Department of International Relations, Faculty of International Relations, Political Science and Sociology, Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University. Vsevolodа Zmienko 2, Odesa, Ukraine, 65082.

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ORCID ID: Volodymyr Dubovyk
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• Since 1996 – Associate Professor of the Department of International Relations.
• Since 1996 – Senior Research Fellow and Director (since 1999) of the Centre for International Studies of Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University.
• 1996 – Candidate of Political Sciences, Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University. Dissertation topic: "US Policy towards Ukraine (1991-1996): Analysis of Foreign Policy Concepts".

Main courses: Theory of international relations. Foreign policy of Ukraine. Theory of international conflicts. Foreign policy of the United States.

Membership in associations: International Studies Association (ISA, 2001-2008). European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR). Standing Group on International Relations (SGIR, 2007-2013). Ukrainian Association for American Studies, Association for International Studies of Central and East Europe. European Association of Alumni of the Wilson Center. Ukrainian Association for Political Science. American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS, 1997-1999). Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN, 1997-1999). American Association for Ukrainian Studies (AAUS, 1997-2004).

List of main publications:

• Kann die Ukraine mit der Unterstutzung der USA rechnen, um einen gerechten Frieden zu erreichen? // Ukraine – Analysen, #306, 15.11.2024.
• Ukraine will not accept the peace of the graveyard // Center for European Policy Analysis, October 11, 2024.
• Praise the West but pass the ammunition // Center for European Policy Analysis, September 17, 2024.
• Reaction: Ukraine government shake-up // Center for European Policy Analysis, September 6, 2024.
• Resilience, reconstruction, recovery: The path ahead for Ukraine // Center for European Policy Analysis, April 10, 2024.
• The Ukraine war enters its third year // Prospect Foundation, March 20, 2024.
• If you think we are abandoning Crimea, think again // Center for European Policy Analysis, March 19, 2024.
• Ukraine two years on: sobriety, sadness, and an absolute determination to fight // Center for European Policy Analysis, February 21, 2024.
• Understanding Ukraine’s military shakeup // Center for European Policy Analysis, February 13, 2024.
• Containing Russia, Securing Europe // Center for European Policy Analysis, January 31, 2024 (co-author);
• Clearing the air: secretary Blinken visits Ukraine // https://www.ponarseurasia.org/clearing-the-air-secretary-blinken-visits-ukraine/ PONARS Eurasia, September 19, 2023
• Where the Jeddah peace talks a real step toward peace? // Center for European Policy Analysis, August 16, 2023;
• Quo Vadis, Black Sea: Regional security in limbo // Fletcher Forum, May 2, 2023;
• Kyiv-Washington relations in times of colossal war: the ultimate test of a strategic partnership // PONARS Eurasia, January 11, 2023;
• Ukraine’s internally displaced persons // PONARS Eurasia, March 10, 2022;
•  Dominating Ukraine’s sky // PONARS Eurasia, March 5, 2022;
• Footing restored: Nudging Ukraine forward in the Biden-Zelensky era // PONARS Eurasia, November 8, 2021;
• Zelenskyy’s U.S. visit reaffirms partnership. But much work lies ahead // Zentrum Liberale Moderne, September 9, 2021.
• U.S.-Ukraine relations under Joe Biden: security and domestic reforms as mutually reinforcing pillars // Zentrum Liberale Moderne, May 26, 2021.
• Brusylovska, Olga, Dubovyk, Volodymyr, and Koval, Igor (eds.). Black Sea Region in World Policy: Actors, Factors, and Scenarios of the Future. Odesa: Odesa Mechnikov National University Press, 2020.
• Dubovyk, V. Kyiv should stay out of U.S. politics // New Eastern Europe, June 10, 2020.
• No reason to roil Kyiv-Washington relations today // Kyiv Post, May 24, 2020.
• Ukraine lacks leadership as coronavirus crisis escalates // Atlantic Council Ukraine Blog, April 8, 2020.
• U.S. role in the Black Sea region // UA: Ukraine Analytica”, issue 1 (19), 2020, p. 66-71.
• U.S. - Ukraine ties after the impeachment drama // Atlantic Council Ukraine Blog, February 4, 2020.
• EU-U.S. relations under president Trump / Brusylovska Olga, and Koval Igor (eds.), Prospects of Development in EU Politics: Global and Regional Dimensions. Odesa: Odesa Mechnikov National University Press, 2019. P. 116-135.
• How the Trump administration’s contradictory policies impact Ukraine // PONARS Eurasia, January 2019.
• Ukraine still needs U.S., European support and the ongoing scandal must not undermine it // New Eastern Europe, 29.09.2019.
• U.S. - Ukraine relations undergo a hard test: implications // PONARS Eurasia, October 4, 2019.
• Defying marginality: explaining Ukraine’s and Georgia’s drive towards Europe // Journal of Contemporary European Studies, vol. 27, issue 4, 2019, p. 451-462 (in co-authorship)
• The U.S and Ukraine: a partnership in action: the Trump - Zelensky indignity failed to derail bilateral cooperation // PONARS Eurasia, Memo # 626, November 22, 2019.

International conferences, seminars, schools, internships: 

Presidential elections in Ukraine: implications for the future of the country (Helsinki, 2019). The future of Europe: prospects for modern development (Sibiu, 2019). Five years in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict: what role for the West? (Budapest, 2019). Ninth Sahara Memorial Conference (Vilnius, 2019).

Peace-building in Eurasia: Education, Identity and Politics (Bishkek, 2019). PONARS Eurasia Annual Conference (Washington, 2019). 25 years of partnership with NATO: what has been achieved and what has gone wrong? (Istanbul, 2019). From Helsinki to Berlin: Europe and the end of the Cold War” (Lisbon, 2019). Interconnected security? Military Activity, Status and Risk Reduction in the Barents, Baltic and Black Seas (Tromsø, 2019), Roundtable "Russian aggression against Ukraine" (Cambridge, 2022). Ukraine before attack (Harvard, 2022). NATO-Ukraine relations after the Russian war (Columbia, 2022). Russian strategic thinking (RUSI, London, 022).

Future of European security: new challenges and possibilities (Tufts, U.S.).  Second Dignity dialogue on food and energy security (Kinshasa, 2022). The Russia's war on Ukraine: security options, identity shifts and more. The view from Odesa (McGill, Montreal, Canada, 2022).  Black Sea security and Ukraine’s foreign policy (Tufts, U.S., 2022). Ukraine between NATO, the EU, and Russia (Vermont, U.S., 2022). War, Ukraine, and European Union (Illinois, U.S., 2022). ASEEES convention (Chicago, 2022).

The hardest nine months: how the War is changing Ukraine, region and the world (Lehigh, U.S., 2022). A decade of war. When and how the Russian war against Ukraine might end? (Loccum, Germany, 20224). Polish international studies association convention (Krakow, 2022). Ukraine and us. What kind of peace? (Berlin 2024). The historical commonwealth of four nations. The legacy of the idea and future prospects (Warsaw, 2024). The Russo-Ukrainian war and global human security (Kansas, U.S. 2024). Truth or truce in the Russian war against Ukraine? Considering positions, interests, and needs for negotiation (Florence, 2024). Decolonizing Ukraine in theory and practice (Harvard, 2024).

Department of International Relations, Faculty of International Relations, Political Science and Sociology, Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University, 2,Vsevoloda Zmienko, Odesa, Ukraine, 65082.

Department of International Relations, Faculty of International Relations, Political Science and Sociology,
Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University, 2, Vsevoloda Zmienko, Odesa, Ukraine, 65082.

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Courses Taught: Foreign policy systemology of the Black Sea Region; Foreign policy strategy of an authoritarian regimes; International law.

• Since 2011 – Deputy Director / Dean, Faculty of International Relations, Political Science and Sociology, Odesa Mechnikov National University.
• Since 2003 – Associate Professor, Department of International Relations.
• Since 2002 – Ph.D. (political science and international relations), “Kandydat Politicheskih Nauk”. Obtained at the Department of International Relations, Odesa Mechnikov National University. Title of dissertation: “Constructing Security and Cooperation System in the Black Sea Region and the Role of Ukraine in this Process (1990-ies)”.
• Since 2000 – Assistant Professor Department of International Relations.
• Since 1998 – Senior Research Fellow, Coordinator of research on the Black Sea, Caspian and Mediterranean Studies, Centre for International Studies, Odesa Mechnikov National University.
• 1998 – 2000 - Assistant Professor, Department of History and World Politics, Institute of Social Sciences, Odessa National University.
• Since 1998 – Odesa National Law Academy, Odesa, Ukraine, MA Law.
• Since 1996 – Odesa Mechnikov State University, Odesa, Ukraine, MA History.

List of main publications:

1. Glebov S. Humanitarian aspects of the implementation of Artificial Intelligence in Industry 4.0: morality, values, safety. Erasmus+ CBHE HEIn4 project “Boosting the role of HEIs in the industrial transformation towards the Industry 4.0 paradigm in Georgia and Ukraine”, Official website of the Project, February 2024. (to be posted at https://hein4.net/)
2. Glebov S. The Role of the Three Seas Initiative in the Future European Security and Cooperation System. Central European Political Science Review, Vol. 24, Number 94, December 2023, 53-64. https://cepsr.eu/cepsr/
3. Глебов С. В. Європейська інтеграція як системний феномен постбіполярної трансформації євроатлантичного безпекового простору “від Ванкувера до Владивостока”. Європейський Союз у мінливому світі: Монографія / ред. В. В. Копійкa. К.: О. Зень, 2022. С. 89-120. https://e-learning.iir.edu.ua/pluginfile.php/5230/mod_book/chapter/1110/EU%20in%20a%20Changing%20World_monographia.pdf
4. Glebov S. & Angelova M., eds. 2022. Academic Cultures between Dependencies and Independencies in the Interwar Black Sea Region. Blagoevgrad: Blagoevgrad University Press. https://blacksearegion.eu/interwarknowledge/
5. Глебов С. В. Перша гібридна світова війна: боротьба України, виклики для світу / The first hybrid world war: the struggle of Ukraine, cries for the world. Наукова конференція “Політичні проблеми міжнародних систем та глобального розвитку”. Міжнародні та політичні дослідження, 2022, Вип. 35, 244-245. http://heraldiss.onu.edu.ua/article/view/261530/262787 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18524/2707–5206.2022.35.261530
6. Glebov S. Hybridization of state terrorism and security challenges to resilience in times of proxy-wars. UA: Ukraine Analytica. Issue 3(25), 2021. P. 25-35. https://ukraine-analytica.org/hybridisation-of-state-terrorism-and-security-challenges-to-resilience-in-times-of-proxy-wars/
7. Глебов С. В. Анексія Криму: правові та безпекові пертурбації. Чорноморський регіон у світовій політиці: актори, чинники, сценарії майбутнього: монографія / під заг. ред. О. І Брусиловської, В. А. Дубовика, І. М. Коваля. Одеса: ОНУ, 2020. С. 49-70. 
8. Glebov S. Victimization of the “Crimean Syndrome”. UA: Ukraine Analytica. Issue 4 (2), 2020. P. 18-27.  https://ukraine-analytica.org/victimisation-of-the-crimean-syndrome/
9. Glebov S. Annexation of Crimea: Legal and Security Perturbations, Black Sea Region in World Policy: Actors, Factors, and Scenarios of the Future / (eds.) Brusilovska O.,  Dubovyk V., and Koval I. Odesa: Odessa Mechnikov National University Press, 2020. P. 46-66. http://dspace.onu.edu.ua:8080/handle/123456789/29984
10. Глебов С. Альянс миротворчий: як вдалося запобігти новій війні між Туреччиною та Грецією. Європейська правда. 25 вересня 2020. https://www.eurointegration.com.ua/articles/2020/09/25/7114671/
11. Glebov S. The EU’s Policy of Integration in the Context of European Regionalization. Prospects of Development in EU Politics: Global and Regional Dimentions / Eds. Brusylovska O., Koval I. Odesa: Odesa Mechnikov National University, 2019. P. 20-32. http://dspace.onu.edu.ua:8080/handle/123456789/26429
12. Glebov S. (in co-authorship with Brusylovska O.). “Russian World” in the Black Sea region: the Case of Ukraine. Baltic-Black Sea Regionalisms. Patchworks and Networks at Europe’s Eastern Margins / Eds. O. Bogdanova, A. Makarychev. Switzerland: Springer, 2019. P. 225-234. DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-24878-9 (SCOPUS).
13. Glebov S. Ukraine between Russia and the West: Russian Challenge to Euro-Atlantic Security. P. 153-168. Russia in the Changing International System / Ed. Emre Parlar Dal and Emre Ersen. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. P. 153-168 https://www.academia.edu/40331701/Russia_in_the_Changing_International_System (WEB OF SCIENCE).
14. Glebov S. V. Borders of In/Security in the ‘Border’ Regions of the Black Sea and the Case of Ukraine: Social Spaces, Identity, and Military Power.  Old Borders – New Challenges, New Borders – Old Challenges: De-Bordering and Re-Bordering in Contemporary Europe. Series of the Collegium Polonicum, Thematicon 34 / ed. Janczak J. Berlin: Logos Verlag Berlin, 2019. P. 19-30. https://content-select.com/de/portal/media/view/5e469731-07cc-4e6c-bab3-4e00b0dd2d03
15. Глебов С. Демократія в безпеці, безпека в демократії: внутрішні та зовнішні виклики для України. Міжнародні відносини та зовнішня політика в еру "пост-правди". Монографія / О. Брусиловська та інші. К.: Вадекс, 2018. - С. 137-176. http://dspace.onu.edu.ua:8080/handle/123456789/27804
16. Glebov S. The Beginning of Ukraine and the End of the Post-bipolar World. Ukraine after Euromaidan: Challenges and Hopes / (eds.) Stepanenko V., and Pylynskyi Y. Bern: Peter  Lang, 2014. P. 105-114. https://i-soc.com.ua/assets/files/library/stepanenko-ed.-ukraine-after-euromaidan.pdf (WEB OF SCIENCE)
17. Glebov S. The Black Sea Security Space in Perspective: Ukraine’s Non-alignment as a Challenge to the “New” Euro-Atlantism. Security and Cross-Border Cooperation in the EU, the Black Sea Region and Southern Caucasus / (eds.) A. Ergun, H. Isaxanli / NATO Science for Peace and Security Series - E: Human and Societal Dynamics. Vol. 107. Amsterdam: Courier Dover Publications, 2013. P. 96-107.  (WEB OF SCIENCE)
18. Glebov S. Ukraine’s Changing Foreign Policy: Implications on the Black Sea Security. Insight Turkey. 2011. Vol. 13. No. 2. - pp. 129-144. https://www.insightturkey.com/articles/ukraines-changing-foreign-policy-implications-on-the-black-sea-security (WEB OF SCIENCE)
19. Glebov S. Concerning “Strange” Relations: Extensive Perceptions of Security Spaces Within the Ukraine-Russia-NATO Triangle. Russian Politics and Law / Editors: Dmitry Gorenburg and Andrey  Makarychev. September-October 2009, Vol. 47, № 5. M.E.Sharpe: Armonk, NY. P. 52-65. https://www.academia.edu/169589/Theorizing_Post_Soviet_Russias_Extreme_Right_Comparative_Political_Historical_and_Sociological_Approaches_Armonk_NY_M_E_Sharpe_2008 (WEB OF SCIENCE)
20. Glebov S. Black Sea Security as a Regional Concern for the Black Sea States and the Global Powers. Southeast European and Black Sea Studies (ELIAMEP, Routledge, Taylor & Francies Group). September 2009. Volume 9, Number 3. – P. 351-366. (WEB OF SCIENCE) As an expert of The Foreign Policy Council “Ukrainian Prism”, Ukraine (http://prismua.org/en/scorecards2022/):
21. Глебов С. Двосторонні відносини. Грузія. Українська призма: зовнішня політика 2023. Аналітичне дослідження / ГО «Рада зовнішньої політики «Українська призма», Фонд ім. Ф. Еберта.  Київ, 2024. 
22. Глебов С. Двосторонні відносини. Азербайджан. Українська призма: зовнішня політика 2023. Аналітичне дослідження / ГО «Рада зовнішньої політики «Українська призма», Фонд ім. Ф. Еберта.  Київ, 2024. 
23. Глебов С. Двосторонні відносини. Грузія. Українська призма: зовнішня політика 2022. Аналітичне дослідження / ГО «Рада зовнішньої політики «Українська призма», Фонд ім. Ф. Еберта.  Київ, 2023. С. 105-109.
24. Глебов С. Двосторонні відносини. Азербайджан. Українська призма: зовнішня політика 2022. Аналітичне дослідження / ГО «Рада зовнішньої політики «Українська призма», Фонд ім. Ф. Еберта.  Київ, 2023. С. 94-99.
25. Глебов С. Двосторонні відносини. Азербайджан. Українська призма: зовнішня політика 2021. Аналітичне дослідження / ГО «Рада зовнішньої політики «Українська призма», Фонд ім. Ф. Еберта. Київ, 2022. С. 94-99.
26. Глебов С. Двосторонні відносини. Грузія. Українська призма: зовнішня політика 2021. Аналітичне дослідження / ГО «Рада зовнішньої політики «Українська призма», Фонд ім. Ф. Еберта. Київ, 2022. С. 105-110.
27. Глебов С. Двосторонні відносини. Грузія. Українська призма: зовнішня політика 2020. Аналітичне дослідження / ГО «Рада зовнішньої політики «Українська призма», Фонд ім. Ф. Еберта. Київ, 2021. С. 100-105.
28. Глебов С. Двосторонні відносини. Грузія. Українська призма: зовнішня політика 2019. Аналітичне дослідження / ГО «Рада зовнішньої політики «Українська призма», Фонд ім. Ф. Еберта.  Київ, 2020. С. 139-144.
29. Глебов С. Регіональна співпраця: Чорноморський регіон. Українська призма: зовнішня політика 2019. Аналітичне дослідження / ГО «Рада зовнішньої політики «Українська призма», Фонд ім. Ф. Еберта. Київ, 2020. С. 274-279.
30. Глебов С. Двосторонні відносини. Грузія / Українська призма: зовнішня політика 2018. Аналітичне дослідження / ГО «Рада зовнішньої політики «Українська призма», Фонд ім. Ф. Еберта. Київ, 2019. С. 87-90.

INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIPS, SCHOLARSHIPS, PROJECTS

2017-2019 – Expert, Eurasia Peace Studies Exchange (EPSE), UiT, Tromso, Norway, Member of the inter-University academic network; April 17-22, 2017, Kick-off meeting, Eurasia Peace Studies Exchange (EPSE), UiT, University of Tromso, Norway; March 18-22, 2018, Project meeting, University of Hamburg, Germany; November 22-26, 2019, EPSE Project meeting, UiT The Arctic University of Norway; 2017-2021 – Coordinator, Knowledge Exchange and Academic Cultures. Europe and the BSR (KEAC-BSR), Horizon-2020 Project 734645 January 13-16, Knowledge Exchange and Academic Cultures. Europe and the BSR (KEAC-BSR); Project kick-off meeting, Batumi, Georgia; July 7-21 and August 4-18, 2017, KEAC-BSR Research visit, Matenadaran, Yerevan, Armenia; August 8-22, 2019, KEAC-BSR Research visit, Institute of Archeology and Ethnography, Baku, Azerbaijan;  January 8-22, 2020, KEAC-BSR Research visit, Institute of Archeology and Ethnography, Baku, Azerbaijan; 2017-2021 – Expert, Erasmus+ Grant Agreement 2017 – 2883 / 001-001 "Rethinking Regional Studies: The Baltic-Black Sea Connection," University of Tartu, Estonia; January 22-23, 2018, Project meeting, University of Tartu, Estonia; June 18-20, 2018, Project meeting, University of Lund, Sweden (Erasmus+ Grant Agreement 2017–2883/001-001 "Rethinking Regional Studies: The Baltic-Black Sea Connection"; 2018-2023 – Country Director, NATO SPS project G5442 "Resilient Civilians in Population-Centric Warfare (ResilientCivilians)", UiT The Arctic University of Norway; May 1-4, 2018, Launch meeting/Conference, Tromso, Norway; September 29-October 4, 2019, Project meeting, Skopje, North Macedonia; Training by the The European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats - the Project partner - on countering hybrid threats in Helsinki, Finland (25-26 April, 2022) and in Riga, Latvia (13-15 September, 2022). Final meeting and report - 23-24 April 2023, NATO Headquarters, Brussels, Belgium; 2021-2024 - expert, Erasmus+ CBHE HEIn4 project “Boosting the role of HEIs in the industrial transformation towards the Industry 4.0 paradigm in Georgia and Ukraine” “Boosting the role of HEIs in the industrial transformation towards the Industry 4.0 paradigm in Georgia and Ukraine” 609939-EPP-1-2019-1-BE-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP; 2021-2026 - expert and Advisory Board member, Research Council of Norway, “FAKENEWS: Disinformation and People - Impacts of Societal Trust and Resilience”, Project number 326210, UiT The Arctic University of Norway; 2024-2027 - expert, project “Empowering the Geopolitical EU in the Eastern Neighbourhood and the Western Balkans”, the European Union’s H2020 Research and Innovation programme under grant agreement no 101132692 — GEO-POWER-EU — HORIZON-CL2-2023-DEMOCRACY-01 

MOBILITY (research stays abroad lasting more than three months)

2000-2001 - Visiting Scholar, TEMPUS-TACIS project 10491-98 “Europe in Odesa, Odesa in Europe” on European Studies, University of Exeter, the UK; 2003 - IREX Visiting Scholar at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York, USA, FSA Contemporary Issues Fellowship Program sponsored by the US Department of State and administrated by International Research and Exchange Board (IREX); 2018-2019 Fulbright Visiting Scholar, University of California San Diego, School of Global Policy and  Strategy, San Diego, USA.

Viktor V. Glebov

Department of International Relations, Faculty of International Relations, Political Science and Sociology, Odessa I.I. Mechnikov National University,

2,Vsevoloda Zmienko, Odesa, Ukraine, 65082.
Telephone 38 (0482) 63-32-59; E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-5321-9829

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Main Courses:

• Africa-Asian Countries: Foreign Policy and Diplomacy.
• 2018 – Dean, Faculty of International Relations, Political Science and Sociology.
• 2011 - 2017 – Director, Institute of Social Sciences, Odesa I.I. Mechnikov National University.
• 1996-2010 – Dean, School of International Relations, Institute of Social Sciences, Odesa I.I. Mechnikov National University.
• Since 1996 – Associate Professor, Department of International Relations, Institute of Social Sciences, Odesa I.I. Mechnikov National University.
• 1994 – Head, School of International Relations, Odesa I.I. Mechnikov National University.
• 1992 – Visiting Professor, Goucher College/John Hopkins University, Baltimore (MD) USA.
• 1983 - 1996 – Associate Professor, Department of Modern and Contemporary History, Odesa I.I. Mechnikov National University.
• 1983 - 1988 – Associate Dean, Department for Foreign Students, Odesa I.I. Mechnikov National University.
• 1982 - 1983 – Lecturer, Department of Modern and Contemporary History, Odesa I.I. Mechnikov National University.

Member of editorial staff: Scientific journal "ONU Herald" (KB№11464-337, Odesa, Ukraine); scientific editor of the monograph: "Globalization of security" (Donetsk, "Noulig", 2011, 246 p.); reviewer of the textbook: "World in the second half of the XX - early XXI century: the main tendencies of political and socio-economic development" (Chernivtsi, 2010).

Mother tongue: Ukrainian, Russian. Other languages: English.

Membership in associations: American Council for International Education: ASTR / ACCELS (Fall 1999). Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies, (1999). Fulbright Research Scholar, Department of Political Science and Geography, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, USA (1996). American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1996). International Studies Association, USA (1994). Atlantic Council of Ukraine (Kiev, Ukraine.).

List of main publications:

• "Some trends in the development of the Eastern countries in the context of globalization." Scientific Bulletin of the Odessa National Economic University 5 (2013): С.72-78 (Ukrainian).
• "Black Sea Region, European Security and Ukraine." In Ukraine and European Security. - Macmillan Press, 1999.
• "International problems of the Black Sea region in the foreign policy of Ukraine." In Ukraine and Russia: regional aspects of foreign policy in the 1990s. - The Russian Academy of Sciences. Institute of International Economic and Political Studies, Moscow, 1999 (Russian).
• "Prevention of Conflict, Peace-keeping and Settlement of Conflict in the Black Sea Region". In the Romanian Journal of International Relations 1 (1998): 21-30.
• "The politics of the Black Sea region in the context of Russian-Ukrainian relations." In the Russian-Ukrainian relations: problems and prospects. - Odessa, A-TEX, 1996.
  "Institute of Social Sciences (foreword)." In The Odessa I.I. Mechnikov National University. The history and the present (1865-2015), 750-751. Odessa: ONU, 2015 (Ukrainian).
• “American youth and US foreign policy.” In USA: modern foreign policy thought. Analysis of the concepts of American political science of the 80s. 158-188. Odessa, Logos, 1992 (Russian).
• "Ukraine and the CIS in the context of European security." In Ukraine and European security. - Macmillan Press, 1999.
• "Potential of conflict in the Black Sea region: rivalry or cooperation?" In Ukraine-Turkey: security and cooperation in the Black Sea region, 63-71. - Kiev, 2000 (Ukrainian).
• "Political thought of Turkey on the main directions of foreign policy in the 1990s". In the Scientific Bulletin of the Chernivtsi University, 87-93, 2001 (Ukrainian).
• "On some aspects of the southern direction of Ukraine's foreign policy: assessments and prospects." In the Scientific Bulletin of the Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine 7 (2002): 62-68 (Ukrainian).
• "Factor of NATO and the country of Maghreb". In Politic and Time. Journal of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine 5 (2002) (Ukrainian)
  "Ukrainian military-industrial complex in the Middle East arms market". In the Strategic panorama. Journal of the National Security and Defense Council 2 (2002) (Ukrainian).
• "The place and prospects of Ukraine in the Middle East arms market". In the Strategic panorama. Quarterly scientific and practical journal of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine. No. 1 (2003): 162-167 (Ukrainian).

International conferences, seminars, schools:

European Conference on Social and Behavioral Sciences (Odessa, 2017). International scientific conference "Social and political transformations in Central and Eastern Europe (1917-2017): factors, achievements, problems" (Odessa, 2017). International scientific-practical conference "Social, psychological and political problems of cross-border security" (Odessa, 2016). International Conference "Ukraine and NATO" (Kiev, 1999). International Conference of the Conflict Prevention "Challenges of European Security in the Black Sea Region" (Mangalia, Romania, 1997). "The Nonproliferation Seminar" (Washington, 1997). "International Relations and Security Policy Information: Problems and Opportunities for NGO’s in Ukraine", Seminar the Atlantic Council of Ukraine (Kiev, January 22-24, 1997). The 17th conference "Europe of Regions. Regionalism as a means for promoting democracy, stability and development "(Odessa, 1996). The 37th annual conference of the International Studies Association (ISA), where next in international studies "Ukrainian Security and the CIS" (San Diego, California, USA, 1996). V World Congress for Central and East European Studies "Black Sea Region and Problems of European Security" (Warsaw, Poland, 1995). An International Conference "Black Sea Security in the Post-Soviet era". "Conflict over Crimea and Ukrainian-Russian relations" (Varna, Bulgaria, 1995). The 36th Annual Conference of the International Studies Association (ISA), Challenges and Responses in the Interdependent World "The Black Sea Area in Russian and Ukrainian Politics" (Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1995). "Ukraine and Russia in the Context of Regional Security: History and Reality". The 35th Conference of the International Studies Association (ISA), the new agenda of world politics (Washington, D.C., USA, 1994).

Department ,of International Relations, Faculty of International Relations, Political Science and Sociology Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University. 2, Vsevoloda Zmienko, Odesa, Ukraine, 65082.

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ORCID ID: Ganna Grabina
Google Scholar: Ganna Grabina

• September 2010 - September 2018 – specialist, Department of International Relations.
• September 2018- December 2021- Senior Lecturer at the Department of International Relations
• January 2022 till now – Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations

Native language: Ukrainian, Russian. Other languages: English.

List of main publications:

• Theoretical basis for studying the subculture of power // Vestnik of Odesa National University.-2015.Issue.1(22).Том 20.-С.67-73. (in Ukrainian)
• Subculture of power in modern Ukraine: features of president value code // The European Political and Law Discourse.-vol.3(1).-2016.-p.130-135. 
• The political elite of modern Ukraine as a personification of the subculture of power // Grani: Scientific Herald.-2016.-№3(131).-С.55-61. (in Ukrainian)
• The Adaptive potential of subculture of power in political transit // Actual problems of politics: Scientific Herald.-2016.-№58.-С.20-29. (in Ukrainian)
• Subculture of Power of "Consolidated" and "Defective" Democracies: Comparative Analysis // Gileya: Scientific Herald.-2017.-121(№6).-С.199-203. (in Ukrainian)
• Cultural Phenomenon in the structure of modern social medium political matrix: determining adaptive potential // Politicus: Scientific Herald. -2017.-№1.-С.62-66. (in Ukrainian)
• The Influence of Russian Propaganda on the EU’s Interstate Relations With the Eastern European Countries (Case of Poland-Ukraine) // Rocznik Integracji Europejskiej.-2020.-№14.- р.113-123.
• The Information Revolution in the Post-Industrial Society: Dangers in Political Processes // Postmodern Opening Journal,  2022, Volume 13, Issue 4,  p. 113-126 WoS https://doi.org/10.18662/po/13.4/509  
• Grabina G., Maksymenko I.  The impact of Russia’s propaganda on security perceptionsin Romania and Bulgaria. European Political Science (May 15, 2024).  DOI. 10.1057/s41304-024-00478-5

International conferences, seminars, schools:

«Man, society, politics: actual challenges of our time» ( Odesa, 2015). «Black Sea Political Science Readings» (Odesa, 2015). «Modern Challenges for Social Sciences in the Conditions of Globalization» (Lviv, 2016). «Medzinarodna vedecko-prakticka konferencia:Inovacne vyskum v oblasti sociologie, psychologia a politologie» (Sladkovicovo, 2017). «New tasks of social sciences in the XXI century» (Kiev, 2017). «Beyond Europe: Towards a New Global Order» (Poznan, 2019). Research visit for young researches The Jean Monnet Center of Excellence EU EX/ACTВ (Poznan, Poland, 23.11.2019-07.12.2019). Presentation an open lecture at Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznan, 2019).

Faculty conference, theses: Cultural diplomacy as a powerful tool for creating a positive image of the state (2020). Online conference: «Emerging Trends in social Media» by NATO StratCom COE (2021). Organization and moderation  of the summer school "Modern challenges to international information and cybersecurity" (2021). Participation in the seminar “Reflecting on the changes landscape of higher education in light of rapid digitalization” (2021). Participation in the International Autumn School Resilience League 2021, organized by the International Center for Defense and Security (ICDS) (Pärnu, Estonia, 04.10.2021-08.10.2021).

Participation in the International Autumn School Resilience League 2022, , organized by the International Center for Defense and Security (ICDS) (Talin, Estonia, 20.11.2021-24.11.2022).Round Table World Academics Talk: Intersections of Geopolitics and Political Communication: Lessons from the War in Ukraine (05.12.2022). International Scientific and Practical Conference Image of Ukraine: Social Political Representations and Linguistic Reflection of Military Realities in foreign and inner media, (Odesa, 15-16 June 2023). Conference: Ukraine – Poland – Past, Present, Future – Perspectives, Cooperation (Gdansk, Poland, 17 November 2023). Seminar “Ukraine-Poland-Europe”, Cooperation between Poland and Ukraine in the context of European security (November 19-25, 2024, Gdansk, Poland). Una Europa Days meetings, Una4UA2 ( Krakow, Poland, October 16-18, 2024). Conference “Emerging trends in social Media 2024”. Riga, Latvia, October 8, 2024.

Department of International Relations, Faculty of International Relation, Political Science and Sociology,
Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University,
2, Vsevoloda Zmienko, Odesa, Ukraine, 65082

Tel. (+380 482) 63 32 59; fax (+380 482) 68 72 84,

E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

ORCID ID: Igor Koval
Google Scholar: Igor Koval

Main Courses:

• History of International Relations
• US Foreign Policy.
• Introduction to the Profession International Relations.
• History, concepts and modern achievements of political science
• World politics and international relations of the XX-XXI centuries
• US foreign policy (for PhD)
• 2010 – 2020 – Rector of Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University.
• 2001 – Professor, Department of International Relations.
• 2000 – Doctor of Political Sciences, Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kiev, Ukraine. Title of Doctoral Thesis (specialty 23.00.04 – Political Problems of International Systems and Global Development): “Conceptualization of the US East European Politics at the Beginning of the Global Transformation Process”.
• 1999 - 2015 – Chief of the Department of International Relations, Institute of Social Sciences.
• 1996-2010 – Director of the Institute of Social Sciences, Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University.
• 1987-1996 – Associate Professor of the Department of New and Contemporary History, Faculty of History.

Member of editorial staff: Scientific journal “International and Political Studies” (Odesa, Ukraine)

Mother tongue: Ukrainian, Russian. Other languages: English, Polish.

Membership in associations: Ukrainian Association of Political Sciences (1987). CIS Association of International Studies (1992). International Studies Association (USA, 1991). American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (USA, 1993).

He was awarded the Order of Merit of the 3rd degree, and he has an honorary title "Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine". Honorary Professor at the University of Galati (Romania). Kennan Institute alumni association of Ukraine (member of Board since 2002). Corresponding Member of the Ukrainian Academy of Political Sciences (2009). Member of the Union of Rectors of Ukraine. Member of the Board of Education and Science of Odessa Regional State Administration. Member of the Expert Council of the State Accreditation Commission of Ukraine in Philosophy, Political and Social Sciences.

List of the main publications:

1. The last battle of the Cold War: Eastern European policy of superpowers in the concepts of foreign political science (80's - early 90's). Odessa: Astroprint, 1999. (in Russian).
2. Critical analysis of American bourgeois historiography: Concepts of the East European Policy of the USA. Kiev - Odessa: Higher school, 1984. (in Russian).
3. USA: contemporary foreign policy thought. Analysis of the Concepts of American Political Science in the 80s. Odessa: Logos, 1992. (in Russian).
4. Ukraine and European security: collective monograph. London - New York, 1999.
5. European state security: problems and concepts of the 1990s: collective monograph. Katowice, 1997. (in English and Polish).
6. Eastern and Central Europe, and NATO expansion. Hamburg, 1997.
7. Ukraine and European security. London - New York, 1999.
8. American "neorealism": entering the 21st century. Concepts and methods. In USA and the world of the XXI century: monograph / ed. Y. Pahomov, I. Koval, S. Shergin and other, 22-30. К.: Center for free press,2013. (in Ukrainian). 
9. Political science: a textbook for students of higher educational institutions / ed. I. M. Koval. Kharkiv: Folio, 2012. (in Ukrainian).
10. Historical psychology: origins and the present state / ed. I. M. Koval. Odessa: Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University, 2012. (in Russian).
11. Velvet Revolutions. In Geopolitics: Encyclopedia, 599-522. Kiev, 2012. (in Ukrainian).
12. Collection of thoughts and knowledge of the glow: [preface]. In Two centuries of service to the book. History of the Scientific Library of the Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University, 1817-2017 / ed. M. V. Alekseyenko, M. O. Podrezova, O. V. Polevshchikova, V. P. Spring, V. V.Samodurov, 8-10. Odessa: Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University, 2017. (in Ukrainian).
13. Strategic Culture and Foreign Policy Ukraine / Ed. I. Koval, O. Brusylovska, V. Dubovyk. Odessa: Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University, 2017.
14. Bookmarks of European bibliophiles in the collections of the university library: album-catalog / ed. I. M. Koval, M. O. Podrezova. Odessa: Astroprint, 2017. (in Ukrainian).
15. The United States and the New East European Agenda: An Assessment of American Political Scientists. In International relations and the policy of states in the conditions of global transformations: the analysis of modern political thought / ed. I. M. Koval, O. I. Brusylovska. 346-354. Odessa: Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University, 2016. (in Ukrainian).
16. "Ukrainian crisis" in the context of the geopolitical realities of our time. In Korean Studies in Eastern Europe: Contemporary and Prospects: Scientific Edition, 72-76. Kiev-Seoul: Kyiv University, 2016. (in Ukrainian).
17. Education in the 21st Century Classical University: A Public Value or a Business Project. In A Classical University in the Context of Challenges of the Age: A Scientific Edition, 43-49. Kyiv: Kyiv University, 2016. (in Ukrainian).
18. Post-communist transformation after 2004: cases of Poland and Hungary (co-author O. Brusylovska). In: Man, Soсiety, Politics: Topical Challenges of the Modernity. Lviv-Torun: Liha-Pres, 2019, 56-71.
19. Russian Politics toward Ukraine: Was there Ever a Strategic Partnership? (co-author O. Brusylovska). In Przeglad Strategiczny, №12, 2019, 131-144.
20. Introduction. Conclusions. In: Prospects of Development in EU Politics: Global and Regional Dimensions / ed. I. M. Koval, O. I. Brusylovska. Odesa: Odessa Mechnikov National University Press, 2019.
21. Exploring of the Borders Nature in Contemporary Europe. Review of Monograph. International and Political Studies 32 (2019): 291-295.
22. O. I. Brusylovska, V. A. Dubovyk, І. M. Koval (eds.). Black Sea Region at World Politics: Actors, Factors, and Scenarios of the Future: monograph. Odesa: ONU, 2020. (Introduction; Conclusions).
23. Book review “Baltic-Black Sea Regionalisms. Patchworks and Networks of Europe's Eastern Margins”. Rhetoric and Communications, Issue 43, April 2020, p. 137-141.
24. Professors of Odessa National University named after I. I. Mechnikov / ed. І. M. Koval, Vol. 1. Rectors (1865-2020), Odesa, ONU, 2020. (in Ukrainian).
25. Professors of Odessa National University named after I. I. Mechnikov / ed. І. M. Koval, Vol. 2. Professors (2005-2020), Odesa, ONU, 2020. (in Ukrainian).
26. Graduates of the Odessa National University named after I. I. Mechnikov / ed. І. M. Koval. Odesa, ONU, 2020. (in Ukrainian).
27. Scribbles, doctors, professors of the Odessa National University named after I.I. Mechnikov / ed. І. M. Koval. Odesa, ONU, 2020. (in Ukrainian).
28. Global, regional and local factors of formation of the modern system of international relations / eds. Koval I. M., Brusylovska O. I.  Odesa: Astroprint, 2023. 368 p. (in Ukrainian).

International conferences, seminars, schools:

European project: a collapse? strategy? breakthrough? (Sydney, February 4-5, 2019). International Round Table "Strategic Forecasting in Contemporary International Relations" (Washington, 2019). Scientific and Practical Seminar of the Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine “Ukrainian - American Relations: Agenda for 2020” (Kyiv, 2019). Modern University in the Context of Global Turbulence (Buenos Aires, 2019). IV Appatov’s Readings (Odesa, 2020). 75th Science Conference of the Professors and Scientific Workshops (Odesa, 2020). Co-head of three TEMPUS projects.

Department of International Relations, Faculty of International Relations, Political Science and Sociology,
Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University,
2,Vsevoloda Zmienko, Odesa, Ukraine, 65082.

Telephone (+380 482) 63 32 59; Fax (+380 482) 68 72 84;
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ORCID ID: Denys Kuzmin
Google Scholar: Denys Kuzmin

Main Courses:

1. Theory and history of European integration, \
2. International Organizations.

• 2015 – present – Program coordinator at the Odesa Center for Nonproliferation (OdCNP), Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University.
• 1999 – present – Assistant Prof., Department of International Relations, Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University.
• 1996 – present – Senior research fellow and European Studies program coordinator at the Center for International Studies, Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University.
• 1996-1999 – PhD-student, Department of International Relations, Odessa State University, adviser Prof. S. Appatov.
• 1996 – MA in International Relations, Odessa State University.

Membership in associations: Central and East European International Studies Association (CEEISA, 1997 – present). Atlantic Council of Ukraine (Odesa branch, 1998 – present). Standing group on International Relations (ECPR, Tampere 2000). International Studies Association (ISA, 2005 – present). American Political Science Association (APSA, 2005).

List of main publications:

1. Ukraine – European Union Relations through the Prism of Strategic Culture // Strategic Culture and Foreign Policy of Ukraine / Ed. by I. Koval, O. Brusylovska, V. Dubovyk. – Odesa, 2017. – Р. 54-75 (with I. Maksymenko).
2. Analysis of the EU-Ukraine relations in the context of Association Agreement and related documents and the EU 2014/2020 financial perspective (with I. Maksymenko)
3. Contemporary role of Ukraine in the context of the process of Eastern Enlargement of the European Union. In the book: “European integration and the process of internal transformation: Ukrainian perspective an Portuguese experience”. Ed. by V. Dubovyk and L.N. Rodrigues. – Odesa.: Astroprint, 2011. – 353 p.
4. New international "actoring" of Ukraine in the context of the process of EU Eastern enlargement. //Scientific Bulletin. Odesa State Economic University. Ukrainian Association of Young Scientists. (Economics, Politics, History). -2009. - № 12(90). - P.172-178. (Russian).
5. The enlargement of European Union and Ukraine as a new “actor” in contemporary international relations in Europe. In: "Policy of Ukraine in the Black Sea-Caspian region in the context of the European Union strategy: from cooperation to collaboration”/Regional Branch of the National Institute for Strategic Studies.-Regional Representative Office of Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Ukraine and Belarus /edited by A. Volovich - Odesa: Phoenix, 2008. - P. 148-152. (Russian).
6. Euro-Atlantic integration of Ukraine: global and regional dimension: analytical collection/ ISS ONU. - Odesa: Astroprint, 2008. - 144 pp. (with I. Koval, V. Dubovyk, S. Glebov, A. Hudenko) (Ukrainian).
7. Challenges of European Security and contemporary role of NATO for Ukraine and the world. / / Odesa National University Herald. - Odesa. 2008. - Volume 13. - Issue 5. - P. 823-833. (Ukrainian).
8. Evolution of NATO’s role and the current security challenges in Odesa public opinion. / / In the book: On the Euro-Atlantic integration of Ukraine. Dialogue of neighbors: Ukraine - Slovakia. Institute for Public Affairs. Bratislava. 2008. - P.59-71. (Ukrainian).
9. Evolution of NATO’s roll: aggressiveness or expanded understanding of security. - Materials of autumn NATO Academy, Donetsk. NATO and security issues in Eastern and Southeastern Europe. //Bulletin of the Research and Information Center for International Security and Euro-Atlantic cooperation of Donetsk National University, Donetsk, 2008. - P. 34-37. (Russian).
10. EU Enlargement: implications for Ukraine. – “Development of cross-border cooperation with regions of EU member states”. International conference, digest of reports. 18.05.2007 / Department of Foreign Economic Activities and European Integration of Odesa Regional State Administration. - Odesa: Astroprint, 2007. - P. 51-53. (Russian).
11. “European and Euro Atlantic integration of Ukraine: in reaction of population of Odesa region” in the book “Crossborder and regional cooperation between Ukraine and countries of Central and Eastern Europe as important part of European strategy of Ukraine”, Kyiv, 2004 (Ukrainian).
12. Regional dimensions of European and Euro Atlantic integration of Ukraine: view from Odesa region. “Doslidzennia svitovoji polityky”(Institute of World Economy and International Relations, NAS of Ukraine) #27, 2004 – Kyiv. (with I. Koval). (Ukrainian).
13. “About the future role of national minorities in Europe and in Ukraine within the context of broadening of authorities of all-European international organizations” in book “Integracija un etnopolitika”, Riga, 2000. – 514 p.
14. “On the issues of the future role of national minorities in Europe and in Ukraine within the context of broadening of authorities of all-European international organizations. In the book: “At the threshold of millennium: modern approaches to development of communities and regions” International conference materials. Institute for Public Administration and Regional Development, USU, Uzhgorod State University, March 14-15, 2000, Uzhgorod, - 300 p. (Ukrainian).
15. To the issue of the history of relations between Ukraine and European institutions and place of Council of Europe in this process”, “Actualny problemy polityky” (Odesa National Academy of Law) # 9, 2000. – Odesa (Russian).
16. “International European organizations and national minorities in contemporary Europe”, “Doslidzennia svitovoji polityky”(Institute of World Economy and International Relations, NAS of Ukraine) #12, 2000 – Kyiv. (Ukrainian).
17. “The factors of Ukrainian integration into Europe”, “Doslidzennia svitovoji polityky”(Institute of World Economy and International Relations, NAS of Ukraine) #9, 2000. – P. 24-29. – Kyiv. (Ukrainian).
18. “Integration of Ukraine in Europe: factors “pro and contra” in book “Europe on the eve on new area”, 2000, Kyiv (Russian).
19. “Relationship among Ukraine, European Union and the Council of Europe within period from 1991 till nowadays” in book «European Integration in a Changing World», Prague, 1999. – 402.(English).
20. “The Council of Europe and democratic reforms in Ukraine’’. Odesa State University. 1998. – Odesa. (Ukrainian).
21. “Ukraine in the system of European Integration”. Inst. of Social Science, Odessa University, 1997. – Odesa. (Russian).

International conferences, seminars, schools:

High School-exchange program (South Saint Paul, 1990). “New Democracies in Europe: Translating The West” (Vienna, 1995; Odesa, 1996). Annual ISHA Conference (Vienna, 1996). International Affairs Network (St. Petersburg, 1997). 2nd annual junior scholars conference, Jan Masaryk Center of International Studies at the University of Economics (Prague, 1998). «Change of societies in transition Ethnic Policy and Civil Society» (Riga, 1998). 1st Annual Convention of Central and Eastern European Association of International Studies (Prague, 1999). Case Writing Seminar (International Affairs Network) (Pittsburgh, 1999). ISHA Conference “Being Young in Europe. Education and Cultural Frontiers throughout History” (Bucharest, 2000). Summer School on European International Relations (Tampere, 2000). “Teaching European Studies in South-Eastern Europe” (Sofia, 2001). Young Scholars International conference “European Integration – Impacts of Globalization” (Prague, 2001). European Studies summer course at International Economic University (London, 2001). Higher Education Support Program Summer School course director orientation (Budapest, 2002). "Together towards Europe" (Warsaw, 2003). "Political Science and State Authorities Interaction in the Formation of the Political Processes in Russian Federation and New Independent States" (Ekaterinburg 2004). “Facing the European Elections” (Budapest, 2004). “Enlargement and the future of European Union: parallel paths or crossroads?” (Warsaw, 2004). “Enlargement and New Europe after 2004” (Aix-en-Provence, 2004). Visiting Scholar, Centre for Nations in Transition, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs (Minneapolis, 2005). Annual convention of American Political Science Association (Washington, 2005). Petro Jacyk Visiting Scholar, Munk Centre for International Studies (Toronto, 2005). “Young NGOs representatives and students from Ukraine” to NATO HQ and SHAPE (Brussels, 2006). “Black-Caspian Seas Regional Security: Frozen Conflicts, New Challenges and Adequate Responses” (Tbilisi, 2006). “European Democracy – EU Problem or Solution?” (Trento, 2006). 4^th convention of the Russian International Studies Association “Space and time in world politics and international relations” (Moscow, 2006). “European Union and Its New Neighborhood: Addressing Challenges and Opportunities” (Vilnius, 2006). Orientation and General Program Meeting of Regional Seminar for Excellence in Teaching, the Open Society Institute’s Higher Education Support Program (Istanbul, 2007).

Currant projects:

• Administrative coordinator from Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University (partner) – Erasmus+ project 586281-EPP-1-2017-1-EE-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP-Rethinking Regional Studies: The Baltic-Black Sea Connection - 2017-present.
• Expert, Eurasia Peace Studies Exchange Network (EPSE), project of Center for Peace Studies, University of Tromso, Norway’s Arctic University (UiT) – 2017 - present.
• Project manager from Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University (partner) – Nuclear Proliferation International History Project within History and Public Policy Program of Wilson Center, funded by Carnegie Corporation of NY – 2016 – present.
• Project manager, “Cooperation in the Field of Nuclear Non-proliferation Education of Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University and Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (SSM)” – 2009 – present.

Fluent in Ukrainian, Russian and English languages.

Department of International Relations, Faculty of International Relations, Political Science and Sociology,
Odesa I.I. Mechnikov National University,
2, Vsevoloda Zmienko, Odesa, Ukraine, 65082.

Telephone (+380 482) 63 32 59; Fax (+380 482) 68 72 84;
E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

ORCID ID: Iuliia Maystrenko
Google Scholar: Iuliia Maistrenko

Main Courses: Political doctrines of the XXth - XXIth centuries.

• Since January2019 - Associated Professor, Department of International Relations.
• 2016 -2018 - Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations.
• Since June 2016 - Ph.D. in Political Sciences
• 2011- 2016 - Leading expert of the Center of International Studies.

Native language: Russian, Ukrainian.
Other languages: English, Turkish.

List of main publications:

1. “The influence of the process of globalization on the Western Balkan ethnic conflicts (in the example of Bosnia and Herzegovina)”. Bulletin of the Odessa National University. 16 (10) (2011): 869 - 875. (in Ukrainian).
2. “Evolution of the political system in Ukraine and the Western Balkans: a comparative analysis.” Bulletin of the Odessa National University.16 (11) (2011):167 - 173. (in Ukrainian).
3. “Evolution of cross-border cooperation between the countries of the Western Balkans: losses and achievements”. Bulletin of the Odessa National University. 17 (2) (2012): 164 - 171. (in Ukrainian).
4. “The process of European integration of the Western Balkans: problems and prospects”. Bulletin of the Odessa National University. 2 (18) (2013): 139 - 146. (in Ukrainian).
5. “The Impact of the World Economic Crisis on the Transformation Processes in the Western Balkans”. Scientific Herald. 4 (224) (2015): 143-153. (in Ukrainian).
6. “Study of political transformations in the Western Balkans region at the beginning of the XXI century”. In International Relations and Politics of States in the Frames of Global Transformations: Analysis of Contemporary Political Thought, edited by І. Koval, О. Brusylovska, 183-200. Оdesa: ОNU, 2016. (in Ukrainian).
7. “South-East and West Balkan directions of Ukraine's foreign policy”. In Strategic Culture and Foreign Policy of Ukraine, edited by І. Koval, О. Brusylovska, V. Dubovyk, 204-226. Оdesa: ONU, 2017. (in Ukrainian) (in co-authorship with I. Maksimenko).
8. “Cyberterrorism as a Modern Security Threat” / Y.I. Maistrenko. In Ukraine in the context of transformation of the international security system. Proceedings of the International Scientific and Practical Conference, 162-164, 2019. (in Ukrainian)/
9. Contemporary Foreign Policy of Serbia: EU or Russia? / Y.I. Maistrenko // International and Political Studies, 32 (2019): 154-170. (in Ukrainian).
10. “NATO Factor in the Western Balkans States' Foreign Policy in the Beginning of the XXI Century”. European Political and Law Discourse. 2 (4) (2015): 53-58.
11. Maystrenko Y. NATO Factor in Western Balkan States' Foreign Policy in the Beginning of the XXI Century // European Political and Law Discourse. - 2015. - Vol. 2, Issue 4. - P. 53-58.
12.  Maistrenko Y. Peculiarities of the formation of Azerbaijani-Turkish relations: losses and gains // Politicus. - 2022. - No. 3. - P. 83-89. (in Ukrainian)
13. Maistrenko Y.I., Velyka O.V. Peculiarities of Ukrainian-Japanese relations in the period 2017-2021 // Politicus. - 2022. - No. 4. - P. 111-115. (in Ukrainian)
14. Maistrenko Yu. I., Protsenko D. P. The impact of the migration crisis on the change of EU policy in the Mediterranean in 2015-2022. // Regional studies. - 2022. - No. 31. - P.119-123 (in Ukrainian)
15. Maistrenko Y.I., Velyka O.V. European integration policy of the countries of the Western Balkans (on the example of the Republic of North Macedonia) // Southern Ukrainian Law Journal. Special issue. - 2022. - No. 4. (in Ukrainian)
16. Maistrenko Y. I., Protsenko D. P. The impact of the migration crisis on the change of EU policy in the Mediterranean in 2015-2022 // Regional studies. - 2022. - No. 31. - P.119-123. (in Ukrainian)
17. Maistrenko Y. I., Melnychenko A.V. The problem of illegal migration in the EU: an attempt to solve it through the formation of bilateral agreements // International and political studies // 2024. - Issue 38. - P.64-76. (in Ukrainian)
18. Brusylovska O., Maystrenko Yu. Western Balkans // Ukrainian Prism: Foreign Policy 2023. Analytical study / NGO "Foreign Policy Council "Ukrainian Prism", Foundation named after F. Ebert. Kyiv: Vistka, 2024. - P.191-195. (in Ukrainian)
19. Brusylovska O., Maystrenko Yu. “Russia in the politics of South Caucasus countries after 2022”. International Relations, 2024. https://doi.org/10.12688/stomiedintrelat.17868.1
20. Maistrenko Y., Moroz A. Migration in the Mediterranean: “Human Security” // Multidimensional Regionalism in the Mediterranean: Actors and Challenges. Brusylovska, O., Erdoğan, S., & Irrera, D. (eds.) Odesa: Astroprint, 2024. P. 61-83.

International conferences, seminars, schools:

Ukrainian scientific and practical conference "Global and national transformations of modern society" (Kiev, 2011). IX International Scientific and Practical Conference of Students, Postgraduates and Young Scientists "Shevchenko’s Spring" (Kyiv, 2011). Third Annual European Conference on the Functioning of Political Parties: "The Evolution of Democratic Governance in Europe: Past, Present, Future" (Dusseldorf, 2011).

V International Scientific Conference "Socio-Cultural and Political Integration: Local, Regional and Global Dimension" (Odessa, 2011). International scientific conference "Revision of Democracy: New Theories, Politics and Social Practices" (Celje, 2012). Third International Scientific Conference devoted to the problems of social sciences (Moscow, 2012). VI International Scientific Conference "Social and Political Transformations in a Crisis Society: Local, Regional and Global Dimension" (Odessa, 2013). Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Conference "Communication and Discrimination in the Context of Developing a Modern Information Society" (Chernivtsi, 2015).

International scientific and practical conference "Social, psychological and political problems of transborder security" (Odessa, 2016). International scientific conference "Social and political transformations in Central and Eastern Europe (1917-2017)" (Odessa, 2017). European conference on social and behavioral sciences (Odessa, 2017). International Scientific and Practical Conference "Ukraine in the Conditions of Transformation of the International Security System" (Lviv, 2019). International scientific and practical conference "Image of Ukraine: socio-political representations and linguistic reflection of war realities in foreign and domestic mass media" (Odesa, 2023). 26th International Turkish Cooperative Congress (Madrid, 2024)

On-going projects: 

1. HORIZON-CL2-2023-DEMOCRACY-01-08 "Geopolitical EU Expansion in the Eastern Neighborhood and the Western Balkans" No. 101132692 — GEO-POWER-EU (2024 - 2027), 
2. ERASMUS-JMO-2021-HEI-TCH-RSCH project "Mediterranean ring: regional studies" No. 101047919 — MEDITERreg (2022 - 2025).

Department of International Relations, Faculty of International Relations, Political Science and Sociology, Odesa I.I. Mechnikov National University. 2 Vsevoloda Zmienko, Odesa, Ukraine, 65082.

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Courses: 1) Foreign Policy of Ukraine. 2) History of International Relations, 3000 BC – mid. of 17th century AC (till September 2024); 3) Ukraine in the System of International Security 4) The EU Policy towards the Mediterranean Region; 5) The EU policy towards the Black and Mediterranean Sea region; 6) Conflict studies (since February 2025).

• 2018 – Associated Professor, Department of International Relations.
• 2001 – 2017 – Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations
• 2014 – PhD in Political Sciences, Specialty «Political Problems of International Systems and Global Development»
• 2001 – Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Studies, Odessa I.I. Mechnikov National University
• 2001 – MA, specialty «International Relations» (Odessa I.I. Mechnikov National University).

List of main publications

• Russia’s Policy Towards the Mediterranean Region. In Brusylovska, O., Erdogan, S. & Irrera, D. (eds.). Multinational Regionalism in the Mediterranean: Actors and Challenges. Odesa: Astroprint, 2024.
• Russian dr. Strangelove or how Moscow never stopped loving the bomb: Russia's approach to deterrence. International and Political Studies. Interpolis. 2024. №38. Р. 275-287. (in co-authorship with P. Sinovets).
• The impact of Russia’s propaganda on security perceptions in Romania and Bulgaria. European Political Science: Symposium. May 2024.
  https://doi.org/10.1057/s41304-024-00478-5 (in co-authorship with G. Grabina).
• Nuclear threat in Russia’s war against Ukraine: the IAEA and the EU position. Politicus. 2024. 1. P. 160-167.
• Nuclear Deterrence in Russia’s War on Ukraine: the Credibility Dilemma. Russia’s War on Ukraine. The Implications for the Global Nuclear order / Ed. By Aderito Vicente, Polina Sinovets, Julien Theron. Springer Nature Switzerland, AG 2023. P.141-152. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32221-1_10. (in co-authorship with P. Sinovets).
• The Impact of Russia’s War against Ukraine on Finland and Sweden’s Decision to Join NATO: Effects on the Global Nuclear Order. Russia’s War on Ukraine: The Implications for the Global Nuclear Order. / Ed. by Aderito, V., Sinovets, P., Theron, J.. Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2023. P. 229-246. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32221-1_16. (in co-authorship with A. Vicente, M.A. Alkış).
• Russia’s Strategy in the Black and Mediterranean Seas: Challenges of 2022 and Beyond. // Crisis of the Modern International Security System: Ukrainian Peace Formula. Proceedings of the international scientific conference. (Lviv, April 21, 2023) / Edited by: Malskyy M., Vovk R., Kuchyk O. Lviv: Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. 2023.
• Nuclear Security in Ukraine and the Black Sea Region: New Threats, New Risks, New Consequences. SIPRI Research Policy Paper. 2023. March. https://doi.org/10.55163/OIPI2439 (in co-authorship with V. Fedchenko, P. Sinovets, W. Wilfred).
• Analysis of the media discourse on the 2022 war in Ukraine: The case of Russia. // Regional Science Policy & Practice. Special Issue: Ukraine: Geopolitical Realities and Regional Development Perspectives. 2022 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/rsp3.12579 (in co-authorship with O. Brusylovska).
•  Regional Approaches to Strengthening the Eastern Flank of NATO: Case of Poland and Romania. In Sinovets, P. & Alberque W. (eds.). Arms Control and Europe. New Challenges and Prospects for Strategic Stability. Springer, 2022. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-03891-4_15  
•  Ukraine’s Contribution to the Soviet Union’s Nuclear Programme. In Sinovets, P. (ed.). Ukraine’s Nuclear History. A Non-Proliferation Perspective. Springer, 2022. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-90661-0_2 (in co-authorship)
•  Nuclear Disarmament of Ukraine. In Sinovets, P. (ed.). Ukraine’s Nuclear History. A NonProliferation Perspective. Springer, 2022. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-90661-0_3 (in co-authorship)
•  Security assurances: Current challenges and implications for the future. EUNPD Policy Paper, 2022. http://odcnp.com.ua/ukraine-and-npt-regime/247-security-assurances-current- challenges-and-implications-for-the-future
• Security assurances: Current challenges and implications for the future. EUNPD Policy Paper, 2022. The EU Ad Hoc Seminar of the EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Consortium "War in Ukraine: The impact on the international security architecture: nonproliferation, disarmament, arms control, export controls". May 16-17, 2022, Brussels, Belguim. URL: http://odcnp.com.ua/ukraine-and-npt-regime/247-security-assurances-currentchallenges-and-implications-for-the-future
• - The Russian roulette: the Kremlin’s escalation strategy in the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea. Lithuanian Annual Strategic Review. 2021. V. 19, Is. 1 (in co-authorship with P. Sinovets and M. Skrypnyk).
• Relations between Ukraine and Romania: the impact of the EU and Russia’s policy. In Historical Yearbook 2021. V. 18, N. XVIII. 
• Східне партнерство. У Європейський Союз у міжнародних відносинах: навч. посіб. / В. В. Копійка, С. О. Маковський, М. А. Миронова ; за заг. ред. В. В. Копійки. – К.: ВПЦ «Київський університет», 2021. (in co-authorship with D. Kuzmin).
• Безпекове cпівробітництво ЄС з Україною в умовах гібридних викликів та загроз. У Акторність ЄС в часи COVID-19 та політика щодо сусідів: матеріали круглого столу, Одеса, 4 серпня 2021 / ОНУ імені І. І. Мечникова; ГО «Сприяння між культ. Співробітництву» ; за заг. ред.  Брусилоської О. І. Одеса: Феніксв, 2021. 
• US withdrawal from the open skies treaty: consequences for international security and stability. International and Political Studies. 2021. Vol. 34. (in co-authorship with V. Matuyzo).
• EU Policy Towards the Black Sea Region: Clash of Interests, Responsibility and Threats. In Black Sea Region in World Policy: Actors, Factors, and Scenarios of Future. Ed. By O. Brusylovska, I. Koval, V. Dubovyk. Odesa, Odesa Mechnikov National University, 2020. 
• Prospects of Regional Cooperation in the Black Sea: In search of New Paradigm. In Crisis of Current Security System. International Conference Papers, Lviv, September 25, 2020.  
• East-West Borders: Possibilities of Poland’s and Romania’s CBC with Ukraine In Old Borders – New Challenges, New Borders – Old Challenges. De-Bordering and Re-Bordering in Contemporary Europe /  Jaroslaw Janczak (ed.). – Logos Verlag Berlin, 2019. (in co-authorship with O. Brusylovska).
• The Baltic-Black Sea region in great powers’ relations: the hard power aspect. In Baltic-Black Sea Regionalisms. Patchworks and Networks at Europe's Eastern Margins / Bogdanova Olga, Makarychev Andrey (Eds.). Springer, 2019. DOI 978-3-030-24878-9_6 (in co-authorship with P. Sinovets).
• Ukraine-Romania Relations in the context of the EU Regional Initiatives. International and Political Studies. 2019. Vol. 24, Is. 32.
• Crisis and Conflict Resolution as an Instrument of EU-Ukraine Security Cooperation. ONU Herald. Political Science. 2018. Vol. 23, Issue 2 (31). 
• Security cooperation in the triangle "Poland - Ukraine - Romania": realities and prospects. ONU Herald. Sociology and Politics. 2017. Vol. 22, Issue 2 (29).
• Ukraine – European Union Relations through the Prism of Strategic Culture. In Strategic Culture and Foreign Policy of Ukraine/ Ed. by I. Koval, O. Brusylovska, V. Dubovyk. – Odessa, 2017. – Р. 54-75(in co-authorship with D. Kuzmin).
• The South-Eastern Europe and Western Balkans in the Ukrainian Foreign Policy. In Strategic Culture and Foreign Policy of Ukraine/ Ed. by I. Koval, O. Brusylovska, V. Dubovyk. – Odessa, 2017. – Р. 200-221(in co-authorship with Y. Maystrenko).
• Тhe European Union and Conflict Resolution: Practice and Lessons for Ukraine. International Relations. "Political Sciences" Series № 11 (2016) http://journals.iir.kiev.ua/index.php/pol_n/issue/view/164
• United Europe in New Millennium: Аnalysis of Scientific Аpproaches. In International Relations and Policy of States under Conditions of Global Transformations: the Analysis of Modern Political Thought / Institute of Social Sciences, Odessa I.I. Mechnikov National University; edited by I.M. Koval, O.I. Brusylovska. – Odessa: ONU, 2016. – P. 89-112.
• Eastern European Regional Cooperation After Crimea: the Art of Possible UA: Ukraine Analytica. 2015. Issue 2(2).
• Is Neutrality a Solution for Ukraine's Security? In Ukraine after Euromaidan: Challenges and Hopes / Viktor Stepanenko and Yaroslav Pylynskyi, Eds. Bern: Peter Lang, 2014. 
• Ukrainian factor of the European Union foreign policy towards the Eastern Partnership countries: challenges of 2014. ONU Herald. Series Sociology and Political Science. Volume 19, Issue 2 (21). Odessa: Astroprint, 2014.
• Regional dimension of the European Union policy towards Eastern Partnership countries. In Eastern Partnership: aims – experience – challenges. Implementation process analysis in the partner states : ed. by P. Bajor. – Krakow: Rsiegarnia Academicka, 2013.
• The strategic priorities of Ukraine in the Black Sea Region : Analytical Paper. – Odessa, 2013. 
• Perspectives of the EU-Ukraine cooperation at the process of Transnistria Conflict’ Settlement. In Ukraine Policy at the Black and Caspian Sea in the Context of the EU Strategy: from Interaction to Cooperation: collection of Papers of Conference (Odesa, July 2008 р.) / Ed. by O. Volovych. Оdesa, 2008. 
• Perspectives of Black Sea Region Integration and the Interests of the EU. Black Sea Security. 2008. № 2 (8). 
• Ukraine, Romania and Bulgaria on the Way to Regional Leadership: Ukrainian Perspectives. Strategic Panorama 2008. № 2. 
• Conflicts and Security Threats in the Wider Black Sea Region”. Black Sea Calling. Ed. by M. Sully. Diplomatic Academy of Vienna. – Favorita Papers – Special Edition 2008. (co-authorship with M. Vorotnyuk).

International Conferences, workshops, schools, trainings

Seminar «Ukraine – Poland - Europe» (November 19-25, 2024, Gdansk, Poland); Annual EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Consortium Conference (November 12-14, Brussels, Belgium); Annual meeting of the Black Sea Women in Nuclear and «Black Sea Experts NucTalks: Balancing Security, Energy, and Diplomacy» (November 3-7, 2024, Constanta, Romania); ХІV OdCNP International Summer School “Moving to the Threshold: Global Nuclear Trends ” (October 21-25, 2024, Malta);  5th Tbilisi International Forum for Regional Stability Nuclear and Radiological Security in Turbulent Times – Shaping the future of the Black Sea Region” (September 23-24, 2024, Tbilisi, Georgia); 2024 Armament and Disarmament Summer School of Alva Murdal Center for Nuclear Disarmament and   Stokholm International Peace Research Institute  (August 25-30, 2024, Stokholm, Sweden); ІХ Batumi Summer University «Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime in Protracted Crisis: Lessons from past, challenging present and options for solutions» (August 21-23, 2024, Batumi, Georgia); ICONS 2024 (May 20-25 2024, Vienna, Austria); Scientific Exchange, Center for Higher Defense Studies (CASD) under the project «The Ring of Mediterranean: Region Studies» ERASMUS-JMO-2021-HEITCH-RSCH (AGREEMENT NUMBER – 101047919) (April 15-19, 2024, Rome, Italy); The US-Black Sea Nonproliferation Professionals Exchange Module (March 2-10, Monterey, USA); XIII OdCNP Summer School “Dancing in the Dark: the Future of Nuclear Order” (October 3-6 2023, Bodrum, Turkey); International Conference “Image of Ukraine: Socio-Political Representations and Linguistic Reflection of Military Realities in Foreign and Domestic Media” (June 15-16, 2023, Odesa); US-Black Sea Nonproliferation Professional Exchange Tbilisi Regional Module (11-12 of May, 2023, Tbilisi, Georgia); 73rd PSA Annual International Conference: Rhetoric, Discourse and Politics and Media and Politics SG: Media and Rhetoric panel  (3-5 April, 2023, the University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom); Workshop “War on Ukraine and the Nuclear World Order” (February 6-7, 2023, Levallois-Perret, France); On-line ‘World Academic Talks’ Roundtable “Intersections of Geopolitics and Political Communication: Lessons from the War in Ukraine” (December 5, 2022); EU Non-proliferation and Disarmament Conference (November 14-15, 2022, Brussels); IV Tbilisi International Forum for Regional Stability Nuclear and radiological security in the Black Sea region in light of new and evolving threats and circumstances (November 8-9, Tbilisi, Georgia); XII OdCNP Summer School "Responding to New Nuclear Realities: Concepts and Actions” (October 10-14, 2022, Bodrum, Turkey); Expert discussion "Illiberalism through the lens of Europe's new geo-political reality" The Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Module “Neighbourhood Enlargement and Regionalism in Europe” (NearEU) (September 20-23, 2022, Tartu, Estonia); Round table “The impact of the war in Ukraine on Academic Freedom” of the European Consortium for Political Research Annual General Conference (August 23, Innsbruck, Austria); Warsaw East European Conference “Still without peace” (July 1-2, 2022, Warsaw, Poland); The workshop “Nuclear Ukraine: Russian rhetoric and security consequences” (May 18, 2022, Brussels, Belguim); the EU Ad Hoc Seminar of the EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Consortium "War in Ukraine: The impact on the international security architecture: nonproliferation, disarmament, arms control, export controls" (May 16-17, 2022, Brussels, Belguim); International Workshop “Arms control and Europe: New Challenges and Prospects for Strategic Stability” (October 15-16, 2021, Odesa); ERASMUS+ “Rethinking Regional Studies: The Baltic-Black Sea Connection”Training “Reflecting on the changed landscape of higher education in light of rapid digitalization” (23-24 вересня, 2021, Одеса); ХІ Odesa International Summer School “Arms control and nonproliferation: global and regional trends 2021” (August 25-29, 2021, Odesa);  International Conference “Crisis of Current Security System” (Lviv, September 25, 2020); Odessa X International Summer School “Current Challenges for Nonproliferation and Disarmament: Regional Perspectives” (Odesa, August 23-28 2020); Seminar-training “Academic integrity and plagiarism” (Odesa, February 17-21);  IX Odesa International Seminar “The International Security Agenda 2019: Arms Control and Nonproliferation” (Odesa, 2019); International Conference “The Odesa Debate” Uniting Ukraine, the Black Sea Region and the Transatlantic Partners (Odesa, 2019); Training in the framework of the international project Erasmus + "Rethinking of Regional Studies: Baltic-Black Sea Connection" (Poznan, Poland 2018; Tartu, Estonia 2019; Odesa, Ukraine, 2019; Kaunas, Lithuania, 2020).

Department of International Relations, Faculty of International Relations, Political Science and Sociology, Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University, 2, Vsevolod Zmiienko Street, Odesa, Ukraine, 65082.

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Main Courses: 1) Diplomatic protocol and etiquette. 2) Diplomatic and consular service. 3) Arabic.

Since 2014 – Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations.

He has extensive practical experience at the Ukrainian diplomatic missions to the Middle East as well as regional European organizations.

Mother tongues: Ukrainian, Russian. Other languages: English, Arabic, German.

List of main publications:

• Levant countries and Egypt in the policy of Ukraine // Strategic Culture and Foreign Policy of Ukraine / Еd. by I. Koval, O. Brusylovska, and V. Dubovyk. - Odesa: Odesa National І. І. Mechnikov University, 2017. - P. 166-185 (with Iryna Zubarenko).
• Several Peculiarities of Arab Protocol and Etiquette in the Context of Intercultural Communication// Materials of scientific and practical conference “Actual Problems of philology: recent scientific discussions edited by Ivan Stupak (23-24 March, 2018, International Humanitarian University, the Faculty of Linguistics and Translation). – Odessa: MGU, 2018. – P. 234-236.
• Arab Countries of Asia// Country Studies through Language. Part 1: Manual/ Edited by Iryna Zubarenko, Oksana Snigovska, Yuliia Tarasiuk – Odessa, 2018.
• Jordan: Arab Spring Syndrome and Acute Challenge from the Islamic State// Odessa National University Herald. Sociology and Politics. – Series:  Politics. – 2018. – Volume 23. – Issue 2(31). –Added to Index Copernicus International database.
• Migration Processes and Legal Adjustment: Chechen Migrants to the EU and Circassian Minority in Jordan // Visnyk of the Lviv University. Philosophical Political studies. – 2019. – Issue  24, с.191– 197. – Added to Index Copernicus International database. 
• Europe of Regions: Do Stronger Regions Lead to Separatism Sentiments? //UA: Ukraine Analytica. – Issue 2(16), 2019. https://ukraine-analytica.org
• Difficulties Encountered in the Process of Europeanization for Public Service in Ukraine // Materials of Scientific and Practical Conference “European Integration in the Context of Globalization Process” (December 19, 2019, Odessa Regional Institute of Public Administration). – Odessa: ORIPA, 2020. – P. 193-198.
• Qatar Crisis in the Midst of Proxy Wars in the Region. // WayScience. – The 10th International Scientific and Practical Conference “Modern Movement of Science”, Dnipro, Ukraine, April 2-3, 2020. http://www.wayscience.com
• Rhetoric on Service of Russia’s Information Warfare // Rhetoric and Communications Journal. – Issue 43, April 2020. rhetoric.bg  
• The Istanbul Canal: Geographical Waterway or Geopolitical Bypass? European Scientific Discussions, Proceedings of VIII International Scientific and Practical Conference, Potere della ragione Editore, Rome, Italy. 2021. P.285-291. sci-conf.com.ua
• Regional Reconciliation Efforts Haven’t Put the Final Point in the Persian Gulf Crises. pp. 674-684. The 12th International scientific and practical conference “Modern directions of scientific research development.” (May 18-20, 2022). BoScience Publisher, Chicago, USA. 2022. 930 p. sci-conf.com.ua
• The 2019 – 2021 Lebanon civil protests: concise comparison with Moldova and Belarus peaceful rallies and assemblies //  Inter Polis. International and political studies. – 2022. – Issue  35, P. 93-105. Odessa: Astroprint, 2022
• A Radical Shift in Turkey's Foreign Policy toward Syria. The 5th International scientific and practical conference “Science and innovation of modern world (January 25–27, 2023) Cognum Publishing House, London, United Kingdom. 2023. 672 pp., P. 406–417. Poble, D., Belinska, P. sci-conf.com.ua
• A Radical Shift in Turkey's Foreign Policy toward Syria. The 5th International scientific and practical conference “Science and innovation of modern world (January 25–27, 2023) Cognum Publishing House, London, United Kingdom. 2023. 672 p. P. 406–417. Poble, D. & Belinska, P. (2023 January, 25). sci-conf.com.ua
• Collision trends in the bilateral relations of Egypt and Ethiopia during the last decade. InterPolis: International and Political Studies. 2023. Issue 36, P. 104-115. Poble D. K., Mindelis A.N. http://heraldiss.onu.edu.ua/issue/view/17140/9873
• Turkey’s Foreign Policy towards the States in Central Asia and the Northern Caucasus.  Science and Society: Modern Trends in a Changing World. The 2nd International scientific and practical conference “Science and society: modern trends in a changing world” (January 22-24, 2024). MDPC Publishing, Vienna, Austria. 2024. P. 469-475. Poble D., Zeinalov D. sci-conf.com.ua
• Grenzüberschreitende Zusammenarbeit am Beispiel der Region Odessa an der Schnittstelle zweier Jahrzehnte des aktuellen Jahrtausends /  Cross–Border Cooperation in Odesa Region at the Junction of Two Millenia [in German]. International scientific and practical conference “The Current Stage of the Development of Scientific and Technological Progress '2024”, February 20, 2024, Issue 31, 76227 Karlsruhe, Germany. P. 100-104. Poble D., Tereshchenko A. DOI: 10.30890/2709-1783.2024-31-00-013 
• Machttransit im Tschad unter grenzüberschreitenden Umfeld / Transit of Power in Chad under a Cross-Border Environment [in German]. International scientific and practical conference “Scientific and Technological Revolution of the XXI Century '2024”, April 20, 2024. Issue No 32, 76227 Karlsruhe, Germany. P. 103-107. Dmytro Poble, Mariia Kanevskiy. DOI: 10.30890/2709-1783.2024-32-00-012
• Russia’s Propaganda in the Middle East or Intercultural Advantage? / InterPolis: International and Political Studies. 2024. Issue 37, P. 238-247. Poble D., Tsyberman А. DOI: https://doi.org/10.32782/2707-5206.2024.37.21 
• Geopolitische Positionierung der Ukraine  in der aktuellen Phase /  Geopolitical Positioning of Ukraine at the Present Stage [in German]. International periodic scientific journal “Modern Engineering and innovative technologies”, Indexed in Index Copernicus. Issue No 31, Part 4, February 2024. 76227 Karlsruhe, Germany. P. 82-89. Poble D.,Tereshchenko A. https://www.moderntechno.de/index.php/meit/issue/view/meit31-04
•  Mediation Mission of China in the Normalization of Relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia. International periodic scientific journal “Modern Engineering and innovative technologies”, Indexed in Index Copernicus. Issue No 32, Part 4, April 2024. Sergeieva & Co, Lussstr. 13, 76227 Karlsruhe, Germany. P. 22-32. Poble D. & Belinska P.  DOI: 10.30890/2567-5273.2024-32-00-069 

International conferences, seminars, schools:

The 5th  Annual Scientific and Practical Conference "European Integration in the Context of World Globalization Processes" (Odesa, 2016). The 14th European Conference of Social Sciences and Theory of Behaviorism (Odesa, 2017). International Scientific and Practical Conference “Actual Problems of Philology: Current Scientific Discussions” (Odesa, 2018). The 8th Annual Scientific and Practical Conference "European Integration in the Context of World Globalization Processes" (Odesa, 2019). The 10th International Scientific and Practical Conference “Modern Movement of Science”, Dnipro, Ukraine, April 2-3, 2020. The 8th International scientific and practical conference “European scientific discussions”, Rome, Italy, 20-22 June 2021. The 2nd International Scientific and Practical Conference “Ukrainian Army: the Main Stages of the Struggle for State Independence of Ukraine”, Kyiv, Ukraine, November 26, 2021. International scientific conference “Connecting Minds, Creating the Future”; Kyiv, Ukraine – Dubai, UAE; December 2, 2021. The 12th International scientific and practical conference “Modern directions of scientific research development.” May 18-20, 2022, Chicago, USA. The 5th International scientific and practical conference “Science and innovation of modern world (January 25–27, 2023) London, United Kingdom. The 2nd International scientific and practical conference “Science and society: modern trends in a changing world” (January 22–24, 2024). Vienna, Austria. International scientific and practical conference “The Current Stage of the Development of Scientific and Technological Progress '2024”, February 20, 2024, Karlsruhe, Germany. International scientific and practical conference “Scientific and Technological Revolution of the XXI Century '2024”, April 20, 2024. Karlsruhe, Germany.

Department of International Relations, Faculty of International Relations, Political Science and Sociology,
Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University,
2, Vsevolod Zmiienko, Odesa, Ukraine, 65082.

Telephone (+380 482) 63 32 59; Fax (+380 482) 68 72 84;
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ORCID ID: Mikhail Pokas
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Main Courses:

• Political geography.
• The history of international relations
• Theory of the state foreign policy.
• Geopolitics
• Since 2004 – Associate professor, Department of International Relations.
• 2001-2004 – Assistant professor, Department of Modern and Contemporary History.
• 2001 – PhD in History (specialty 07.00.02 – World History), Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University. Title of Thesis: “Conceptual evolution of US policy in the issue of denuclearization of Ukraine (1991-1997)”.

Native language: Russian, Ukrainian.
Other languages: English.

List of main publications:

1. “Denuclearization of Ukraine and the role of the United States in Ukraine's decision on nuclear disarmament (1991-1992): an analysis of American political thought”. In International Relations and Politics of States in the Frames of Global Transformations: Analysis of Contemporary Political Thought, edited by І. Koval, О. Brusylovska. Оdesa: ОNU, 2016 (in Ukrainian).
2. “Ukrainian-Chinese relations”. In Strategic Culture and Foreign Policy of Ukraine, ed. by I. Koval, O. Brusylovska, and V. Dubovyk, 135-150. Odesa, 2017.
3. “The problem of the Diaoyu Islands / Senkaku archipelago in the context of the evolution of the international security system in the Far East” in International Relations, "Political Science" Series. http://journals.iir.kiev.ua/index.php/pol_n/article/view/2906 (in Russian).
4. "The evolution of large surface warships of the PLA Navy as part of the construction of the “Blue Water Fleet” (2000-2018)" In Military-historical Work in the Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Problematic issues and ways to solution". - Odesa: Institute of Naval Forces of the National University "Odesa Maritime Academy", 2019. - P. 175-182.
5. Brusylovska O. I., Pokas M. S. Regional factors influencing the modern system of international relations. In Global, regional and local factors of the formation of the modern system of international relations / ed. Koval I. M., Brusylovska O. I. Odesa: Astroprint, 2023. P. 7-69. (in Ukrainian).
6. Pokas M. S. The role of borders in the formation of foreign policy: the case of the People's Republic of China. In Global, regional and local factors of the formation of the modern system of international relations / ed. Koval I. M., Brusylovska O. I. Odesa: Astroprint, 2023. P. 325-357. (in Ukrainian).

International conferences, seminars, schools:

"Triangle Ukraine-Romania-Moldova: Building a Comprehensive Strategy for the Region" (Odesa, 2010). Ukraine and the states of the Middle East: problems, challenges and prospects for the development of relations (Odesa, 2011). Social, psychological and political problems of cross-border security (Odesa, 2016). Social and political transformations in Central and Eastern Europe (1917-2017): factors, achievements, problems (Odesa, 2017). China-Ukraine: Prospects for Academic and Business Cooperation (Odessa, 2019). "Between Dependency and Independency of Academic Cultures. The Interwar Black Sea Region" (Odesa, 2019). "Teacher Training on Academic Wrighting and Plagiarism" (Lviv, 2019).

On-going projects: 

HORIZON-CL2-2023-DEMOCRACY-01 «Empowering the Geopolitical EU in the Eastern Neighbourhood and the Western Balkans» (GEO-POWER-EU). 2024-2027.