Anastasiia specialises in the societal resilience and security of Wider Europe, with a geographic focus on the countries of the Eastern Neighbourhood and the Western Balkans.
She currently works on the Building resilience to state capture project, investigating the challenges of anti-corruption reforms in Ukraine after the Revolution of Dignity.
Previously, Anastasiia worked as Research Fellow at the University of Warwick on the Horizon project SHAPEDEM-EU, focusing on local practices and perceptions of democracy in the Eastern Neighbourhood.
While at Warwick, she completed her first independent project as a PI on resilience during war.
Anastasiia has also worked at the University of Oxford, the University of Kent and SOAS, among other institutions.
Her research has been published in Contemporary Security Policy, Comparative Southeast European Studies, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, International Peacekeeping and other academic journals.
Security Governance in Times of Complexity: The EU and Security Sector Reform in the Western Balkans, 1991–2013
Columbia University Press/Ibidem Verlag, 2023
