This article traces the effects of European Union (EU) normative power on security sector
reform in Ukraine. We argue that to get a better grasp of how normative power works in …

Russian Federation re-emerged on the global map in December 1991. It was one of the
Soviet Republics since the communist party took over in 1922, and after about two decades …

Volodymyr Zelenskyy's public diplomacy during the Russo-Ukrainian conflict was examined
in this dissertation. Zelenskyy's discourse emphasized his action-oriented traits, Ukrainian …

Proxy wars are an increasingly common feature of great power competition in the 21st
century. In this context, the role of the small states is less clear and has not been properly …

This article introduces a special issue that investigates the interplay between domestic socio-
political orders and changing external influences–of the EU, Russia, Turkey and other …

For several years, the problem of dismissed military personnel has been acute in Ukraine.
The smouldering conflict in Eastern Ukraine, together with economic instability and …

The relevance of this study is conditioned upon the fact that decentralisation of the public
administration system cannot be assessed separately from the broader process of political …

It was not given by the end of the Cold War that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
(NATO), by way of its Eastern enlargement, would become such an effective vehicle for …

This dissertation explores the effectiveness of US security cooperation in fragile states by
focusing on the role of organizational capital in aid provision. It argues that traditional …

Ukraine has been, since its independence in 1991, located between two qualitatively
different types of geopolitical environments–modern to its east and post-modern to its west …