians 'Traitors.' Who's Actually Leaving?” (with Laura Henry) The Washington Post. 31 March 2022.
“Opportunities and Constraints for Civil Society in China.” Harvard Ash Center CommuniquéMagazine. 8 December 2021.
“Partnering for Overseas Development: International NGOs' Changing Engagement with China.” (with Wendy Leutert and Austin Strange) Harvard Fairbank Center Blog. 29 June 2020.
“Comparing Recent NGO Laws in Russia and China: Do Russia’s Laws Foreshadow China’s Future?” ChinaFile: The China NGO Project. 10 August 2017.
“Putin Joins the Climate Change Deniers.” (with Peter Rutland) Transitions Online. 18 April 2017.
“Rising Temperatures.” The New York Times. 12 September 2012. Appeared in print in: TheInternational Herald Tribune. 13 September 2012. Page 6.
“Deep Trouble.” Transitions Online. 10 February 2010. Reprinted as: “A Setback for Russia’s Lake Baikal.” Business Week (now Bloomberg). 12 February 2010.