Policy Exchange Discussion: Guaranteeing Ukraine's Long-Run Security

Drawing on PONARS Eurasia's worldwide network of experts, the Policy Exchange series offers interactive discussions that bring a diversity of informed views to tough questions. For this first event, six experts discuss the following forward-looking question that is likely to be central to regional security for the long-term:

Regardless of how the war ends, how can Ukraine’s long-run security realistically be guaranteed?
Thursday, June 9th, 2022
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Join the Zoom Meeting here.
This event is on the record, open to the public, and will be recorded.
Speakers:
Petro Burkovskyi is a Senior Fellow at the Democratic Initiatives Foundation (DIF), a leading Ukrainian analytical and sociological think tank. He has supervised DIF analytical activities since October 2017. Before joining DIF he worked held various roles at the National Institute for Strategic Studies. His areas of expertise are history, comparative analysis, constitutional law, decision making process, security policy, energy policy, international relations.
Olexiy Haran is a professor of Comparative Politics at the National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy (UKMA). He also serves as Founding Director of the UKMA School for Policy Analysis and Research Director at the Democratic Initiatives Foundation (DIF). He has co-authored several books, including Constructing a Political Nation: Changes in the Attitudes of Ukrainians during the War in the Donbas, Ukraine in Europe: Questions and Answers, and Russia and Ukraine: Ten Years of Transformation.
Mariya Y. Omelicheva is a Professor of Strategy at National War College. Her research and teaching interests include international and Eurasian security, counterterrorism and human rights, democracy promotion in the post-Soviet territory, Russia's foreign and security policy, gender and security, and crime-terror nexus in Eurasia. Over the course of her work she has authored three books and over a hundred peer-reviewed articles.
Maria Popova is Jean Monnet Chair and Associate Professor of Political Science at McGill University in Montreal. Her work explores the intersection of politics and law in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, specifically the rule of law, judicial reform, political corruption, populist parties, and legal repression of dissent. Her book, Politicized Justice in Emerging Democracies (Cambridge UP, 2012), won the American Association for Ukrainian Studies prize for best book in the fields of Ukrainian history, politics, language, literature and culture.
Oxana Shevel is Associate Professor of Political Science at Tufts University. She focuses on the post-Communist region surrounding Russia, and issues such as nation- and state-building, the politics of citizenship and migration, memory and religious politics, and challenges to democratization in the post-Soviet region. She is the author of Migration, Refugee Policy, and State Building in Post-communist Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
Paul D’Anieri is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of California - Riverside. He studies politics in the former Soviet Union, focusing on Ukraine and on Ukraine-Russia relations. He also teaches and studies economics and budgeting in universities, based on his experience as an administrator at UCR, the University of Florida, and the University of Kansas.
PONARS Eurasia is an international network of scholars advancing new approaches to research on security, politics, economics, and society in Russia and Eurasia. The program is based at the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at the George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs. PONARS Eurasia is supported in part by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York.