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Professor has published a new book on the Ukraine conflict, titled 'Europe's Eastern Crisis: The Geopolitics of Asymmetry.'

In recent years, a series of crises have erupted on the European Union’s eastern borders. Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the subsequent conflict in eastern Ukraine presented the EU with a major foreign policy challenge, both in Ukraine and across the other countries of the Eastern Partnership. In response, the EU has begun to map its own form of “liberal-redux geopolitics” that combines various strategic logics. This book traces the effect of these crises on the foreign policy of the EU, examining the changes in policies toward the countries on its eastern borders, the EU’s review of the Eastern Partnership, as well as the EU’s relations with Russia overall. It goes on to uncover whether the EU has contained the crisis or if it has set up new conditions for more instability in the future.

Reviews for this publication

“Richard Youngs’s new account of the complex geopolitical context in the Eastern Partnership region provides a nuanced, sophisticated, and empirically rich study that is invaluable in taking into account the opinions of diplomats, policymakers, and civil society in the EaP states themselves.”
—Eka Tkeshelashvili, head of EU Anti-Corruption Initiative in Ukraine, former Georgian foreign minister, and president of the Georgian Institute for Strategic Studies

“Ukraine and other states between these two ‘empires’ feel the heat again, and Richard Youngs’s book expertly maps a complex mosaic of power, ambition, and brinkmanship. Youngs’s engaging and balanced analysis is indispensable reading for everyone trying to comprehend the ongoing geopolitical turn and the evolution of the EU’s foreign and security policy.”
—Jan Zielonka, professor of European Politics, University of Oxford

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Dr. 's article "Sustained vs. Episodic Mobilization among Conflict-generated Diasporas" International Political Science Review 37(44): 500-516, has been selected by the editors of the IPSR journal for their Choice Collection on the topic of "Borders and Margins" in view of the forthcoming World Congress of the International Political Science Association in July 2018 in Brisbane, Australia.

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Juanita Elias and Shirin Rai have published a piece in The Conversation that considers how the £2 bn made available in the Spring budget for adult social care might be spent.

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This article draws upon research conducted by the PSA Commission on Care which reported in November 2016. Full details of the Commisions work can be found at

Dr. Maria Koinova will this week speak at a high profile policy event on “Global Diaspora Mobilization” at the 果冻传媒 Brussels Office.

The global refugee crisis brings pressing concerns how to manage refugees on the move and deal with fragile sending states in conflict and disarray. While such concerns take the limelight, long-term effects of refugee and large-scale migration movements remain in the shadow. Over time refugees may return home, but many will remain in their new destinations, or move on to others, and eventually turn into conflict-generated diasporas with durable links to their original homelands. ​

Conflict-generated diasporas can be a source of economic development, but also of further conflict from afar, and engage in a variety of long-distance practices. Lessons learned from experiences of previous refugee waves, their diaspora engagement, and the management of large-scale migration, including fragile and developing states, can inform meaningful policies towards refugees and migrants today.

The seminar seeks to enhance the conversation between academics and policy-makers in European institutions by focusing on lessons learned from diaspora mobilisations and their management, and to bring their implications for policy areas such as: conflict and security, state-building, economic and social development, migration governance, transitional justice and democratisation.

The event will also highlight the links between the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and human mobility that needs to be understood more comprehensively to support and leverage different types of diaspora populations and link integration policies in countries of settlement with the transnational activities of mobile populations.

The event, takes place on Tuesday 28th March. For more details, and to register, please see:

This week the Hallsworth Conference on China and the Changing Global Order was held in Manchester on Thursday 23rd and Friday 24th March. Organized by Catherine Jones, André Broome, Matthias Kranke, and Pablo Rodríguez-Merino from PAIS in collaboration with Shogo Suzuki from the School of Social Sciences at the University of Manchester, the conference brought together 60 delegates from over 15 countries around the world to discuss new research papers from a range of disciplinary sub-fields across International Relations and International Political Economy. The conference discussions focused on critical questions such as how China’s rise is changing the global order, whether China’s visions for global order represent a viable alternative mode of global governance, and how more Sino-centric global governance institutions will shape international power relations.

Plenary speakers at the conference included: Professor Kerry Brown, King's College London; Dr Lai-Ha Chan, University of Technology Sydney and Princeton University; Professor Rosemary Foot, University of Oxford; Dr Yang Jiang, Danish Institute for International Studies; Professor Katherine Morton, University of Sheffield; Professor Edward Newman, University of Leeds; Professor John Ravenhill, Balsillie School of International Affairs; and Professor Yongjin Zhang, University of Bristol.

A selection of research papers that were presented at the conference will be published online later this year in the Hallsworth China Forum, a special collection within the CSGR Working Paper Series.

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