Dr. Nadiia Bureiko is the Program Director of Ukraine Abroad at the Foreign Policy Council ‘Ukrainian Prism’ in Kyiv. She is also a research fellow at the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University and at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Central European University.
Previously, she held teaching and research positions at the Centre for European Studies at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi and the Centre for Culture and Governance in Europe at the University of St. Gallen. She completed her post-doctoral research at the University of St. Gallen as a holder of Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship, and at the New Europe College as a holder of Pontica Magna Scholarship.
Dr. Bureiko holds an MA in International Relations and a PhD in Political Science from Yurii Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, Ukraine, where she also worked as an assistant professor in the Department of International Relations.
Her academic and policy research spans numerous international projects funded by the European Commission, the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation, the Research Council of Norway, the International Visegrad Fund, the Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation, and USAID.
Dr. Bureiko has published in leading peer-reviewed journals such as Europe-Asia Studies, Problems of Post-Communism, and Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, and contributed to volumes published by Routledge and Manchester University Press. Her 2019 article on the Ukrainian-Russian linguistic dyad was selected by Europe-Asia Studies for a special collection, highlighting scholarship that has advanced the study of Ukraine over the past three decades.
She is the editor and contributor to numerous policy-oriented publications, including the annual assessment of Ukraine’s foreign policy, a flagship research initiative of Ukrainian Prism. Dr. Bureiko has presented her research at more than 50 international conferences and workshops across 20 countries.
Nadiia Bureiko’s research focuses on three core areas:
- Public diplomacy, country’s image and perceptions abroad
- European integration and Europeanisation in the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood
- National identity and ethnic minorities
Main publications according to the research areas:
Public diplomacy, country’s image and perceptions abroad
- 2023, Testing a Six-Factor Model on Perceived State Power and Influence: the Case of Romania, Europe-Asia Studies
- 2022, Ambitions yet unrealized: Romania’s status and perceptions from the immediate eastern neighbourhood, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies
- 2021, Ukraine’s public diplomacy enters a new phase, New Eastern Europe 4
- 2021, Perceptions of Ukraine abroad: United States of America, Analytical report
- 2021, Perceptions of Ukraine abroad: Japan, Analytical report
- 2021, Constructing Romania’s foreign policy and security role in its eastern neighbourhood: the cases of Moldova and Ukraine, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies 4
2020, Public diplomacy in the Ukrainian context: how ‘terra incognita’ has been mapped
European integration and Europeanisation in the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood
- 2024, Ukraine’s Actorness in Relation to the EU in Times of War: Expert Perceptions and Insights, Analytical report
- 2022, The relevance and impact of the EaP in Moldova: why local perceptions matter? International Politics
- 2021, Building resilience beyond the EU’s eastern borders. EU actorness and societal perceptions in Ukraine and Republic of Moldova, Eastern Journal of European Studies 12
- 2021, Quo Vadis Civil Society in Europe’s Neighbourhoods? Analytical report
- 2020, Romania’s actorness in the immediate eastern neighbourhood (external and internal perceptions)
- 2018, ‘Bounded Europeanisation’: the case of Ukraine, The European Union and Its Eastern Neighbourhood: Europeanisation and its Twenty-First-Century Contradictions, Manchester University Press, 71-85,
- 2018, With/out the EU’s Perspective: Europeanisation Narratives in Ukraine, New Europe College Yearbook, Pontica Magna Program, 2015-2016, 2016-2017
National identity and ethnic minorities
- 2024, Do you feel Ukrainian? Main concerns and self-perceptions of the Romanian minority in Ukraine, European Minorities in Times of Crisis Negotiating Identities, 1st edition, ed. Ruairidh Tarvet, Routledge
- 2021, Between the Home and Kin-State: Self-Identification and Attachment of Ukrainians and Romanians in the Ukrainian-Romanian Borderland of Bukovina, Problems of Post-Communism, 68, 1
- 2021, The Ukrainian–Russian Linguistic Dyad and its Impact on National Identity in Ukraine, The Russian-speaking Populations in the Post-Soviet Space Language, Politics and Identity, 1st edition, eds. Ammon Cheskin, Angela Kachuyevski, Routledge
- 2021, Identificational and Attitudinal Trends in the Ukrainian–Romanian Borderland of Bukovina, Diversity in the East-Central European Borderlands Memories, Cityscapes, People, eds. Eleonora Narvselius and Julie Fedor, ibidem Press
- 2020, Bukovyna as a Contact Zone: analysis of identities, ideas and perceptions at the Ukrainian-Romanian borderland. Analytical materials. Part II.
- 2019, The Ukrainian–Russian Linguistic Dyad and its Impact on National Identity in Ukraine, Europe-Asia Studies, 71(1): 137-155
- 2019, Identificational and Attitudinal Trends in the Ukrainian–Romanian Borderland of Bukovina, Soviet- and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, 5(2)
- 2019, Ethnonational Component of Educational System in Chernivtsi Region. Support for Regional Dialogue in Educational Reform, Analytical report (in Ukrainian),
- 2017, Bukovyna as a Contact Zone: analysis of identities, ideas and perceptions at the Ukrainian-Romanian borderland. Analytical materials’. Part I
