La Chaire de la Politique européenne de voisinage mène des recherches sur la politique étrangère et de sécurité de l’Union européenne et des États membres de l’UE vis-à-vis du voisinage (élargi) de l’UE – à l’Est et au Sud – avec une attention particulière sur la transposition des normes, valeurs, règles et règlements de l’UE ainsi que sur la gestion des conflits, et travaille également sur la transition politique et économique et les conflits dans les 16 voisins de l’UE.

Les projets de recherches actuels et passés ont traité du droit et des politiques d’association dans le contexte de la Politique européenne de voisinage de l’UE et de son Partenariat oriental respectivement, son impact sur les pays partenaires du voisinage, la promotion par l’UE de la démocratie et des droits de l’homme, le respect par les voisins des normes et règles de l’UE, la gouvernance de l’UE et des États membres en matière de migration, le discours des relations extérieures de l’UE, le tournant de la résilience dans la politique étrangère de l’UE, les politiques de reconnaissance dans le voisinage de l’UE, les politiques de désinformation en Europe de l’Est, les réformes politiques et les changements de régime en Europe de l’Est et dans le Sud de la Méditerranée.

Kateryna WOLCZUK

Domaines de recherche et expertise :

• Domestic politics, political regimes and reforms in Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova
• EU’s policy towards the eastern neighbourhood countries
• Russia’s policy towards the eastern neighbourhood countries
• Design and implementation of the European Neighbourhood Policy
• National and ethnic identities, nation-building and nationalism

Articles :

• ‘Hegemony without Leadership: Russia’s strategy in the post-Soviet space’, Brown Journal of World Affairs, Fall/Winter, XXVIII(1), 2022 
• ‘Mind the Gap: Role Expectations and Perceived Performance of the EU in the South Caucasus’, Eurasian Geography and Economics, 2020 [with L. Delcour]  
• ‘State building and European integration in Ukraine’, Eurasian Geography and Economics, 2019, 60(4).  
• ‘Well-Meaning but Ineffective? Perceptions of the EU as Role as a Security Actor in the South Caucasus’. European Foreign Affairs Review, 2018, 23(1) [with L. Delcour

Livres :   

• The Ukraine Conflict: Security, Identity and Politics in the Wider Europe, co-edited with D. Averre (Routledge: London and New York, 2017)   
• Beyond geopolitics: exploring the impact of the EU and Russia in the “contested neighborhood”. Special Issue of the Eurasian Geography and Economics, 57(1), 2016 [guest co-edited with Ademmer, E. (Germany) & Delcour, L. (France)]  
• Ukraine between the EU and Russia: The Integration Challenge (Palgrave Pivot, 2015) [with R. Dragneva]  
• Eurasian Economic Integration: Law, Policy, and Politics, co-edited with R. Dragneva (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2013)  
• Ethnic Diversity, Muticulturalism and Xenophobia in post-Communist Societies, Special Issue of Nationalities Papers (May 2008) [guest edited with G. Yemelianova].   
• Region, State and Identity in Central and Eastern Europe, co-edited with J. Batt (Frank Cass, 2002)  
• The Moulding of Ukraine: The Constitutional Politics of State Formation (Budapest: CEU Press, 2002).

Andriy TYUSHKA

• The European Union and its Eastern Neighbourhood: Whither ‘Eastern Partnership’?, London and New York: Routledge, 2022 (eds.) (with Tobias Schumacher).

• Security Challenges at the EU’s Eastern Border: Which Role for CSDP?, DG EXPO In-Depth Analysis, PE 653.653, Brussels: European Parliament Subcommittee on Security and Defence, January 2022 (with Tracey German).

• Future (Un)Simple: The Crossroads of the Eastern Partnership and the EU-Ukraine Differentiated Integration post-2020, Ukrayinskyy Almanakh [The Ukrainian Almanac], 280-294, 2021.

• Weaponizing Narrative: Russia Contesting EUrope’s Liberal Identity, Power and Hegemony, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 2021, DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2021.1883561.

• Is the EU politically committed to its Eastern Partners?, Judy Dempsey’s Strategic Europe Blog – Carnegie Europe, December 2021. 

• Revolutionary Constitutionalism: Constitutional Order, Contentious Constitutional Politics, and Participatory Constitutional Change in Ukraine since 1990, in Kuepper, H., Obata, K. and Ismatov, A. (eds.)  Constitutionalism in Eurasia, München: Institut für Ostrecht (IOS) / Institute for East European Law, 2021.

• Democratic Transition, Europeanization, and Other Metamorphoses of Central and Eastern Europe: An EU Member State-Building Perspective, in: Kushnir, O. and  Pankieiev, O. (eds.) Meandering in Transition, Lanham, MA: Lexington Books, pp.185-206, 2021.

• Rethinking the Governance-Governmentality-Governability Nexus at the EU’s Eastern Frontiers: The Carpathian Euroregion 2.0 and the Future of EU-Ukrainian Cross-Border Cooperation, Eastern Journal of European Studies, 11 (Special Issue), 2020: 146-183 (with H. LYTYYN).
• Twists and Turns of Democratic Transition and Europeanization in East-Central Europe since 1989: Betwixt EU Member and Neighbour State-Building, Croatian Yearbook of European Law and Policy, 16(1), 2020.
• Future (Un)Simple: The Crossroads of the Eastern Partnership and the EU-Ukraine Differentiated Integration post-2020, Ukrayinskyy Almanakh, 2020.
• States, International Organizations and Strategic Partnerships, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2019 (with L. CZECHOWSKA). Polish edition: Państwa, Organizacje Międzynarodowe i Partnerstwa Strategiczne, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika, 2019.
• Strategic Partnerships, International Politics and IR Theory, in L. CZECHOWSKA, A. TYUSHKA, et al. (eds.)  States, International Organizations and Strategic Partnerships, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2019, pp. 8-43 (with L. CZEWCHOWSKA).
• States, International Organizations and Strategic Partnerships: Theorizing an 'Ideal Model', in L. CZECHOWSKA, A. TYUSHKA, et al. (eds.) States, International Organizations and Strategic Partnerships, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2019, pp. 44-80 (with L. CZECHOWSKA, A. DOMACHOWSKA, K. GAWRON-TABOR, and J. PIECHOWIAK-LAMPARSKA).
• Model Specification and Operationalization: The Basic Correlates of Strategic Partnerships, in L. CZECHOWSKA, A. TYUSHKA, et al. (eds.) States, International Organizations and Strategic Partnerships, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2019, pp. 81-165 (with L. CZECHOWSKA, A. DOMACHOWSKA, K. GAWRON-TABOR, and J. PIECHOWIAK-LAMPARSKA).
• An Evolving NATO-Ukraine Strategic Partnership in a Turbulent Security Environment, in L. CZECHOWSKA, A. TYUSHKA, et al. (eds.) States, International Organizations and Strategic Partnerships, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2019, pp. 204-233.
• The Development vs Geo-economics Nexus in the CAN-China Interactionism, in L. CZECHOWSKA, A. TYUSHKA, et al. (eds.) States, International Organizations and Strategic Partnerships, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2019, pp. 414-439.
• Macroeconomic Convergence and Strategic (Ir)relevance Trap in the CAN-Brazilian Interactionism in L. CZECHOWSKA, A. TYUSHKA, et al. (eds.) States, International Organizations and Strategic Partnerships, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2019, pp. 440-465.
• Hybrid War(fare): The Challenge of Contagion, Torun International Studies, 12(1), 2019: 5-29.

• Middle Power Assertiveness as a Behavioural Model in Foreign Policy, in: T. STRUYE DE SWIELANDE, D. VANDAMME, D. WALTON, and T. WILKINS (eds.), Rethinking Middle Powers in the Asian Century: New Theories, New Cases (pp. 122-134). London: Routledge, 2019.

• Semi-Presidential Systems, in: Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law (MPECCoL), Oxford University Press, 2019.

• The Implementation of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement: Addressing the Law and Politics of Effective Implementation and Application of the Association acquis. In: ZYGIEREWICZ, Anna (ed.), Association Agreements between the EU and Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine, Brussels: European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS), 2018, pp. 161-241.

• Seeking the Eastern Partnership’s greatest integer, New Eastern Europe magazine, Issue 2, 2018, pp. 87-93.

• Russian Geopolitical Narratives from "Geopolitics 101" to Postmodern Revisionism: Implications for the Baltic-Pontic Region, Global Affairs, 2018.

• Association-cum-Integration: The EU-Ukraine Association Agreement and the ‘Association Law’ as an Institution of Ukraine’s European Integration, Croatian Yearbook of European Law and Policy, Vol 13, 2018, pp. 87-132.
• 'Hacking' into the West: Russia's 'Anti-Hegemonic' Drive and the Strategic Narrative Offensive, Defence Strategic Communications of NATO StratCom COE, Volume 2, Spring 2017, pp. 35-60 (with James ROGERS).
• Aggression against Ukraine, East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies, Vol 4, No 1, 2017, pp. 179-192.
• The Concept of 'International Role' in International Relations Theory and Practice: The 'PIPP' Analytical Model and Roles Actors Play in World Politics, Athenaeum: Polish Political Science Studies, vol. 52/2016, pp. 27-53.
• From a 'hybrid war' to a 'hybrid peace'? Implications of Russian irregular warfare in Ukraine for international security, Panorama of Global Security Environment 2015-2016, Bratislava, STRATPOL, 2016, pp. 61-70.
• Russia's 'anti-hegemonic' offensive: A new strategy in action, Diplomaatia, No. 160, December 2016 (with James ROGERS).
• Building the Neighbours: EU’s New Association Agreements and Structural Power in the Eastern Neighbourhood, Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, 24(2), 2016.
• From Constitutional Volatility to Constitutional Stability: Any Chance to Reconcile Constitutionalism and Power Struggle in Ukraine?, Historia i Polityka, 16(23): 57-71, 2016.
• Trust, Truth, and Truce Trapped in Hybridity of Modern Inter-State Conflicts: An Early Assessment of the Russo-Western Proxy War in Ukraine, The Copernicus Journal of Political Studies, 7(1): 7-29, 2015.
• Association through Approximation: Procedural Law and Politics of Legislative and Regulatory Approximation in the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement, Baltic Journal of European Studies, 5(1): 56-72, 2015.
• Empowered to Deliver: The Institutional Model and Implementation Arrangements under the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement, Romanian Journal of European Affairs, 15(1): 5-22, 2015.
• Maidan’s doomsday: Fierce laws, farce amnesty and furiously faithful people in Ukraine, GeoPolitika.lt, 27 February 2014.
• A liberationist constitution? Maidan’s revolutionary agenda and challenges for constitutional reform in Ukraine, European View, Vol. 13, Issue 1, 2014.