Current Research Projects

The European Union and its Eastern Partner Countries - An Inside-Out Analysis and Strategic Assessment (EU-STRAT) at Freie Universität Berlin

Education

2010: Ph.D in Political Science, European University Institute, Florence

2007: Master of Research, European University Institute, Florence

2005: Diploma in Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin

2004: International Master of Arts in Russian Studies, European University at St. Petersburg

Employment

since 05/2016: Academic Coordinator, H2020 research project EU-STRAT at Freie Universität Berlin

since 05/2012: Senior Research Fellow, Centre for European Integration at Freie Universität Berlin

2013 - 2016: Academic Coordinator, FP-7 research project MAXCAP at Freie Universität Berlin

since 10/2011: Associated Research Fellow, Research College “The Transformative Power of Europe“, Freie Universität Berlin

10/2011-04/2012: Visiting Assistant Professor for European Integration at Freie Universität Berlin

09/2010-09/2011: Postdoctoral fellow, Research College “The Transformative Power of Europe“, Freie Universität Berlin

09/2007-09/2010: Research Associate in the project “Transnational Integration Regimes and Domestic Institutional Change in Emerging Market Economies” at the European University Institute

2007 - 2009: Visiting fellowships at the Centre for European Policy Studies (Brussels), the International Centre for Policy Studies (Kyiv) and the Higher School of Economics (Moscow)

2006-2008: Guest lecturer, Freie Universität Berlin

Research Interests

• European Integration (special foci on EU enlargement and the European Neighbourhood Policy)

• Transnationalization

• Comparative public policy (special focus on Eastern Europe)

Monographs and Edited Volumes

• 2015: Transnationalization and regulatory change in the EU's Eastern neighbourhood. Ukraine between Brussels and Moscow, Routledge: London (published December 2014).
• 2013: Explaining Policy Change in the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood. Europe-Asia Studies. Special Section, 65 (4). (co-edited with T. A. Börzel), also published as an edited volume by Routledge in 2014.
• 2008: Die Transatlantische Bündnispolitik Deutschlands im Wandel? Eine politikwissenschaftliche Analyse der Position Deutschlands während der Irak-Krise 2002/2003. Saarbrücken, VDM.

Refereed Articles and Book Chapters

• co-authored with Bruszt, L. forthcoming: Varieties of Dis-embedded Liberalism. EU Integration Strategies in the Eastern Peripheries of Europe, in: Journal of European Public Policy.
• 2016: (Dis-)integrating Ukraine? Domestic Oligarchs, Russia, the EU and the politics of economic integration, in: Eurasian Geography and Economics, 57/1, 19-42.
• 2014: European Union governance towards the Eastern neighbourhood: Transcending or Redrawing Europe’s East-West Divide?, in: Journal of Common Market Studies 52/1, 157-174.
• co-authored with Bruszt, L. 2014: Strategies of Regulative Integration via Development: The integration of the Polish and Romanian dairy industries into the EU single market, in: Bruszt, L./McDermott, G. (eds): Transnational Regulatory Integration and Institutional Change in Emerging Markets, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• co-authored with Börzel, T. A. 2013: Introduction: Explaining Policy Change in the European Union's Eastern Neighbourhood, in: Europe-Asia Studies 65/4, 571-580.
• 2013: Unpacking the Russian and EU Impact on Policy Change in the Eastern Neighbourhood: The Case of Ukraine's Telecommunications and Food Safety, in: Europe-Asia Studies 65/4, 631-657.
• co-authored with Wolczuk, K. 2012: Convergence without membership? The impact of the European Union in the neighbourhood: evidence from Ukraine, Journal of European Public Policy 19/6, 863-881.

Other Articles, Book Chapters, and Working Papers

• co-authored with Bruszt, L. 2016, Varieties of Dis-embedded Liberalism – EU Integration Strategies in the Eastern Peripheries of Europe, MAXCAP Working Paper No. 26, Maximizing the Integration Capacity of the European Union (MAXCAP), Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin.
• 2016: Nach dem niederländischen Nein: Wie geht es weiter mit dem EU-Ukraine Assoziierungsabkommen?, in: Ukraineanalysen No. 167 (27.04.2016), 8-10.
• co-authored with Bruszt, L. 2015: Development by Stealth: Governing Market Integration in the Eastern Peripheries of the  European Union, MAXCAP Working Paper No. 17, Maximizing the Integration Capacity of the European Union (MAXCAP), Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin.
• co-authored with Bruszt, L./Vukov, V./Bayram, E./Markiewicz, O. 2015: The Developmental Impact of the EU Integration Regime: Insights from the Automotive Industry in Europe’s Peripheries, MAXCAP Working Paper No. 16, Maximizing the Integration Capacity of the European Union (MAXCAP), Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin.
• 2014: Regeltransfer ohne Elitenkonsens? Vorschläge zur Umsetzung des Assoziierungsabkommens mit der Ukraine, in: Ukraineanalysen No. 137 (30.09.2014), 2-3.
• 2013: Die Europäische Nachbarschaftspolitik: "One size fits all" oder differenzierte Strategie?, in: Stratenschulte, E. D. (ed.): Grenzen der Integration: Europas strategische Ansätze für die Nachbarregionen, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 29-53.
• 2012: Achieving Regulatory Convergence in the European Neighbourhood: What’s the Right Toolbox?, in: Börzel, T. A./Böttger, K. (eds): Policy Change in the EU’s Immediate Neighbourhood: A Sectoral Approach, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 77-97.
• 2012: Implementing Deep Free Trade between EU and Ukraine – Time for a new approach, in: IEP Policy Briefs on Enlargement and Neighbourhood 3, Berlin: Institut für Europäische Politik.
• 2011: Solidarität aus Eigennutz und Überzeugung, in: Stratenschulte, E. D. (ed.): Europa kontrovers,Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung.
• 2011: Organizing Regulatory Convergence Outside the EU. Setting Policy-Specific Conditionality and Building Domestic Capacities, in: KFG Working Paper Series 33, March 2011, Kolleg-Forschergruppe “The Transformative Power of Europe”, Berlin: Freie Universität.
• 2010: À la carte – Ukrainische Positionen zum Freihandel mit der EU, in: Osteuropa 2/4, 159-172.
• 2010: Differential Empowerment for Institutional Change – EU Impact on State and Non-State Actors in Eastern Europe, in: Fischer, S./Pleines, H. (eds): Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe, Stuttgart: Ibidem, 103-116.
• 2009: Transnationalization and Change in Economic Institutions: The Case of Ukraine and Industrial Standards Regulations, in: Bruszt, L./Holzhacker, R. (eds): The Transnationalization of States, Economies and Civil Societies. New Modes of Governance in Europe, New York: Springer, 107-133.
• 2009: The EU-Ukraine FTA: Plus or minus?, in: European Focus, Kyiv: International Center for Policy Studies.
• 2008: FTA+ statt Mitgliedschaft? Über ukrainische Interessenlagen und europäische Handlungsspielräume, in: Ukraine-Analyse 44, Forschungsstelle Osteuropa/Universität Bremen.