Western Support for Ukraine: How Long Will It Last and How Much Will Be Provided?

March 6, 2023 | 12:00PM - 1:15PM
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Online
Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (CERES), Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine, Europe & Eurasia, Global governance, Human rights & justice, Conflict & security

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Experts on Ukrainian, American, and European politics discussed issues surrounding military and other forms of support to Ukraine.
 
 
About the speakers:
 
Milada Anna Vachudova is a Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She specializes in European politics, political change in postcommunist Europe, the European Union and the impact of international actors on domestic politics. Her recent articles explore the trajectories of European states amidst strengthening ethnopopulism and democratic backsliding – and how these changes are impacting party systems and the European Union. Professor Vachudova is part of the core team of the Chapel Hill Expert Survey (CHES) on the positions of political parties across Europe. She served as the Chair of the Curriculum in Global Studies at UNC from 2014 to 2019. Her book, Europe Undivided: Democracy, Leverage and Integration After Communism (Oxford University Press) was awarded the Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research.
 
Volodymyr Dubovyk is an associate professor, Department of International Relations and Director, Center for International Studies, Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University (Ukraine). V. Dubovyk has conducted research at the Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (1997, 2006-2007), at the Center for International and Security Studies at the University of Maryland (2002), taught at the University of Washington (Seattle) in 2013 and at St. Edwards university/University of Texas (Austin) in 2016-17. Volodymyr has been a Fulbright Scholar twice. He is the co-author of Ukraine and European Security (Macmillan, 1999) and has published numerous articles on US-Ukraine relations, regional and international security, and Ukraine’s foreign policy. His areas of expertise are Ukraine, Transatlantic Relations, U.S., Black Sea security and security studies.  
 
James Goldgeier is a professor of International Relations and served as Dean of the School of International Service at American University from 2011-17. He is a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University's Center on International Security and Cooperation and a Visiting Fellow at the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution. He serves as the chair of the State Department Historical Advisory Committee and is a member of the Secretary of State's International Security Advisory Board.  
 
Pawel Zerka is a policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. He is a lead ECFR analyst on European public opinion. He contributes to ECFR’s Re:shape Global Europe project, which seeks to develop new strategies for Europeans to understand and engage with the changing international order. Pawel is also engaged in discussions about Europe’s economic statecraft, and he works on Polish and European foreign policy. Based at ECFR’s Paris office, he has been part of the team since August 2017. Previously, Zerka worked as expert and head of programmes at two leading Polish think tanks, demosEUROPA-Centre for European Strategy and WiseEuropa. Zerka holds a PhD in economics and a master’s degree in international relations from the Warsaw School of Economics, having also studied at SciencesPo Bordeaux and Universidad de Buenos Aires.
 
Markus Kaim is a senior fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs of the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP). He has been a DAAD Professor for German and European Studies at the University of Toronto (2007-2008), and Acting Professor for Foreign Policy and International Relations at the University of Constance (2007). He was a Visiting Fellow at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies at Johns Hopkins University (2005). Since 2012, he is adjunct professor at the Department for Political Science, University of Zurich and guest instructor at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin.
Co-Sponsored by the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies and the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine
Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (CERES), Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine, Europe & Eurasia, Global governance, Human rights & justice, Conflict & security
Arba Bardhi;  arba.bardhi@utoronto.ca

Speakers

Volodymyr Dubovyk
Volodymyr Dubovyk

Associate Professor, Department of International Relations, Mechnikov National University, Odesa, Ukraine; Petro Jacyk Non-Residential Fellow

James Goldgeier
James Goldgeier

Professor of International Relations, American University

Markus Kaim
Markus Kaim

Senior Fellow, German Institute for International and Security Affairs

Pawel Zerka
Paweł Zerka

Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations

Luacn Way
Lucan Way

Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto; co-director of the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine

Milada Anna Vachudova
Milada Anna Vachudova

Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill