Kataryna WOLCZUK is Professor of Politics at the Centre for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies (CREES), University of Birmingham, UK and Associate Fellow at the Russia and Eurasian Programme, Chatham House, London. She holds an MA in Law from the University of Gdansk, Poland, an MSc and a PhD from the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. Her research focuses on domestic politics and European integration in Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia, EU's relations with the Eastern neighbours as well as Russia’s policy towards the post-Soviet states and Eurasian integration. She was a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence and a visiting professor as the University of Lucerne (Switzerland) and the Free University in Berlin. She has been working with international think-tanks and organisations and has prepared a number of publications for the European Parliament. Her recent publications include: Ukraine between the EU and Russia: the Integration Challenge, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 (with R. Dragneva) and The Ukraine Conflict: Security, Identity and Politics in the Wider Europe, 2017 (edited with D. Averre).
Selected publications
Books
- '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).
Articles in Peer Reviewed Journals
- ‘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