Irina Petrova
Biographic Data
| ID | 4382227 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Irina Petrova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Irina |
| FAMILY NAME | Petrova |
| SIGNATURE | PETROVA I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9021-8617 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Re-Evaluating the EU's Engagement with its Eastern Neighbourhood: A Relationality Perspective
The call to re-evaluate the EU’s foreign policy engagement from the perspective of relationality is becoming commonplace. However, we still lack conceptual clarity on the notions of relation(s) and relationality. This article argues that to better understand relationality in International Relations and EU studies, we should conceptually differentiate between the two frames of reference – the conceptualisation of relationality grounded in positivi…
Belarus in the Twenty-First Century: Between Dictatorship and Democracy
A.K. Vydrin’s Memoirs as a Source on the History of the Civil War
Introduction. The relevance of the study is due to the need for an objective study of events related to the history of the civil war. The study of archival sources by the Tsaritsyn (since 1925 – Stalingrad) Commission for the collection and processing of materials on the history of the October Revolution and the Civil War (histparty) will expand the documentary base for researchers on this topic. The purpose of the article is to conduct a source …
Power, People, and the Political: Understanding the Many Crises in Belarus
The many recent crises in Belarus are often seen through the prism of democratization, post-communist transition, and nation- and identity-building. As a rule, it is put into the context of the 1989 democratization in Central and Eastern Europe and compared with similar societal mobilization in Georgia (2003), Ukraine (2004; 2014), and Kyrgyzstan (2005). This article, however, argues that while these theoretical approaches provide an important ex…
Belarus in the Twenty-First Century
What makes communities resilient in times of complexity and change
This introduction to the Special Issue problematises the necessity to rethink governance through the lens of resilience and suggests a novel conceptualisation of resilience. Building the argument on complexity-thinking, this issue contends that in the context of change and complex life, challenges are most efficiently dealt with, at the source, ‘locally’, to make ‘the global’ more sustainable. Accordingly, the concept of resilience as self-govern…
Community Resilience in Belarus and the EU response
The presidential election held on 9 August 2020 and the subsequent popular mobilization marked the end of an era in the history of post-Soviet Belarus. Cautious and apolitical for three decades, Belarusian society seems to have awakened (Petrova and Korosteleva, 2021), in a short space of time observing a profound transformation of state-society relations taking them to a qualitatively new level of self-awareness and self-organisation. This artic…
Societal fragilities and resilience: The emergence of peoplehood in Belarus
The article examines societal fragilities and local resilience strategies in Belarus with a particular focus on the notion of peoplehood. Premised on the idea of evolving forms of agency under the Anthropocene, and the emergent complexity-thinking in International Relations, the article draws on these approaches to societal fragilities and community resilience to understand and explain the unprecedented levels of mobilization occurring in Belarus…
From ‘the global’ to ‘the local’: The future of ‘cooperative orders’ in Central Eurasia in times of complexity
Living in times of increasing complexity is hard; it becomes even harder with the realisation of diminishing control. How do we adapt our governance to this complexity to ensure peaceful cohabitation of the established and emergent order regimes? This paper contends that it is important to embrace complexity in full, conceptually and practically, by shifting from 'the global' to 'the local', to understand the pressure of transformational change a…
From principle to practice? The resilience–local ownership nexus in the EU Eastern Partnership policy
By emphasizing concepts such as resilience and local ownership, recent updates in the EU's foreign policy strategy have marked a narrative turn and signaled a shift in EU external governance toward its neighborhood. This article has two aims. First, we unpack the EU's conceptual understanding of resilience and local ownership as reflected in its recent strategic documents. Second, we examine the implications of the EU's narrative turn on actual p…
On both sides: The gender dimension of social service of religious organizations
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From principle to practice? The resilience–local ownership nexus in the EU Eastern Partnership policy
By emphasizing concepts such as resilience and local ownership, recent updates in the EU's foreign policy strategy have marked a narrative turn and signaled a shift in EU external governance toward its neighborhood. This article has two aims. First, we unpack the EU's conceptual understanding of resilience and local ownership as reflected in its recent strategic documents. Second, we examine the implications of the EU's narrative turn on actual p…
What makes communities resilient in times of complexity and change
This introduction to the Special Issue problematises the necessity to rethink governance through the lens of resilience and suggests a novel conceptualisation of resilience. Building the argument on complexity-thinking, this issue contends that in the context of change and complex life, challenges are most efficiently dealt with, at the source, ‘locally’, to make ‘the global’ more sustainable. Accordingly, the concept of resilience as self-govern…
Societal fragilities and resilience: The emergence of peoplehood in Belarus
The article examines societal fragilities and local resilience strategies in Belarus with a particular focus on the notion of peoplehood. Premised on the idea of evolving forms of agency under the Anthropocene, and the emergent complexity-thinking in International Relations, the article draws on these approaches to societal fragilities and community resilience to understand and explain the unprecedented levels of mobilization occurring in Belarus…
Community Resilience in Belarus and the EU response
The presidential election held on 9 August 2020 and the subsequent popular mobilization marked the end of an era in the history of post-Soviet Belarus. Cautious and apolitical for three decades, Belarusian society seems to have awakened (Petrova and Korosteleva, 2021), in a short space of time observing a profound transformation of state-society relations taking them to a qualitatively new level of self-awareness and self-organisation. This artic…
Power, People, and the Political: Understanding the Many Crises in Belarus
The many recent crises in Belarus are often seen through the prism of democratization, post-communist transition, and nation- and identity-building. As a rule, it is put into the context of the 1989 democratization in Central and Eastern Europe and compared with similar societal mobilization in Georgia (2003), Ukraine (2004; 2014), and Kyrgyzstan (2005). This article, however, argues that while these theoretical approaches provide an important ex…
Re-Evaluating the EU's Engagement with its Eastern Neighbourhood: A Relationality Perspective
The call to re-evaluate the EU’s foreign policy engagement from the perspective of relationality is becoming commonplace. However, we still lack conceptual clarity on the notions of relation(s) and relationality. This article argues that to better understand relationality in International Relations and EU studies, we should conceptually differentiate between the two frames of reference – the conceptualisation of relationality grounded in positivi…
From ‘the global’ to ‘the local’: The future of ‘cooperative orders’ in Central Eurasia in times of complexity
Living in times of increasing complexity is hard; it becomes even harder with the realisation of diminishing control. How do we adapt our governance to this complexity to ensure peaceful cohabitation of the established and emergent order regimes? This paper contends that it is important to embrace complexity in full, conceptually and practically, by shifting from 'the global' to 'the local', to understand the pressure of transformational change a…
On both sides: The gender dimension of social service of religious organizations
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From principle to practice? The resilience–local ownership nexus in the EU Eastern Partnership policy
By emphasizing concepts such as resilience and local ownership, recent updates in the EU's foreign policy strategy have marked a narrative turn and signaled a shift in EU external governance toward its neighborhood. This article has two aims. First, we unpack the EU's conceptual understanding of resilience and local ownership as reflected in its recent strategic documents. Second, we examine the implications of the EU's narrative turn on actual p…
From ‘the global’ to ‘the local’: The future of ‘cooperative orders’ in Central Eurasia in times of complexity
Living in times of increasing complexity is hard; it becomes even harder with the realisation of diminishing control. How do we adapt our governance to this complexity to ensure peaceful cohabitation of the established and emergent order regimes? This paper contends that it is important to embrace complexity in full, conceptually and practically, by shifting from 'the global' to 'the local', to understand the pressure of transformational change a…
Community Resilience in Belarus and the EU response
The presidential election held on 9 August 2020 and the subsequent popular mobilization marked the end of an era in the history of post-Soviet Belarus. Cautious and apolitical for three decades, Belarusian society seems to have awakened (Petrova and Korosteleva, 2021), in a short space of time observing a profound transformation of state-society relations taking them to a qualitatively new level of self-awareness and self-organisation. This artic…
Societal fragilities and resilience: The emergence of peoplehood in Belarus
The article examines societal fragilities and local resilience strategies in Belarus with a particular focus on the notion of peoplehood. Premised on the idea of evolving forms of agency under the Anthropocene, and the emergent complexity-thinking in International Relations, the article draws on these approaches to societal fragilities and community resilience to understand and explain the unprecedented levels of mobilization occurring in Belarus…
What makes communities resilient in times of complexity and change
This introduction to the Special Issue problematises the necessity to rethink governance through the lens of resilience and suggests a novel conceptualisation of resilience. Building the argument on complexity-thinking, this issue contends that in the context of change and complex life, challenges are most efficiently dealt with, at the source, ‘locally’, to make ‘the global’ more sustainable. Accordingly, the concept of resilience as self-govern…
Belarus in the Twenty-First Century: Between Dictatorship and Democracy
A.K. Vydrin’s Memoirs as a Source on the History of the Civil War
Introduction. The relevance of the study is due to the need for an objective study of events related to the history of the civil war. The study of archival sources by the Tsaritsyn (since 1925 – Stalingrad) Commission for the collection and processing of materials on the history of the October Revolution and the Civil War (histparty) will expand the documentary base for researchers on this topic. The purpose of the article is to conduct a source …
Power, People, and the Political: Understanding the Many Crises in Belarus
The many recent crises in Belarus are often seen through the prism of democratization, post-communist transition, and nation- and identity-building. As a rule, it is put into the context of the 1989 democratization in Central and Eastern Europe and compared with similar societal mobilization in Georgia (2003), Ukraine (2004; 2014), and Kyrgyzstan (2005). This article, however, argues that while these theoretical approaches provide an important ex…
Belarus in the Twenty-First Century
Re-Evaluating the EU's Engagement with its Eastern Neighbourhood: A Relationality Perspective
The call to re-evaluate the EU’s foreign policy engagement from the perspective of relationality is becoming commonplace. However, we still lack conceptual clarity on the notions of relation(s) and relationality. This article argues that to better understand relationality in International Relations and EU studies, we should conceptually differentiate between the two frames of reference – the conceptualisation of relationality grounded in positivi…
Political science (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Politics (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works)