The State of the Russo-Ukrainian war after one year

Experts on the military, economics, decentralization, and public opinion discussed the impact of the war and prospects for Ukrainian victory.

 

 

 

Dr. Oksana Huss is a researcher in the BIT-ACT research project at the University of Bologna, Italy, and a lecturer at the Anti-Corruption Research and Education Centre, Ukraine. Her areas of expertise cover (anti-)corruption and social movements, as well as open government and digital technologies. Oksana obtained her doctoral degree at the Institute for Development and Peace in Germany and held several research fellowships in Canada, France, the Netherlands, and Sweden. She consulted international organizations, such as the Council of Europe, EU, UNESCO, and UNODC. Oksana is a co-founder of the Interdisciplinary Corruption Research Network and author of the book, How Corruption and Anti-Corruption Policies Sustain Hybrid Regimes: Strategies of Political Domination under Ukraine’s Presidents in 1994-2014.

 

Petro Burkovskyi is Executive Director at Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundations, one of the oldest Ukrainian think tanks (DIF, 1992). MA in Political Science (Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, 2004). Before joining DIF in 2017, worked in the National Institute for Strategic Studies (2006-2020), governmental think tank under the President of Ukraine, including the position of Head of the Center for Advanced Russian Studies (2018-2020). Alumnus of George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies (2007). Worked for Al Jazeera Media Corporation (Doha, Qatar) as guest Ukrainian expert (Feb 20 - Apr.30, 2022). Member of the PONARS network.  

 

Konstantin Sonin is John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. His research interests include political economics, development, and economic theory.Sonin earned an MSc and PhD in mathematics from Moscow State University and an MA in economics at Moscow’s New Economic School (NES), was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, served on the faculty of NES and HSE University in Moscow, and was also a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. In addition to his academic work, Sonin has contributed columns and Op-Eds  on political and economic issues to Russian media until they were shut down by the government; since then, he posts on Facebook in Russian and Telegram and tweets in English.  

 

Yuri Zhukov is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a Research Associate Professor with the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research. His research focuses on the causes, dynamics and outcomes of conflict, at the international and local levels. Zhukov's methodological areas of interest include spatial statistics, mathematical/computational modeling and text analysis.He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Government at Harvard University. Zhukov also hold degrees from the Graduate School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University (M.A.) and Brown University (A.B.).His research has been published (or is forthcoming) in the American Political Science Review, Foreign Affairs, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Politics, Journal of Strategic Studies, Political Geography, Political Communication, Quarterly Journal of Political Science, Conflict Management and Peace Science, Naval War College Review, Small Wars and Insurgencies, World Politics, and several edited volumes and general-audience publications.