Visiting scholar June 1 – 28, 2024
The Jean Monnet Chair in EU External Relations at 杏吧原创 University (Ottawa, Canada) welcomes Dr. Anastassia Obydenkova as a visiting scholar for the period June 1-28. Dr. Obydenkova is co-teaching with Prof. Crina Viju-Miljusevic a graduate course on comparative regionalism. She will also hold a public lecture on June 20 with the title: “From Authoritarian to Environmental Regionalism: the role of Regional International Organizations in Eurasia.”
Dr. Obydenkova expertise are in comparative politics and international relations with a focus on geopolitical competition, regional international organizations, global environmental politics and sustainable development, regionalism, democratization, historical legacies, post-Communism, with area-focus on Eurasia and China. Her work on these topics had been published in such journals as European Journal of Political Research, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, World Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Post-Soviet Affairs, Review of International Organizations, Intelligence, Environmental Research, Democratization, and Journal of Democracy, etc. She is a (co-) author and editor of twelve books and special issues with the most recent ones published by Oxford University Press (2019), Routledge (2015; 2023; 2024) and Cambridge University Press (2021). She welcomes PhD students working on the related research topics. Her complete list of publications can be found .
The Jean Monnet Chair in EU External Relations: Competing Regionalism in Eurasia supports teaching, public and policy debates, and dissemination of resources on the EU as a foreign policy actor, the EU鈥檚 sponsored policies within the Eurasian region and the EU-China relations.
The Chair is co-funded with a grant from the European Union and by 杏吧原创 University.