Professor Elena Korosteleva

Director of the Institute for Global Sustainable Development

elena dot korosteleva at warwick dot ac dot uk

R2.12, Ramphal Building, School of Cross-Faculty Studies, University of 糖心TV, Coventry, CV4 7AL

Biography

Elena Korosteleva is Professor of Politics and Global Sustainable Development, and Director of the Institute of Global Sustainable Development (IGSD). She is also Jean Monnet Chair of European Politics, which she was awarded twice by the European Commission in recognition of her research and teaching excellence. Before joining IGSD in 2022, she was Professor of International Politics and a Founder of the Global Europe Centre (Professional Studies) at the University of Kent for ten years. Prior to that Elena worked Senior Lecturer in International Politics and Director of the Centre for European Studies at Aberystwyth University.

Professor Korosteleva is presently a Co-Investigator on the Horizon Europe project SHAPEDEM-EU (2022-25) and the co-founder of the Belarus Oxford Observatory (2021-23). She is also the Principal Investigator for the (2017-22) and GCRF COMPASS+ projects (2022-23) focusing on nurturing resilience in Central Eurasia in the areas of research integration, impact governance, and sustainable communities. The COMPASS project was highly commended by the Times Higher Education in 2021, under the category of the .

Research Interests

Resilience, complexity, capacity-building and sustainable development
Concepts of governance and order in IR and Development studies
Europe as a global actor, in Development, Environment, Foreign Policy and Security
Pluralising and contextualising democracy
Relations with Russia, Eastern and Central Europe, and Central Asia

Elena has over 20 years of successful professional experience of researching the issues of global sustainable development, with a focus on Global Europe and Central Eurasia from a Complex IR and Development perspectives. She received her Doctoral Degree in European Studies & Modern Languages from the University of Bath (2001), and a PhD equivalent in Political Sociology from the Belarusian State University (1997). Thereafter she served as a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow, and Lecture/Senior Lecturer/Professor at the Universities of Aberystwyth and Kent. She is currently a Visiting Professor at the ; the ; , and the (Natolin). Elena served as member of the International Advisory Board for the and Central European Strategy Council; Professorial Fellow of the at LSE IDEAS, and core group member, Munich Security Conference (2018). Elena works closely with the UK (Westminster, FCDO, British Council, WFD, HMG Embassies) and EU institutions (European Commission, External Action Service, European Parliament and regional EUDs), EU organisations (TEPSA, IRI, CEPS, EED, SIDA), and national governments in wider Eurasia. Elena is a regular media commentator for BBC, ITV, France24, Sky News and national news channels.

DFF AGMOW (2023-25, Co-Investigator)
GCRF GNCA COMPASS+ project (2022-23) to further research and policy impact of the GCRF COMPASS project.
Research England (拢32K, April-July 2022, PI) 鈥楿nderstanding communities in crisis: the Case of Ukraine鈥�, University of 糖心TV, with Dr Asya Kudlenko
Horizon Europe SHAPEDEM-EU (鈧�3mln in total; 拢300K contribution; 2022-25; Co-Investigator), 12-member consortium to study the theory and practice of democracy in the EU and its neighbourhoods.
Oxford Belarus Observatory (OBO) (OR2020-75979; 拢180K; 2021-23; Co-PI), OSGA, REES, University of Oxford, focusing on raising awareness and undertaking analysis of change in Belarus.
Global Challenges Research Fund UKRI Conflict Intersections Call (AH/V007475/1; 拢200K; 2021-22; Principal Investigator) GOOD-Neighbour, focusing on resilience-building and sustainable development in Central Asia - awarded but subsequently cancelled by UKRI due to the government's cuts to ODA funding.
Global Challenges Research Fund UKRI Cluster Call (EP/T024801/1; 拢150k; 2020-21; 1^st round; Co-Investigator) AGRE, with Universities of Durham and Oxford, focusing on connectivity and challenges of globalisation for sustainable development across Central Eurasia, Middle East and Mongolia. The 1^st phase sets to develop a 拢3mln project for 2022.
Global Challenges Research Fund UKRI (ES/PO10849/1; 拢4mln; 2017-21; Principal Investigator) COMPASS, an interdisciplinary capacity-building project to explore adaptive governance, change & resilience in Eastern Europe & Central Asia. The project was shortlisted for the Times Higher Education (THE) International Collaboration Award 2021.
H2020 twinning project UPTAKE (H2020-TWINN-2015 691818; 鈧�1,2mio; 2016-19; Co-Investigator) on research capacity-building in the area of IR and Global Security Studies, in cooperation with Tartu and Uppsala Universities
AHRC CEELBAS development fund, Phase II, a seven-member consortium (AH/L006715/1, 拢312,618, 2014-16; CI)
ESRC 1st Grants Scheme (RES-061-25-0001; 拢500K; 2008-11; Principal Investigator) Research project 鈥楨uropeanizing or Securitizing the 鈥榦utsiders鈥�? Assessing the EU鈥檚 partnership-building approach with Eastern Europe鈥� to examine EU governance and order in the eastern neighbourhood, inclusive of Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova
British Academy (BA, 拢100K; 2001-2004) British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 'The quality of democracy in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova', University of Glasgow, to examine models of governance and security
EU/INTAS (INTAS-1999-00245, 鈧�90K; 2000-2002; Principal Investigator) Research project 鈥楥harismatic political leadership in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine鈥�, University of Bath, to examine governance models in eastern Europe.

Elena is the author of a dozen books; over 90 articles, chapters and briefs

Books:

Belarus in the XXI Century: Between Dictatorship and Democracy. (London Routledge 2022 forth coming), (with I. Petrova and A. Kudlenko, eds)
Resilient Communities of Central Eurasia: responding to change, complexity and the visions of 鈥済ood life鈥� (21 March 2023 forthcoming, with I. Petrova, eds.) London: Taylor & Francis ISBN 9781032290942
Resilience in EU and International Institutions: Redefining Local Ownership in a New Global Governance (London: Routledge 2020, 30 November), ISBN 9780367543914 (editor and contributor)
鈥淭he Politics鈥� and 鈥淭he Political鈥� of the Eastern Partnership Initiative: Reshaping the Agenda (London: Routledge 2018), ISBN 9780815358985; 9780367511319 paper edition 2020 (editor and contributor)
EU Policies in the Eastern Neighbourhood: the practices perspective (London: Routledge 2014), ISBN 9780415720571, (editor and contributor)
The European Union and its Eastern Neighbours: towards a more ambitious partnership? (London: Routledge, 2012) ISBN 9780415612616, 2014 paper edition
Eastern Partnership: a new opportunity for neighbours? (London: Routledge, 2011), ISBN 9780415676076 (editor and contributor)
Vostochnoe Partnerstvo: problemy i perspektivy [Eastern Partnership: problems and perspectives], (Minsk: Belarusian State University, 2011), ISBN 9789854910888 (editor and contributor)
The Quality of Democracy in Post-Communist Europe (London: Routledge, 2006). ISBN 0415348072 (editor and contributor)
Postcommunist Belarus (N.Y. & Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005) ISBN 074253555-X (editor and contributor)
Contemporary Belarus: Between Democracy and Dictatorship (London: Routledge Curzon, 2003) ISBN 0700716130 (editor and contributor)
Intellektual v socio-kul鈥檛urnom kontekste sovremennogo obschestva: dialektika proshlogo i budushchego [The Intellectual in a socio-cultural context of modern society: the dialectics of the past and the future], ISBN 9856390079 Minsk: VEDY, 1997

ARTICLES (PEER-REVIEWED): 2013+

鈥楶ower, People and the Political: understanding the many crises in Belarus鈥�, Nationalities Papers, part of Special Issue, (forthcoming 2022, with I. Petrova) DOI: 10.1017/nps.2022.77
鈥楾he War in Ukraine: Putin and the multi-order world鈥�, Contemporary Security Policy, Special Issue (advance publication, 15 June 2022) DOI: 10.1080/13523260.2022.2091591
鈥楥ommunity resilience in Belarus and the EU response鈥�, Journal of Common Market Studies, Annual Review Vol. 59 (S1): 124-36 (27 Sept 2021), DOI:
鈥楽ocietal resilience in Belarus and the EU response鈥�, Journal of Common Market studies, Annual Review (28 Sept 2021), DOI:
鈥楿nderstanding fragilities and resilience: the emergence of peoplehood in Belarus鈥�, Journal of Eurasian Studies (2021, 29 Aug) as part of Special Issue. Advanced online publication:
Special Issue 鈥楾he Making of Resilient Communities in Central Eurasia鈥�, Cambridge Review of International Affairs (co-editor) 35(3) 2022
鈥榃hat makes communities resilient?鈥� Introduction (under review)
Special Issue 鈥楻ussia between East & West, & the Future of Eurasian Order鈥�, International Politics (co-editor) 58(3) June 2021
鈥楻ussia between east and west, and the future of Eurasian order鈥� (with Zach Paikin), Introduction, 58(3): 321-34 DOI:1057/s41311-020-00261-5
鈥楩rom 鈥渢he global鈥� to 鈥渢he local鈥�: the future of cooperative orders in Central Eurasia in times of complexity鈥� (with I. Petrova) 58(3): 421-44 DOI:1057/s41311-020-00262-4
Special Issue 鈥楻esilience in EU and International Institutions鈥�, Contemporary Security Policy (co-editor) 42(2) 2020
鈥楻esilience in EU and International Institutions: redefining local ownership in a new global governance agenda鈥�, 42(2): 153-75 (with T. Flockhart) DOI: 10.1080/13523260.2020.1723973
鈥楻eclaiming Resilience Back: A local turn in EU external governance鈥�, 42(2) 2020: 241-62 DOI: 1080/13523260.2019.1685316
鈥楶utting the EU Global Security Strategy to Test: 鈥渃ooperative orders鈥� and othering in EU-Russia relations鈥�, International Politics, 56(3) 2019: 304-20. Special Issue DOI: 10.1057/s41311-017-0128-7
鈥楶aradigmatic or Critical? Resilience as a New Turn in EU governance for the Neighbourhood鈥�, Journal of International Relations and Development (accepted July 2018), 23(3) 2020: 682-700
Special Issue 鈥楾he Politics and the Political of the Eastern Partnership Initiative: re-shaping the agenda鈥� (co-editor) 33(3) 2017
鈥楨astern Partnership: Bringing 鈥淭he Political Back in鈥濃€�, East European Politics, 33(3) 2017: 1-25
鈥楨astern Partnership and the Eurasian Union鈥�, European Politics and Societies, Special Issue 鈥楨urasia in a Global Context鈥�, 17(sup1) 2016: 67-81
鈥楾he EU, Russia and the Eastern Region: the analytics of governance for sustainable cohabitation鈥�, Cooperation and Conflict, 51(3) 2016: 365-83
鈥楾he EU and Belarus: democracy promotion by technocratic means?鈥�, Democratization 23(4) 2015: 678-99
鈥楨valuating the role of partnership in the European Neighbourhood Policy鈥�, Eastern Journal of European Studies, Special Issue, 4(2) December 2013: 11-36
Special Issue 鈥楾he ENP in the Eastern Region: the practices perspective鈥�, East European Politics, 29(3) 2013 (co-editor)
鈥楾he Eastern Dimension of the ENP: practices, instruments and social structures鈥�, Special Issue, 鈥楾he ENP in the Eastern Region: the practices perspective鈥�, East European Politics, 29(3) 2013: 257-73 (with M. Natorski and L. Simao)

CHAPTERS: 2013+

鈥楻esilience in Global International Society鈥�, chapter in Flockhart, T. & Paikin, Z. (eds) Rebooting Global International Society: Change, Contestation and Resilience (Palgrave, 2022) DOI : 10.1007/978-3-031-11393-2
鈥楥hallenges of a Changing European Neighbourhood鈥�, in, T. Schumacher, T. Demmelhuber, and A. Marchetti (eds.) The Routledge Handbook on the European Neighbourhood Policy (Routledge, 2017) Ch.15 ISBN 9781138913721
鈥樷€漈he Political鈥� and the ENP: Rethinking the EU Relations with the eastern region鈥�, in S. Gstohl, and S. Schunz (eds.) Theorizing the ENP (Routledge, 2017), (with I.Merheim-Eyre, and E. van Gils), pp. 226-44
鈥楾he EU-Russia relations: in search of a dialogue鈥�, in C. Nitou (ed.) Avoiding a New 鈥淐old War鈥濃€� (LSE IDEAS, March 2016), pp. 40-46
鈥楾owards the European Global Security Strategy: challenges and opportunities鈥�, in A. Spruds and K. Bukovskis (2015) Towards Reassurance and Solidarity in Euro-Atlantic Community, LIIA Riga Summit papers, 39-48
鈥楾he EU and Russia: prospects for cohabitation in the contested region鈥�, in D. Lane (ed.) The Eurasian Project and Europe: Regional Discontinuities and Geopolitics (Palgrave 2015), pp. 187-203
鈥楾he EU and its Eastern Neighbours: why 鈥榦thering鈥� matters鈥�, in Nicolaidis, K. and B. Sebe (eds.) Echoes of Empire: memories, identity and colonial legacies (London: Tauris, 2015), pp. 267-83
鈥楤elarus: Neither with the EU nor the ECU?鈥�, in P. Dutkiewicz and R. Sakwa (eds.) Eurasian Integration: the View from Within (Routledge 2014), pp.111-126
鈥楺uestioning Democracy Promotion: Belarus鈥� Response to the Coloured Revolutions鈥�, in Finkel, E. and Brudny, Y. (eds.) Coloured Revolutions and Authoritarian Reactions (Routledge, 2013) ISBN 9780415639576

WORK IN PROGRESS:

Change, Complexity, and Multi-Order Governance: the making of resilient communities in Central Eurasia (2022, book manuscript under review with Oxford University Press)
Belarus in XXI century: the birth of peoplehood (2022, in progress, contract with Routledge)
鈥楻esilience, Security and Local Ownership in EU Foreign Policies鈥�, a symposium for JCMS (spring 2022)
鈥楥hallenges to Democracy Promotion: an ontological perspective鈥�, Democratization (work in progress)

BRIEFING RESEARCH & POLICY PAPERS (2019+):

Power, People and Politics: Understanding the Belarusian Crisis, E-International Relations, 8 September 2020
A Changing Belarus? The country in the eye of the storm, LSE Dahrendorf Forum Debating Europe, 5 August 2020
The Eastern Partnership 3.0: Change or Continuity?, LSE Dahrendorf Forum Debating Europe, 24 April 2020
Resilience is Dead. Long Live Resilience? Hertie Dahrendorf & Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), 9 April 2020
The EU and the EaP Countries: how to 鈥渓ose weight鈥� and incentivise reform? GCRF COMPASS Paper, 17 February 2020
The EU and Central Asia: New opportunities or 鈥榯he same old song鈥�? LSE Dahrendorf Forum, June 2019
Five years after Maidan: Toward a Greater Eurasia?, LSE IDEAS GCRF COMPASS report, May 2019
A Comedian, a President, and a Prime Minister: The 2019 presidential election in Ukraine, LSE IDEAS Forum, 2019

Professor Korosteleva is interested in supervising research degree students who wish to explore conceptually and practically, the notions of governance, societal resilience, complexity, democracy, 鈥榯he local鈥� vs 鈥榯he global鈥�, and sustainable development, especially with the focus on wider/central Eurasia .

Director of the Institute for Global Sustainable Development.
Member of the Environmental and Social Sustainability Action Group