EURUS MA Graduate Trevor Peeters published a Policy Brief “Investing in Sovereignty: Securing Critical Infrastructure Before the Capital Arrives” on the Eastern European and Transatlantic Network website.

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The Centre for European Studies (CES) and the have selected Jan Wouters as the 2026 Konrad Adenauer Visiting Professor on Transatlantic Relations. Professor Wouters will teach a class for EURUS in the Fall 2026.

 is a widely published scholar of global governance, international and EU law, human rights, international organizations, and corporate law. He is Full Professor of International Law and International Organizations at KU Leuven in Belgium, where he serves as Jean Monnet Chair ad personam in EU and Global Governance, Founding Director of the Institute for International Law and the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, and Administrator of the America Europe Fund. He has led several collaborative transatlantic research initiatives, including most recently the , in which �Ӱ�ԭ�� University is a member. He has published more than 85 books, 165 journal articles, and 300 book chapters.

He will be teaching the following course comparing Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Europe and North America. Click below to see the syllabus:

Fall 2026 (EURR 4201/5201) on “Human Rights and the Rule of Law: American, Canadian and European Perspectives”. 

Read the full announcement of his appointment from CES below.

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EURUS Professor Jeff Sahadeo published a policy brief on Armenia after the 2026 election on the Eastern European and Transatlantic Network site.

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Congratulations to Achim Hurrelmann, Professor of Political Science cross-appointed with EURUS, on securing a SSHRC Partnership Grant on trade policy. Professor Hurrelmann will be the network coordinator for the Research Network on Trade Politics in North America and Europe (TRADEPOL), an international partnership examining how growing political debates around trade are reshaping governance and decision-making.

The network will study evolving trade politics across North America and Europe, focusing on changing policy actors, emerging trade agendas and shifting patterns of international cooperation and conflict. A key outcome of the project will be the creation of a new open-access Trade Politics Database, providing researchers and policymakers with a unique resource to analyze trade-related discourse and governance trends over the past two decades.

By connecting universities, government institutions, business associations, trade unions and think tanks, TRADEPOL will generate research and policy insights that support more equitable, inclusive and accountable approaches to trade governance.

TRADEPOL will be housed in �Ӱ�ԭ�� Unviersity’s Centre for European Studies. In addition to Professor Hurrelmann, EURUS Professor Crina Viju-Miljusevic and EURUS Distinguished Research Professor Joan DeBardeleben are also part of the research network along with other �Ӱ�ԭ�� faculty members as well as colleagues from other institutions. We look forward to the many activities of this new research initiative and the opportunities that it will create for EURUS and other �Ӱ�ԭ�� students!

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On 2 July 2026, the University of Latvia hosted the one-day international Emerging Scholars Workshop “Security, Resilience and Strategic Thinking in a Changing Europe” co-organized by the Eastern Europe and Transatlantic Network (EETN) and the University of Latvia. The EETN is a research initiative funded by Canada’s Department of National Defence through the Mobilizing Insights in Defence and Security (MINDS) program and is hosted by the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at �Ӱ�ԭ�� University, Canada.

The workshop brought together emerging researchers and experts from the University of Latvia, �Ӱ�ԭ�� University, the University of Helsinki, the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, the University of Roma Tre and other institutions. The programme combined academic analysis with practical security-policy perspectives, focusing on Russia’s war against Ukraine, hybrid threats, NATO deterrence, strategic stability, political memory and radicalization risks in the digital environment.

Through the EETN, EURUS professors Crina Viju-Miljusevic and Jeff Sahadeo helped organize the conference and provided funds for travel support for EURUS MA students who participated in the event, providing a unique international experience and networking opportunity.

Read the full Event Report on the EETN website.

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Three first-year �Ӱ�ԭ�� undergraduate students participated in the third Canadian Model European Union (EU) held at the University of Victoria. Professor Achim Hurrelmann, Political Science and EURUS, helped prepare them for the event. Read more about it on the FGPA website:

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Congratulations to our EURUS MA graduates who completed the program over the past academic year and whose accomplishments we celebrated at convocation on June 8. We are very proud of you!

Master of Arts in European, Russian and Eurasian Studies

Fall 2025

• Marko Bajus
• Thomas Cline,
  • Thesis: “From Kyiv with Love: The Push to Legalize Same-Sex Civil Partnerships”
• Algis Danaitis
  • Dual Master’s Degree in collaboration with Université catholique de Louvain
• Pelham Hardie
  • Thesis: “Central Asian Veterans of the Soviet-Afghan War: Political Impacts of Care and Neglect in Kyrgyzstan.”
• Mathieu Letarte
  • Thesis: “An Inquiry into Russia’s Strategic Use of Disinformation: A Qualitative Case Study of Russian Disinformation before and after the 2022 Invasion of Ukraine.”
• Victoria Salomon
  • Thesis: “To Every Man his Own Island:; Regional Identification in the Dodecanese Archipelago during the Italian Occupation (1912 – 1943).”
• Philip Was

Winter 2026

• Rory Heaslip
• Simon Kidd

Spring 2026

• Emma Bates
• Audrey Gauthier
  • Thesis: “Following the Rainbow: The Historical Development of Czech and Polish LGBTQ Activism and Responses to the Ukrainian Refugee Crisis.”
• Angela James
• Victoria Judka
• Baia Kotrikadze
• Liam Nohr
  • Thesis: “Mainstreaming on the Mediterranean: The Rassemblement National in Perpignan”
• Trevor Peeters
  • Thesis: “Decolonisation by Design: The Customisation of Indigeneity in the Creation of Soviet Kyrgyzstan.”
• Ireneusz Pietrasik
  • Thesis: “The Right-wing in Times of Crisis: Impacts of the War in Ukraine on Poland, the UK, and the U.S.”
• Elizaveta Tsintsadze

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The Canadian Journal of European and Russian Studies (CJERS) is pleased to announce the publication of a new Spring issue,  It includes the following articles:

Teemu Oivo, Mila Oiva, Anna Ristila

Syle Ukshini

Veronika Makarova

Ekaterina Kurinskaia, Lars Erik Gjerde

The  (CJERS) invites proposals for special issues or special sections.   Proposals are evaluated as received.  We welcome proposals that address topics related to the European Union, its Member States, the former Soviet Union, and Central and Eastern Europe, with a focus on the social sciences, policy studies, law, and/or international affairs.  In addition to themed proposals, CJERS also welcomes high-quality individual submissions that align with the journal’s scope. CJERS is an open access scholarly journal with a double-blind review process, housed at the  at �Ӱ�ԭ�� University in Ottawa, Canada.

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The Honourable Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s former Deputy Prime Minister, embodied her new role as a special advisor to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky by offering an impassioned argument for Ukraine’s war efforts during her delivery of the 2026 Bell Lecture on May 6 at �Ӱ�ԭ�� University. EURUS Professor and McMillan Chair in Russian Studies Paul Goode moderated the event.

More information about the event including a video recording of the event is available on the Faculty of Public and Global Affairs website:

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