Fellows' Publications

Explore recent publications, policy briefs, book chapters, journal articles, and conference contributions by fellows affiliated with the Petrach Program on Ukraine.

2026

Ibrahim Muradov and Micah Matsuno
“The Limits of Contextual Resonance: Why Putin’s Imperial Discourse Failed in Ukraine.”
European Journal of International Security, 2026, First View, pp. 1–21.
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Mikhail A. Alexseev, Serhii Dembitskyi, and Henry E. Hale
“Five Years into the War, Ukraine Is Showing Grittiness, Rebounding Confidence in War Fortunes.”
PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 963 (Washington, DC: PONARS Eurasia, July 27, 2026).
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Nadia Bureiko and Maryna Rabinovych
“Forged in War: Public Diplomacy of Ukraine.” 
HROMADA Network, 2026
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Alexandr Osipian
From Donbas to “Novorossiya”: The Russo-Ukrainian Conflict over South-East Ukraine.
Leipzig: Leipzig University Press, 2026.
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2025

Mikhail A. Alexseev and Henry E. Hale
“The Gradual Reemergence of Democratic Politics in Wartime Ukraine.”
In Mikhail A. Alexseev, ed., Political Dynamics in Ukraine (Washington, DC: PONARS Eurasia, 2025), pp. 41–50.
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Henry E. Hale
“Understanding Wartime Ukraine and the Prospects for Peace.”
In Mikhail A. Alexseev, ed., Political Dynamics in Ukraine (Washington, DC: PONARS Eurasia, 2025), pp. 108–114.
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Pavlo Smytsnyuk
“The Holy See’s Positive Neutrality and Conflict Mediation: Moral Dilemmas in the Russo-Ukrainian War.”
Canadian Slavonic Papers, 2025, pp. 147–171.
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Iryna Khmeleva and Solomiia Vybranovska
The Cyber Sanctions Gap: Building a United Front.
Economic Security Council of Ukraine Policy Brief. Kyiv: Economic Security Council of Ukraine, 2025.

Pavlo Smytsnyuk
“Democracy as a Theological Concept? Religious Narratives and Political Mythologies in the Russo-Ukrainian War.”
In Christianity and Democracy Today: International Perspectives, 2025, pp. 121–140.
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2024

Volodymyr Kulyk and Henry E. Hale
“How Ukrainians’ Wartime Unity Changes the Usefulness of Ethnic Categories.”
Nations and Nationalism, 2024.
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Alexandr Osipian
“Uses of the History of WWII in Russian Foreign Policy, 1991–2022.”
Global History, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2024, pp. 151–179.

Iryna Baltaziuk
“New Impulses for the Development of Creative Professions in the Post-Pandemic World.”
Current Issues of the Humanities, Drohobych State Pedagogical University, Drohobych, Ukraine, Issue 71, Vol. 1, 2024, pp. 61–70.
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Iryna Baltaziuk
Iryna Vorona. Flucht.
Backnang, Germany: WIRmachenDRUCK GmbH, 2024. 116 p. ISBN: 978-3-00-078574-0.

V. Lytvyn and N. Demchenko
“Initiation and Consequences of Interstate Conflicts and Wars in Different Systems of Government: A Statistical Perspective.”
In Political Parties and Elections: Ukrainian and World Practices, Vol. 8, 2024, pp. 98–119. Lviv: Ivan Franko National University of Lviv.

Elmira Muratova
“Krimtatarische Studien nach 2014. Ein Forschungsfeld in der Grauzone.”
Für Vielfalt, 340(1), 2024, pp. 30–32.
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Oleg Yarosh and Mykhaylo Yakubovych
“Ukraine.”
In A. Alibašić and S. Akgonul, eds., Yearbook of Muslims in Europe, Vol. 15, 2024, pp. 650–667.
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Yuriy Zaliznyak
“The Lives and Hopes of Crimean Tatars after the 2014 Annexation.”
ZOIS Spotlight, 6/2024.
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Yuriy Zaliznyak
“Freedom of the Press and National Interests: Russian Information Aggression in Ukrainian Information Space.”
In Global Journalism in Comparative Perspective, 2024. ISBN: 9781003327639.
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2023

Volodymyr Lytvyn
Presented the paper “Initiation and Consequences of Interstate Conflicts and Wars in Different Systems of Government: A Statistical Perspective” at the international scientific conference “Institutional, Party, and Electoral Factors of the Political Process in Ukraine and Other European Countries in Times of War and Uncertainty: National, Supranational, and Subnational Levels,” held in Lviv, Ukraine, November 24–25, 2023.

Elmira Muratova
“Verfolgung und Abkapselung. Die Krimtataren und Russlands Krieg gegen die Ukraine.”
Religion & Gesellschaft in Ost und West, 9, 2023, pp. 28–30.
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Elmira Muratova and Elmira Akhmetova, eds.
Muslims of Central Eurasia since the 19th Century: Daily Life, Identity, Intellectual Thought and Education.
Baku: Idrak Public Union, 2023.
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Oleg Yarosh
“Vielfältiger Bildteppich. Muslime in der Ukraine während des Kriegs.”
Religion & Gesellschaft in Ost und West, 9, 2023, pp. 31–33.
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Oleg Yarosh
Review of Violence in Islamic Thought from European Imperialism to the Post-Colonial Era, Vol. 3, edited by M. Baig and R. Gleave.
Sententiae, 42(3), 2023, pp. 151–160.
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Ararat Osipian
Sustainable Economic Growth in Russia: A Structuralist Approach.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
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Ararat Osipian
The Economics of Growth in Russia: Overcoming the Poverty Trap.
New York and London: Routledge, 2023.
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