Witnessing Ukraine, Watersheds in the Balkans
Common threats unify. Unfortunately, the war on Ukraine had to happen to make clear what already should have been. As French President Emmanuel Macron explained, NATO went from being braindead…
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Belarus Protests Have Explosive Potential for EU-Russia Relations
(Carnegie Moscow Center) Belarus has been engulfed by protests ever since the contested presidential election back in August, and whatever happens, it seems things cannot ever just go back to the…
Transnistria’s European Drive: A Means to What End?
(Geopolitics) Abstract: This paper explores the geopolitical role that a de facto state may play while operating in the context of patron-client relations and engagement without recognition framework. This is especially pronounced…
The Advent of Biopolitics: Repercussion for the EU, Russia, and Eastern Partnership Countries
(3 DCTFAs) The COVID-19 had significantly changed the structure of world politics by shifting its core from issues of geopolitics to what in the academic literature for quite some time…
Global and Diffuse Risks in the Eastern Partnership Countries
(EU-LISTCO) This paper explores the extent to which global and diffuse risks impact the Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries of the EU’s Eastern neighbourhood and identifies tipping points at which risks can…
Symposium on Neighborhoods and Regionalisms | Articles by Andrey Makarychev
(NPSA | University of Chicago) The introduction to this symposium opens a discussion on the transformation of the liberal international order through studies of regions located at Europe’s margins, where new…
Ten Years of Eastern Partnership in Azerbaijan: Time to Take Serious Steps
(NYU Jordan Center) In 2009, Azerbaijan and five other former Soviet republics signed Eastern Partnership initiative with the European Union. This agreement marked the beginning of a new era of cooperation between…
Character Assassination as Strategic Communication in EU-Russia Relations
(Springer) (Co-authored by Sergei Samoilenko) This chapter examines character assassination as a set of strategies used by conflicting parties in international affairs. Specifically, it views character assassination as strategic communication embedded in…
Central Asia and the EU Connectivity Strategy: Rising to the Good Governance Challenge
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) The EU connectivity strategy for Eurasia, adopted by the European Council in October 2018, is the Union’s response to China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and its…
Studying European margins in the illiberal turn: a spacio-normative approach
(Journal of Contemporary European Studies) (Co-authored with Sandra Fernandes) Abstract: The aim of this special issue is to look at challenges to the EU and NATO and their relations and policies with both…