Nadiia Bureiko

 Ukraine Abroad Program Director 

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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:

  1. Public diplomacy, country’s image and perceptions abroad
  2. European integration and Europeanisation in the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood
  3. National identity and ethnic minorities

 

Main publications according to the research areas:

 
Public diplomacy, country’s image and perceptions abroad

2020, Public diplomacy in the Ukrainian context: how ‘terra incognita’ has been mapped

 

European integration and Europeanisation in the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood

 
National identity and ethnic minorities

Recent Publications

“Lowering the Bar? Compliance Negotiations and the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement”

This publication seeks to offer the reader a first-hand insight into how the war has changed professional activities of Ukrainian academics and civil society.

Ukraine’s Actorness in Relation to the EU in Times of War: Expert Perceptions and Insights

6he present paper aims to show how Ukraine’s relationship with the EU generally evolved and how Ukraine has strengthened its efforts towards European integration since the onset of the full-scale war.

Ukraine’s public diplomacy enters a new phase

A new milestone in Ukraine’s public diplomacy began in late March when the foreign ministry approved, for the first time in history, a public diplomacy strategy.