He is regarded as one of the leading Western authorities on the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe (social and political aspects), Lukashenko's regime in Belarus, and contemporary Ukraine. In 2014 he published Our Glorious Past': Lukashenka's Belarus and the Great Patriotic War', "the product of an Insight Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. In 2017, he published " 'Ukraine in Conflict' "with E-International Relations Publishing. In 2020, he co-edited a book with Aya Fujiwara entitled Hiroshima-75: Nuclear Issues in Global Contexts," "published by Ibidem-Verlag, and the result of a conference at the University of Alberta. Also in 2020, he published "Understanding Ukraine and Belarus, a memoir about his career as a scholar of these states.