Did you know that the newest issues of European Foreign Affairs Review are available online via Kluwer Law Online?
In the latest issue you can find an article by our’s Senior Research Fellow Dr Andriy Tyushka titled: “The EU’s Shifting Engagement in War-Torn Ukraine throughout 2014-2024”.
Andriy Tyushka, The EU’s Shifting Engagement in War-Torn Ukraine Throughout 2014–2024, European Foreign Affairs Review, Volume 30, Issue 3 (2025) pp. 425 – 452
Abstract:
Throughout the past decade, the European Union (EU) has become a more assertive, geopolitically-minded and capacitated security actor within and beyond the Ukrainian context. This article aims to develop a conceptually informed account of the EU’s shift in actorness in conflict and crisis situations across its neighbourhood, probing into legal, political and performative aspects of the rationale and forms of such an engagement.
First, the article develops a conceptualization of the EU’s capacity to act in conflict and crisis management, considering both the EU’s values, (strategic) interests and (policy) objectives as constitutional and political imperatives to act. Then, it follows a goal-oriented framework (GOF) for policy analysis in order to unpack the EU’s capacity to act, and assess its effectiveness, in the empirical context of Ukraine’s cascading ‘crisis’ developments – from 2013/14 domestic revolution to Russia’s hybrid incursion in Ukraine’s south-east up to the ongoing Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Thereby, the EU’s performance is assessed across the dimensions of what is deemed a coherent, sustainable and effective external action, with an eye on goal-attainment and lesson-learning.