Crisis and Migration Policy-Making: Normalization of Exceptionality
In the first half of 2023, asylum applications have increased all over the EU compared to last year, raising fears of a new ‘crisis’. Since 2015, the crisis has been the main frame of reference for...
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UACES Chair’s Message — November 2023
UACES Chair, Prof Simon Usherwood Dear Colleagues, The summery delights of our Annual Conference in Belfast might feel like a long time ago, now that more wintry weather has set in, but I’d like to...
View ArticleFieldwork in Turkey at Sabancı University
During the path towards a PhD degree, it is undeniable that having a chance to spend some time abroad as a visiting researcher is something that enriches not only the project itself but also the human...
View ArticleResearching Pharmaceutical Policymaking in Brussels
The growing complexity of EU policymaking continues to intrigue researchers from a wide variety of disciplines. Emerging challenges give rise to new scholarly puzzles at a rapid pace. As an early...
View Article‘Migrant Instrumentalisation’ , EU’s Border with Belarus and Russia and...
In late November 2023, Finland temporary closed all its border crossing points with Russia in response to the perceived ‘instrumentalisation of migrants’ by that country. This has been made possible by...
View ArticleExploring Russian Cyber Interference: A RENPET Scholar’s Journey at the...
Between September and December 2023, I undertook a RENPET-funded research stay at the University of Kent’s School of Politics and International Relations. This period was integral to my PhD thesis,...
View ArticleMy Research at the Archives of The United Nations Office at Geneva – A Field...
My two-day field trip to the United Nations Library & Archives Geneva, funded through a UACES-JMCT Scholarship, had the added benefit of being the site of the long-deceased League of Nations and...
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UACES Chair’s Message — February 2024
Dear Colleagues, As you’ll know, the UACES office is going through some changes. I will be writing to you shortly to introduce our new Executive Director, but in the meantime I want to give our...
View ArticleMaking Foreign Aid Work: Navigating the Aid Localisation Conundrum
Development assistance funding by international donors is rarely channeled through local actors. While there are strong normative and practical arguments to localize funding (i.e. directly channel...
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Women’s Leadership and Empowerment in the Transnistrian Conflict Resolution...
The context of my research: The war in Ukraine and its impact on Eastern European security perception Russia’s full-scale invasion and war of aggression against Ukraine has impacted security perception...
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