Dr. Yuliia Kurnyshova

Postdoctoral Researcher
Volkswagen Foundation Research Grant

 

E-Mail: ikurnyshova@gmail.com

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Current research project: “Reacting to War - the Impact of Crisis on Social groups and Political Discourses”

Research areas

• Political Discourses

• Foreign Policy of Ukraine

• International Security

 

Short CV

Education

Ph.D (Candidate Nauk), Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, Ukraine

Scientific Thesis: “Berlin Crisis of 1958-1963 and Foreign Policy of the United States”

Graduate in History and Journalism– Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, Ukraine

Work experience

April 2022-June 2022 Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Political Science, University of Tubingen, Germany

2020-June 2022 Researcher, Institute of International Relations, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

2020 –2022 Research, Monitoring & Evaluation Manager, Ukraine Reforms Architecture/European Bank of Reconstruction and Development

2016-2019 Strategic Communication and Research Manager, “Enhance Non-Governmental Actors and Grassroot Engagement” (ENGAGE), USAID/Pact Program

2016-2019 Foreign Policy Expert, Institute for Social and Economic Research, Kyiv, Ukraine

2014-2015 Country Researcher for Ukraine, Project of London School of Economics and the European Union Committee of the Regions.

2004-2013 Chief Consultant, Head of Sector, National Institute for Strategic Studies, Kyiv, Ukraine

Publications

Ukraine at War: Resilience and Normative Agency. Central European Journal of International and Security Studies, April 2023, https://cejiss.org/ukraine-at-war-resilience-and-normative-agency

Analogical reasoning: Historical parallels and metaphors in the 2022 war narratives in Ukraine and Russia, Journal of Regional Security, April 2023, https://scindeks.ceon.rs/article.aspx?artid=2217-995X8800006K

From the “Russian World” to Russia’s War: Trajectories of Moscow’s Orthodox Diplomacy in Ukraine. Bulletin de l'Observatoire international du religieux 39, September 2022. https://obsreligion.cnrs.fr/bulletin/from-the-russian-world-to-russias-war-trajectories-of-moscows-orthodox-diplomacy-in-ukraine/

Hybrid Resilience in Insecure Times: Russia’s War and Ukrainian Society. Barcelona: CIDOB Yearbook on Hybrid Conflicts, September 2022. https://www.cidob.org/ca/articulos/cidob_report/n_8/resiliencia_hibrida_en_epocas_inciertas_la_guerra_de_rusia_y_la_sociedad_ucraniana

Explaining Russia’s War Against Ukraine: How Can Foreign Policy Analysis and Political Theory be Belpful. Studies in East European Thought. August 2022. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11212-022-09494-x

Paradoxes of Russia's War against Ukraine, CIDOB opinion, April 2022 https://www.cidob.org/en/publications/publication_series/opinion/2022/paradoxes_of_russia_s_war_against_ukraine_can_political_science_help

Modern Trends in the Security Provision at the International Level. Strategic Priorities, № 1. 2020, p.57-81.

Euro-Atlantic integration as a foreign policy priority of Ukraine, On Internal and external Situation in Ukraine, 2016 //http://www.niss.gov.ua/content/articles/files/poslanya_new-cc2e3.pdf

Nemtsov, “Tephlon” Putin and Ukraine, Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization. – January, Vol 24. #1, 2016.

Military Conflict in Ukraine and Use of UN Mechanisms for its Resolution, Ukrainian Prism, #5, 2015 // http://pfirs.org/en/produkti/book/58-1537/3-produkti.html

The Place of Local and Regional Self-Government in Eastern Partnership Policy Making. Case of Ukraine. European Union Committee of the Regions, 2015 // https://cor.europa.eu/en/engage/studies/Documents/The-place-LRSG-easternship.pdf

Ukrainian – US bilateral relations. Ukrainian Prism: Foreign Policy in 2015. -– Kiev: Friedrich Ebert Fund, 2014 // http://fes.kiev.ua/n/cms/fileadmin/upload2/prisma_policy2015_ukr.pdf

Ukrainian partnership with IMF. Ukrainian Prism: Foreign Policy in 2014. – Kiev: Friedrich Ebert Fund, 2014 // http://www.fes.kiev.ua/new/wb/media/publikationen/prizma_ukr_int_2014.pdf

Ukraine-USA Relations. Foreign Policy Concept of Ukraine. Ukrainian prism: between strategic partnership and security.–Kiev.-20 /http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/ukraine/10249.pdf

Problems of the regional security system shaping in the Asia-Pacific region. Strategic Priorities. -2010. –Vol.4 (21).- P. 166-172.

New priorities in foreign and security policy (in co-authorship). Ukraine in the 21st century. Strategy of reforms and social consolidation. – Kyiv: NISS, 2010.

North-East Asia in the policy priorities for the Obama’s administration. Strategic Priorities. -2010. –Vol. 3 (16). – P.126-132.

Ukraine - USA: achievements and prospects of strategic partnership. Ukraine in 2005- 2009: Strategic Assessment of socio-political and socio-economic development. Monograph / Ed G. Ruban. - K.: NISS, 2009. -P. 577-586.

American-Chinese rivalry nowadays: Trends and Features. Strategic Priorities, 2009. -№ 2. 257-264.