Maryna Rabinovych
Biographic Data
| ID | 4096769 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maryna Rabinovych |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maryna |
| FAMILY NAME | Rabinovych |
| SIGNATURE | RABINOVYCH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Agder |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6038-2472 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The “Ghost of Minsk” in the Discursive Framing of a Negotiated Outcome to the Full-Scale Russia–Ukraine War (2022–August 2025)
The article examines how the legacy of the Minsk Peace Process (MPP) (2014–22) has been invoked in official and expert discourses in Ukraine, Russia, France, and Germany, as well as in the official discourse of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), in debates on peace negotiations and settlement options during the first three and a half years of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine. It shows that, notwithstanding dif…
Multipler Druck: Ukrainische Hochschulen und Wissenschaft im Krieg. Ukrainian Universities and Science at War
Navigating turbulence: Adaptive local governance responses to the consequences of Russia’s war against Ukraine in the Norwegian Arctic
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine profoundly disrupted Arctic governance, challenging the long-standing notion of Arctic exceptionalism and creating enduring turbulence. While scholarly debate has largely focused on geopolitical and institutional consequences, the local-level impacts remain underexamined. This study investigates adaptive governance (AG) responses to the war’s effects in Norway’s northernmost counties, Troms and Finnmark, wh…
Eastern enlargement 2.0? EU enlargement discourses in the European Parliament before and after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine
Ukrainian decentralization under martial law: Challenges for Regional and Local Self-Governance
Wartime super-spillover? The perils and limits of a neofunctionalist approach to Ukraine’s single market integration
EU Enlargement Policy Goes East: Historical and Comparative Takes on the EU’s Rule of Law Conditionality vis-à-vis Ukraine
The article discusses a unique case of the EU’s application of rule of law conditionality vis-à-vis Ukraine, while the latter is in active war with Russia. It is demonstrated that the EU utilized momentum, created by the confluence of the invasion and Ukraine’s EU candidateship, to apply ambitious rule of law conditionality in its relations with Ukraine. Despite the unique strategic and political context, the conditionality is path-dependent, str…
From the 2014 Annexation of Crimea to the 2022 Russian War on Ukraine: Path Dependence and Socialization in the EU–Ukraine Relations
Decisions the EU took in response to Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine have been assessed in scholarship as ‘unprecedented’ and ‘unthinkable before’. The Union's response to the 2022 full‐scale invasion has thus been much stronger than the one linked to the annexation of Crimea in 2014. The difference between the 2014 and 2022 responses can be attributed to many factors, particularly differences in the nature and scale of Russia's attacks and the…
EU external differentiated integration as a crisis response tool? Evidence from Ukraine
Political conditionality as an EU foreign policy and crisis management tool. The case of EU wartime political conditionality vis-à-vis Ukraine
Explaining Ukraine's resilience to Russia's invasion: The role of local governance
Resilience of local communities (territorial hromadas) is an increasingly salient matter in the academic and policy debate on the factors which have determined Ukraine's resilience to Russia's 2022 invasion. Building on existing literature on institutional resilience and its predictors, this article explains the ability of Ukrainian self‐governed municipalities to withstand the threats to institutional stability stemming from the invasion. First,…
Predicting budget robustness of Ukrainian local self-government during Russia’s war against Ukraine
Sustainable Development: A Common Denominator for the EU’s Policy Towards the Eastern Partnership
The heterogeneity of the Eastern Partnership countries’ cultures, political regimes and foreign policy aspirations has been a challenge to the EU’s formulation of a coherent umbrella policy towards the region since the 2004 enlargement. Document analysis with a focus on region-level documents and the cases of Ukraine and Azerbaijan demonstrates the EU’s tendency to shift from an emphasis on European integration and common values to the sustainabl…
The Eastern Partnership initiative: Challenges of assessing performance and new geopolitical realities
The Conflict in Eastern Ukraine and International Support for the Decentralization Reform (2014–2022): Theory-Guided Observations
This article explores Western donors’ support for the decentralization reform in post-Euromaidan Ukraine prior to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, with a focus on the relationship between decentralization and conflict management. It demonstrates that, despite the protracted conflict in eastern Ukraine, bilateral donors have preferred to address Ukraine’s decentralization from the governance reform perspective, rather t…
Striving for trade not peace? Revisiting trade-peace and trade-security nexuses in the EU’s trade policy strategy amidst the Russia-Ukraine war
This article dismantles the popular myth that the strategic framing of the EU’s trade with Russia following the 2014 ‘Ukraine crisis’ was nurtured by the liberal peace logic, and the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine should be thus seen as an ultimate failure of a ‘liberal peace’ hypothesis. To challenge this argument, we provide a nuanced conceptualization of the trade-peace and trade-security nexuses in EU trade policy and apply it to the case o…
Compliance negotiations in EU external relations: The case of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement
The article advances the research on compliance negotiations in the context of the EU’s external relations. It develops further the framework on EU compliance negotiations, introduced by Jönsson and Tallberg in 1998, and provides empirical evidence from a case study on the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement’s implementation. The article suggests three arguments for the expansion of the original framework. Firstly, we add to the framework the case o…
Explaining Non‐compliance in the EU Differentiated Integration: The Case of Transport and Infrastructure Obligations under the EU‐Ukraine Association Agreement
External differentiated integration constellations, such as the EU Association Agreements (AAs) with Eastern Neighbours, require third states to conduct extensive regulatory approximation with EU rules. Nevertheless, compliance in EU external differentiation remains under‐researched. In this vein, the article explains (non)‐compliance in EU external differentiated integration through the prism of an integrated approach to compliance that brings t…
Informal compliance mechanisms in the EU ‘development’ and ‘integration without membership’ association agreements: A quest for capacity and ownership
Association Agreements between the EU and third countries lie at the heart of the EU’s foreign policy. The Association Agreements the EU concluded with Eastern Neighbours and the Caribbean Forum and Central American countries are marked with partner countries’ ambitious obligations, and the multi-instrument toolbox the EU applies to ensure partner countries’ compliance, including official consultations and dispute settlement. Nevertheless, the EU…
EU-Ukraine “deep” trade agenda: The effectiveness and impact perspectives
Failing forward and EU foreign policy: The dynamics of ‘integration without membership’ in the Eastern Neighbourhood
The article aims to investigate the applicability of the 'failing forward' framework to the case of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP). The 'failing forward' framework explains how the liberal intergovernmentalist and neo-functionalist developments shape policy dynamics in the ENP. It is, however, proven to be challenging to determine the initial policy incompleteness and, due to the influence of exogenous factors, also explain the origins o…
The Rule of Law as Non-trade Policy Objective in EU Preferential Trade Agreements with Developing Countries
The Legal Status and Effects of the Agenda 2030 within the EU Legal Order
This article explores the legal status and effects of the Agenda 2030 within the EU legal order. It refers to different forms of international law (i.e. international treaty law, international customary law and international soft law) as a ‘connective tissue’ between the EU legal order and the Agenda 2030. It is found that, despite the EU’s commitment ‘to be a frontrunner in the implementation of the Agenda 2030’, its legal status in the EU law i…
Paradigmatic change” with much continuity? EU's approach to values in external policies in the age of contestation
This contribution aims to compare and contrast the evolution of “EU shared values” debate in the EU's external policy over the period from 2015 to 2018. In this introductory comment, we look at how the “values vs interests” dilemma plays out in recent EU's strategic documents such as the European Global Strategy, as well as at the state of debate in mass media, academia and civil society. We ask: Is the EU's external action becoming more normativ…
EU's development policy vis-à-vis Ukraine after the Euromaidan: Securitisation, State-Building and Integration
This article focuses on key trends in EU development policy regarding post-Euromaidan Ukraine against the background of the EU's commitment to the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The trends considered include comprehensiveness of the policy response, stronger coordination and coherence, security-development nexus, and policy securitisation, as well as values in development policy. This article touches upon the inter…
From the 2014 Annexation of Crimea to the 2022 Russian War on Ukraine: Path Dependence and Socialization in the EU–Ukraine Relations
Decisions the EU took in response to Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine have been assessed in scholarship as ‘unprecedented’ and ‘unthinkable before’. The Union's response to the 2022 full‐scale invasion has thus been much stronger than the one linked to the annexation of Crimea in 2014. The difference between the 2014 and 2022 responses can be attributed to many factors, particularly differences in the nature and scale of Russia's attacks and the…
Explaining Ukraine's resilience to Russia's invasion: The role of local governance
Resilience of local communities (territorial hromadas) is an increasingly salient matter in the academic and policy debate on the factors which have determined Ukraine's resilience to Russia's 2022 invasion. Building on existing literature on institutional resilience and its predictors, this article explains the ability of Ukrainian self‐governed municipalities to withstand the threats to institutional stability stemming from the invasion. First,…
External governance as security community building: The limits and potential of the European Neighbourhood Policy
This book, edited by Pernille Rieker, is dedicated to investigating the limits and potential of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), in light of the terrifying security trends in Ukraine, Syria and Libya. A sad ENP-related paradox is that, following the application of this stability-oriented policy, the region has experienced ever toughening security- and stability-related challenges. The contributors to this edited volume seek to understand …
Political conditionality as an EU foreign policy and crisis management tool. The case of EU wartime political conditionality vis-à-vis Ukraine
Failing forward and EU foreign policy: The dynamics of ‘integration without membership’ in the Eastern Neighbourhood
The article aims to investigate the applicability of the 'failing forward' framework to the case of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP). The 'failing forward' framework explains how the liberal intergovernmentalist and neo-functionalist developments shape policy dynamics in the ENP. It is, however, proven to be challenging to determine the initial policy incompleteness and, due to the influence of exogenous factors, also explain the origins o…
EU external differentiated integration as a crisis response tool? Evidence from Ukraine
Predicting budget robustness of Ukrainian local self-government during Russia’s war against Ukraine
Explaining Non‐compliance in the EU Differentiated Integration: The Case of Transport and Infrastructure Obligations under the EU‐Ukraine Association Agreement
External differentiated integration constellations, such as the EU Association Agreements (AAs) with Eastern Neighbours, require third states to conduct extensive regulatory approximation with EU rules. Nevertheless, compliance in EU external differentiation remains under‐researched. In this vein, the article explains (non)‐compliance in EU external differentiated integration through the prism of an integrated approach to compliance that brings t…
Eastern enlargement 2.0? EU enlargement discourses in the European Parliament before and after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine
Wartime super-spillover? The perils and limits of a neofunctionalist approach to Ukraine’s single market integration
Striving for trade not peace? Revisiting trade-peace and trade-security nexuses in the EU’s trade policy strategy amidst the Russia-Ukraine war
This article dismantles the popular myth that the strategic framing of the EU’s trade with Russia following the 2014 ‘Ukraine crisis’ was nurtured by the liberal peace logic, and the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine should be thus seen as an ultimate failure of a ‘liberal peace’ hypothesis. To challenge this argument, we provide a nuanced conceptualization of the trade-peace and trade-security nexuses in EU trade policy and apply it to the case o…
EU's development policy vis-à-vis Ukraine after the Euromaidan: Securitisation, State-Building and Integration
This article focuses on key trends in EU development policy regarding post-Euromaidan Ukraine against the background of the EU's commitment to the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The trends considered include comprehensiveness of the policy response, stronger coordination and coherence, security-development nexus, and policy securitisation, as well as values in development policy. This article touches upon the inter…
Ukrainian decentralization under martial law: Challenges for Regional and Local Self-Governance
The Conflict in Eastern Ukraine and International Support for the Decentralization Reform (2014–2022): Theory-Guided Observations
This article explores Western donors’ support for the decentralization reform in post-Euromaidan Ukraine prior to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, with a focus on the relationship between decentralization and conflict management. It demonstrates that, despite the protracted conflict in eastern Ukraine, bilateral donors have preferred to address Ukraine’s decentralization from the governance reform perspective, rather t…
EU-Ukraine “deep” trade agenda: The effectiveness and impact perspectives
Paradigmatic change” with much continuity? EU's approach to values in external policies in the age of contestation
This contribution aims to compare and contrast the evolution of “EU shared values” debate in the EU's external policy over the period from 2015 to 2018. In this introductory comment, we look at how the “values vs interests” dilemma plays out in recent EU's strategic documents such as the European Global Strategy, as well as at the state of debate in mass media, academia and civil society. We ask: Is the EU's external action becoming more normativ…
External governance as security community building: The limits and potential of the European Neighbourhood Policy
This book, edited by Pernille Rieker, is dedicated to investigating the limits and potential of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), in light of the terrifying security trends in Ukraine, Syria and Libya. A sad ENP-related paradox is that, following the application of this stability-oriented policy, the region has experienced ever toughening security- and stability-related challenges. The contributors to this edited volume seek to understand …
Paradigmatic change” with much continuity? EU's approach to values in external policies in the age of contestation
This contribution aims to compare and contrast the evolution of “EU shared values” debate in the EU's external policy over the period from 2015 to 2018. In this introductory comment, we look at how the “values vs interests” dilemma plays out in recent EU's strategic documents such as the European Global Strategy, as well as at the state of debate in mass media, academia and civil society. We ask: Is the EU's external action becoming more normativ…
EU's development policy vis-à-vis Ukraine after the Euromaidan: Securitisation, State-Building and Integration
This article focuses on key trends in EU development policy regarding post-Euromaidan Ukraine against the background of the EU's commitment to the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The trends considered include comprehensiveness of the policy response, stronger coordination and coherence, security-development nexus, and policy securitisation, as well as values in development policy. This article touches upon the inter…
Five years after: The role of international actors in the “Ukraine Crisis
Five years after the annexation of Crimea and the outbreak of violent conflict in the eastern regions of Ukraine – often addressed as “Ukraine Crisis”1 – it is time for evaluating the past and anal
The Rule of Law as Non-trade Policy Objective in EU Preferential Trade Agreements with Developing Countries
The Legal Status and Effects of the Agenda 2030 within the EU Legal Order
This article explores the legal status and effects of the Agenda 2030 within the EU legal order. It refers to different forms of international law (i.e. international treaty law, international customary law and international soft law) as a ‘connective tissue’ between the EU legal order and the Agenda 2030. It is found that, despite the EU’s commitment ‘to be a frontrunner in the implementation of the Agenda 2030’, its legal status in the EU law i…
Failing forward and EU foreign policy: The dynamics of ‘integration without membership’ in the Eastern Neighbourhood
The article aims to investigate the applicability of the 'failing forward' framework to the case of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP). The 'failing forward' framework explains how the liberal intergovernmentalist and neo-functionalist developments shape policy dynamics in the ENP. It is, however, proven to be challenging to determine the initial policy incompleteness and, due to the influence of exogenous factors, also explain the origins o…
Informal compliance mechanisms in the EU ‘development’ and ‘integration without membership’ association agreements: A quest for capacity and ownership
Association Agreements between the EU and third countries lie at the heart of the EU’s foreign policy. The Association Agreements the EU concluded with Eastern Neighbours and the Caribbean Forum and Central American countries are marked with partner countries’ ambitious obligations, and the multi-instrument toolbox the EU applies to ensure partner countries’ compliance, including official consultations and dispute settlement. Nevertheless, the EU…
EU-Ukraine “deep” trade agenda: The effectiveness and impact perspectives
Sustainable Development: A Common Denominator for the EU’s Policy Towards the Eastern Partnership
The heterogeneity of the Eastern Partnership countries’ cultures, political regimes and foreign policy aspirations has been a challenge to the EU’s formulation of a coherent umbrella policy towards the region since the 2004 enlargement. Document analysis with a focus on region-level documents and the cases of Ukraine and Azerbaijan demonstrates the EU’s tendency to shift from an emphasis on European integration and common values to the sustainabl…
The Eastern Partnership initiative: Challenges of assessing performance and new geopolitical realities
The Conflict in Eastern Ukraine and International Support for the Decentralization Reform (2014–2022): Theory-Guided Observations
This article explores Western donors’ support for the decentralization reform in post-Euromaidan Ukraine prior to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, with a focus on the relationship between decentralization and conflict management. It demonstrates that, despite the protracted conflict in eastern Ukraine, bilateral donors have preferred to address Ukraine’s decentralization from the governance reform perspective, rather t…
Striving for trade not peace? Revisiting trade-peace and trade-security nexuses in the EU’s trade policy strategy amidst the Russia-Ukraine war
This article dismantles the popular myth that the strategic framing of the EU’s trade with Russia following the 2014 ‘Ukraine crisis’ was nurtured by the liberal peace logic, and the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine should be thus seen as an ultimate failure of a ‘liberal peace’ hypothesis. To challenge this argument, we provide a nuanced conceptualization of the trade-peace and trade-security nexuses in EU trade policy and apply it to the case o…
Compliance negotiations in EU external relations: The case of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement
The article advances the research on compliance negotiations in the context of the EU’s external relations. It develops further the framework on EU compliance negotiations, introduced by Jönsson and Tallberg in 1998, and provides empirical evidence from a case study on the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement’s implementation. The article suggests three arguments for the expansion of the original framework. Firstly, we add to the framework the case o…
Explaining Non‐compliance in the EU Differentiated Integration: The Case of Transport and Infrastructure Obligations under the EU‐Ukraine Association Agreement
External differentiated integration constellations, such as the EU Association Agreements (AAs) with Eastern Neighbours, require third states to conduct extensive regulatory approximation with EU rules. Nevertheless, compliance in EU external differentiation remains under‐researched. In this vein, the article explains (non)‐compliance in EU external differentiated integration through the prism of an integrated approach to compliance that brings t…
EU Enlargement Policy Goes East: Historical and Comparative Takes on the EU’s Rule of Law Conditionality vis-à-vis Ukraine
The article discusses a unique case of the EU’s application of rule of law conditionality vis-à-vis Ukraine, while the latter is in active war with Russia. It is demonstrated that the EU utilized momentum, created by the confluence of the invasion and Ukraine’s EU candidateship, to apply ambitious rule of law conditionality in its relations with Ukraine. Despite the unique strategic and political context, the conditionality is path-dependent, str…
From the 2014 Annexation of Crimea to the 2022 Russian War on Ukraine: Path Dependence and Socialization in the EU–Ukraine Relations
Decisions the EU took in response to Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine have been assessed in scholarship as ‘unprecedented’ and ‘unthinkable before’. The Union's response to the 2022 full‐scale invasion has thus been much stronger than the one linked to the annexation of Crimea in 2014. The difference between the 2014 and 2022 responses can be attributed to many factors, particularly differences in the nature and scale of Russia's attacks and the…
EU external differentiated integration as a crisis response tool? Evidence from Ukraine
Political conditionality as an EU foreign policy and crisis management tool. The case of EU wartime political conditionality vis-à-vis Ukraine
Explaining Ukraine's resilience to Russia's invasion: The role of local governance
Resilience of local communities (territorial hromadas) is an increasingly salient matter in the academic and policy debate on the factors which have determined Ukraine's resilience to Russia's 2022 invasion. Building on existing literature on institutional resilience and its predictors, this article explains the ability of Ukrainian self‐governed municipalities to withstand the threats to institutional stability stemming from the invasion. First,…
Predicting budget robustness of Ukrainian local self-government during Russia’s war against Ukraine
Multipler Druck: Ukrainische Hochschulen und Wissenschaft im Krieg. Ukrainian Universities and Science at War
Navigating turbulence: Adaptive local governance responses to the consequences of Russia’s war against Ukraine in the Norwegian Arctic
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine profoundly disrupted Arctic governance, challenging the long-standing notion of Arctic exceptionalism and creating enduring turbulence. While scholarly debate has largely focused on geopolitical and institutional consequences, the local-level impacts remain underexamined. This study investigates adaptive governance (AG) responses to the war’s effects in Norway’s northernmost counties, Troms and Finnmark, wh…
Eastern enlargement 2.0? EU enlargement discourses in the European Parliament before and after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine
Ukrainian decentralization under martial law: Challenges for Regional and Local Self-Governance
Political science (24 works) · Economics (18 works) · Law (18 works) · Law (16 works) · Political economy (15 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (14 works) · International trade (14 works) · Politics (14 works) · Sociology (12 works) · European union (9 works)