Andriy Tyushka

• College of Europe

Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine has radically undone peace and security in Europe, broken its post-Cold War order and triggered a seismic shift in European geopolitics. Moscow’s lasting and ever-widening multilayered conflict against Ukraine, the EU, the US and NATO/West at large bears no end in sight. With the coming age of hostile coexist...

Reconfiguring EU Peripheries explores the diverse nature of the European Union’s interactions with its peripheries. Focusing on a period of rising regional tensions marked most recently by the war in Ukraine, the volume casts new empirical and conceptual light on the diverse motivations that underpin the political elites’ attitudes towards the EU i...

This briefing paper draws from research done as part of ENGAGE Work Package 8 'Engaging with the EU's Neighbourhoods', which analyses how the EU has engaged with the neighbouring countries in the context of the European Neighbourhood Policy (the ENP). Launched in 2003 to increase the prosperity, stability and security of countries in the EU's neigh...

The study of Russia’s evolving (c)overt aggression against Ukraine has received vast scholarly attention, with multivariate accounts offered on what the conflict is actually about, what are its root causes, its legal and political nature as well as what the future may hold for its evolution and resolution. Thereby, a number of contending conceptual...

Executive Summary This working paper delivers a comprehensive examination of the European Union's (EU's) strategic partnerships with Brazil, the United Kingdom, the United States, Russia and Turkey. For each case study, it explores the historical origins and current state of these partnerships, the different forms they can take, and the objectives...

Written in a ‘future anterior’ style, this academicized science-fiction and alternate history contribution ponders on the evolution of the international system in the 2020s-2120s and with it the paradigmatic change in the kind of international actors, the structure of international politics as well as the idea of cooperation and conflict that under...

This introductory article makes the case for studying joint institutional frameworks (JIFs) in EU bilateral agreements and provides an overview of the remaining contributions to the symposium. In doing so, it addresses contemporary policy developments and theoretical debates in political science and international institutional law. It considers the...

The growing number of EU bilateral agreements with non‐member states has led to a proliferation of transversal joint institutional frameworks governing them. The importance of joint bodies with their powers to oversee, facilitate and sometimes even enforce the implementation of agreements should not be underestimated. This particularly applies in c...

Europe has always occupied a special place in Russia’s storytelling of the ‘self’ and the ‘other’ – from Russia being portrayed as ‘part of Europe’ to it being cast as a ‘better Europe’ or an alternative to Europe that stands for conservative values or a different model of regional cooperation, including such as the Eurasian Economic Union. This ar...

Book review of Paul Robert Magocsi. Historical Atlas of Central Europe. Cartographic design by Geoffrey J. Matthews and Byron Moldovsky, 3rd revised and expanded ed., U of Toronto P, 2018. xiv, 282 pp. Maps. Tables. Map Sources. Bibliography. Index. $57.75, paper.

What explains the de facto authority of international courts? International Court Authority posits a clear answer: the observable, varied authority of international courts (ICs) is, at its core, not purely the result of adjudication (i.e., de jure authority) but rather the interplay between the legal, political, and institutional contexts in which...

Drawing on the critical literature review from the previous chapter, this chapter sketches the minefield of theorizing an inescapable phenomenon – strategic partnerships in world politics and IR theory. It first outlines the theory-building rationale and strategy, epistemological considerations and ontological standing; then it justifies why buildi...

Strategic partnerships are the ‘new normal’ in International Relations. They emerged at the close of the twentieth century and are most likely here to stay for the decades to come. The acquis académiques on strategic partnerships is thriving in the business and economics literature, wherefrom it originates. In political science scholarship, a serio...

Whereas scholarly accounts have mushroomed, especially since 2014, on what a ‘hybrid warfare’ is and is not, the phenomenon has taken a centerstage in international politics, thus confidently entering the everyday political vocabularies and practices in a growing number of states and societies worldwide. Drawing on the recent evidence of spatial an...

W postzimowojennych stosunkach międzynarodowych partnerstwa strategiczne przypominają wyłaniającą się, odrębną kategorię analityczną i polityczną, której rosnące wykorzystanie jako narzędzia polityki zagranicznej, widoczne zarówno w dyskursie politycznym, jak i akademickim, skutkuje niezaprzeczalnym znaczeniem dla zrozumienia dynamiki współczesnej...

Russo-Western relations after the declared end of the Cold War, just as on the eve and in the middle of it, have been fraught with developments pointing towards the persisting distrust and disgust in one another’s perceptions cast against the background of officially declared truce. Such a decades-long half-truth-balancing has gradually lost its fl...

Russia’s annexation of Ukrainian Crimea in 2014 and its covert aggression in the country’s eastern regions gave it tremendous preponderance in the Black Sea region as Ukrainian Naval Forces, headquartered before the crisis in Sevastopol, left the peninsular base. Its growing brinkmanship in the Baltic airspace and waters, just as the policy of mult...

In the Court of Justice's case law, association agreements have been recognised as forming part of the communitarian legal system since the famous 'Haegeman' judgment in 1974. The new-generation association agreements concluded by the EU with its Eastern neighbour states explicitly offer a 'stake in EU law' as one of the incentives for neighbour st...

Review Essay: Of Thomas D. Grant. Aggression Against Ukraine: Territory, Responsibility, and International Law. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. xxx, 283 pp. Treaties and Other International Texts. Cases. Municipal Instruments and Other State Documents. Abbreviations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $105.50, cloth.

In a belief that a certain degree of policy effectiveness is endemic to any type of policy and actor, including the EU?s European Neighbourhood Policy and Eastern Partnership, and that the latter policies represent a part of the Union?s strategic effort, this article pleads for evaluating the effects these policies wield in the long-term perspectiv...

Abstrakt This article addresses the problem of the ongoing constitutional transition in Ukraine that has been revived by the Maidan revolution of 2013–2014. The constitutional transition is increasingly seen as being key for solving what is apparently the greatest political crisis in the country’s history, for providing long-term stabilization of...

Peter Van Elsuwege and Roman Petrov, eds. Legislative Approximation and Application of EU Law in the Eastern Neighbourhood of the European Union: Towards a Common Regulatory Space? London and New York: Routledge, 2014. xxx, 268 pp. Notes on Contributors. Preface by Marc Maresceau. Foreward by Kostiantyn Yelisieiev. Illustrations. Informative table...

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Against the context of the evolution of the European Union's association agreements as transformative tools beyond the organizational boundaries, this article seeks to develop an account for understanding legislative and regulatory approximation mechanisms as the essential elements for the exercise of the Union's normative and regulatory impact. It...

The new wave of the ‘Euro Revolution’ in Ukraine has revealed yet another glaring gap in the country’s social and political order: a constitutional one. The violation of Ukrainian citizens’ basic constitutional rights and freedoms, against the backdrop of excessively wide and frequently abused presidential powers, called for the emergence of a cons...

Досліджено європейський магнетизм - п'ятдесятиріччя Римських договорів. Розглянуто європейське єднання в історичній перспективі. Проаналізовано успіхи політики інтеграції, кризи та спроби реформування протягом 1960 - 1970 рр. Подано інформацію про маастрихтський договір і заснування "Європейського Союзу". Розкрито особливості сучасної політики щодо...