Senior Research Fellow Dr Andriy TYUSHKA published his article: "The EU’s Shifting Engagement in War-Torn Ukraine throughout 2014–2024" in European Foreign Affairs Review

Dr Andriy TYUSHKA, Senior Research Fellow in the European Neighbourhood Chair at the College of Europe in Natolin, has just published an article in European Foreign Affairs Review (EFAR) on ‘The EU’s Shifting Engagement in War-Torn Ukraine throughout 2014–2024’. 

This article develops a conceptually informed account of the EU’s shift in actorness in conflict and crisis situations across its neighbourhood, probing into legal, political and performative aspects of the rationale and forms of such an engagement. 

First, it develops a conceptualization of the EU’s capacity to act in conflict and crisis management, considering both the EU’s values, (strategic) interests and (policy) objectives as constitutional and political imperatives to act. Then, it follows a goal-oriented framework (GOF) for policy analysis in order to unpack the EU’s capacity to act, and assess its effectiveness, in the empirical context of Ukraine’s cascading ‘crisis’ developments – from 2013/14 domestic revolution to Russia’s hybrid incursion in Ukraine’s south-east up to the ongoing Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine. 

Thereby, the EU’s performance is assessed across the dimensions of what is deemed a coherent, sustainable and effective external action, with an eye on goal-attainment and lesson-learning.

The publication can be consulted here.