Department of International Relations, Faculty of International Relations, Political Science and Sociology, Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University. 2 Dvoryanska, 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; 3) Ukraine in the International Security System; 4) EU policy towards Mediterranean region.

• 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 – 2019 – Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Studies, Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University
• 2001 – MA, specialty «International Relations» (Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University).

List of main publications

1. Brusylovska O., Maksymenko I. 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 (Scopus)
2. Sinovets P., Maksymenko I., Skrypnyk M. The Russian roulette: the Kremlin’s escalation strategy in the Baltic to the Black Sea regions. Lithuanian Annual Strategic Review. 2021. №19. P. 5-26 (Scopus)
3. The Baltic-Black Sea region in great powers’ relations: the hard power aspect // Baltic-Black Sea Regionalisms. Patchworks and Networks at Europe's Eastern Margins / Bogdanova Olga, Makarychev Andrey (Eds.). Springer, 2019. P. 75-88. DOI 978-3-030-24878-9_6 (in co-authorship with P. Sinovets).
4. 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. Odessa, 2017. Р. 54-75(in co-authorship with D. Kuzmin).
5. United Europe in New Millennium: Аnalysis of Scientific Аpproaches // International Relations and Policy of States under Conditions of Global Transformations: the Analysis of Modern Political Thought: monograph / Institute of Social Sciences, Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University; edited by I.M. Koval, O.I. Brusylovska. Odessa: ONU, 2016. P. 89-112.
6. Interests and ideas of the EU Big Three in the context of the European Integration Theory (communication aspects)//Реторика и политическа комуникация. Електронно научно списание. 2013. Брой 10. Режим доступу: http://rhetoric.bg/
7. Transformation Outlooks of European Security Policy in 1990s: differentiation of approaches // Doslidzhennja Svitovoi Polityki (Edition of Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Kyiv, Ukraine), 2002. No. 21. Р. 134-140.

International Conferences, workshops, schools, trainings

International Scientific and Practical Conference “Image of Ukraine: Socio-Political Representations and Linguistic Reflection of Military Realities in Foreign and Domestic Media” (June 15-16, 2023); 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); On-line ‘World Academic Talks’ Roundtable “Intersections of Geopolitics and Political Communication: Lessons from the War in Ukraine” jointly with Loughborough University (UK) (December 5, 2022); 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, University of Tartu); Warsaw East European Conference “Still without peace” (July 1-2, 2022, Warsaw, Poland); Seminar-training “Academic Writing and Plagiarism” (Odesa, February 17-20, 2020); Fall 2019 Visiting Fellow Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS), Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey (USA); 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); Academic Writing Seminar «Ukraine in Global Nuclear Nonproliferation and Arms Control: Political and Technic Dimensions» (Odesa, 2016); Training “Security Sector Reform. Slovak Experience (Odesa, 2015); Intensive course on Nonproliferation and disarmament at the Vienna Centre for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation (Vienna, Austria, 2014); Internship at the University of Babes-Boyai (Romania, 2014); Methodology Seminar on scenarios development “Ukraine-EU relations beyond Vilnius” (Kyiv, 2013-2014); Summer Schools in the frame of the International Project ReSET “European Union: normative, imperial, status quo or realpolitik type of international actor?” (Odesa, 2010-2013); Summer Schools in the frame of the International Project ReSET “European Security and CIS” (Odesa, 2004-2007); Advanced Study Institute (NATO Security Through Science Program) “Security Sector Transformation in the Wider Black Sea Area” (Bansko, Bulgaria, 2007); X Cervia International Summer School “Beyond the Enlargement. The Wider Europe and the New Neighborhood” (Cervia, Italy, 2004).