Articles by Maryna Rabinovych

February 24, 2025

🧭 Could the spillover effects of war strengthen EU enlargement?

Maryna Rabinovych

Maryna Rabinovych argues that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine reshaped EU enlargement dynamics, creating both pressure and opportunity. To sustain momentum, the EU needs a strategic vision and transparent policies. By harnessing wartime spillover effects, the EU can transform reactive measures into structured accession pathways for Ukraine and Moldova

Maryna Rabinovych

Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Social Sciences, UiT: the Arctic University of Norway

Maryna is also affiliated with the Department of Public Policy at Kyiv School of Economics, and holds a non-residential fellowship with the U-NET Ukraine Research Network at the Centre for East European and International Studies, ZOiS, Berlin.

She holds a PhD from the University of Hamburg and has researched at the the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Vienna University, the University of Agder (Norway) and, most recently, Sydney University of Technology.

Her research interests include the European Union and its external relations, Ukraine’s European integration, politico-legal developments in Ukraine, and the 2014 decentralisation reform and its long-term effects, in particular on municipalities’ wartime resilience.

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