by Oleksandra Seliverstova, Marie Curie Fellow at the Institute of Political Science and Governance at Tallinn University. The research on the role of consumer culture in the formation of national identities in the post-Soviet Estonia and Ukraine offers a novel and under-theorised approach to national identity studies – via study of consumer culture. It has…
By Maryia Rohava, Marie Curie Fellow, University of Oslo Memories of the Second World War have been central for European societies. Although there are very few people who remember the events of the 1940s, images and stories of the war continue to form European thinking and perceptions. Postwar generations of historians have continuously pointed out…
by Elena Zhirukhina, Marie Curie Fellow at the School of International Relations, University of St Andrews. Intensively growing number of researchers use disaggregated data on a variety of conflict types to study their dynamic. N-large datasets present a tremendous opportunity to closely look on how violence evolves. Disaggregated datasets, while providing details, contain certain aspects…
by Ann Tsurtsumia-Zurabashvili, PhD candidate at the Institute for International Conflict Resolution And Reconstruction, Dublin City University Experts have long argued that the efforts of the Russian Federation to secure international recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia have largely declined after 2012 and nearly disappeared after the annexation of Crimea in 2014. Such circumstances did not appear to…
by Ann Tsurtsumia-Zurabashvil Marie Curie Fellow at the Institute for International Conflict Resolution And Reconstruction, Dublin City University Executive Summary The paper explores the non-recognition policy of the European Union by drawing comparison between the non-recognition policies adopted in support of Georgia (2009) and Ukraine (2014). In 2009, when the EU endorsed the Non-Recognition and Engagement policy towards…
by Giorgio Comai, Marie Curie Fellow at the Institute for International Conflict Resolution And Reconstruction, Dublin City University In spite of their contested nature, de facto states in the post-Soviet space engage in substantive external relations across a number of sectors, well beyond the dominant relationship they have with their patron. In recent years, confidence building programmes…
