Maryna Rabinovych

• Rabinovych, Maryna & Pintsch, Anne (2024). From the 2014 Annexation of Crimea to the 2022 Russian War on Ukraine: Path Dependence and Socialization in the EU–Ukraine Relations. Journal of Common Market Studies. ISSN 0021-9886. doi: 10.1111/jcms.13572.
• Rabinovych, Maryna (2023). Standardization of the Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption Clauses in EU Regional Trade Agreements with Developing Countries: Quo Vadis? . In Francesco, Duina & Viju-Miljusevic, Crina (Ed.), Standardizing the World: EU Trade Policy and the Road to Convergence. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780197681916. p. 79–95. doi: https:/doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197681886.003.0004.
• Rabinovych, Maryna (2023). The Eastern Neighbours and EU Security Policy: A Differentiated Integration Perspective. European Foreign Affairs Review. ISSN 1384-6299. 28(3), p. 223–241. doi: 10.54648/eerr2023019. Show summary

  The EU’s decision to grant Ukraine and Moldova a candidate country status and the recognition of Georgia’s European perspective in June 2022 has significant effects for both the EU’s enlargement and security and defence policies. So far, ‘hard’ security issues have played little role in the framing of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) and the Association Agreements (AAs) with Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia. Their full integration into EU security and defence arrangements will thus require considerable strategy-making and implementation efforts. This article discusses the extent to which existing external Differentiated Integration (DI) constellations can be seen as ‘building blocks’ for Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia’s prospective full integration into the EU’s security and defence architecture. It is shown that, in legal and practical terms, such DI constellations are conducive to the deepening of these countries’ integration with the EU in the security and defence domain. From the political viewpoint, the focus on DI with the new accession countries may, however, be (mis)used as a substitute for fullscale integration into the EU security and defence architecture. We, nonetheless, suggest several pilot domains that can be used to test the limits of new accession countries’ DI with the Union.

• Rabinovych, Maryna & Pintsch, Anne (2023). Compliance Negotiations in EU External Relations: The Case of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement. Journal of European Integration. ISSN 0703-6337. doi: 10.1080/07036337.2023.2272732. Full text in Research Archive
• Rabinovych, Maryna; Brik, Tymofii; Darkovich, Andrii; Savisko, Myroslava; Hatsko, Valentyn & Tytiuk, Serhii [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2023). Explaining Ukraine's resilience to Russia's invasion: The role of local governance. Governance. An International Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions. ISSN 0952-1895. doi: 10.1111/gove.12827. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Resilience of local communities (territorial hromadas) is an increasingly salient matter in the academic and policy debate on the factors which have determined Ukraine's resilience to Russia's 2022 invasion. Building on existing literature on institutional resilience and its predictors, this article explains the ability of Ukrainian self-governed municipalities to withstand the threats to institutional stability stemming from the invasion. First, it uses an exploratory qualitative design to operationalize the concept of resilience and its predictors with an account of varying experiences of Ukrainian hromadas during the full-scale invasion (e.g., hromadas near the frontline and in the rear). Next, it presents data from open sources and the results of a regression analysis to test the impact of various groups of predictors on hromadas' resilience to the full-scale invasion. Our models show a significant relationship between hromadas' resilience and geographical, politico-administrative and economic predictors influenced by the outcomes of the decentralization reform conducted in Ukraine since 2014.

• Rabinovych, Maryna & Pintsch, Anne (2023). The Eastern Partnership Initiative: Challenges of Assessing Performance and New Geopolitical Realities. International Politics. ISSN 1384-5748. p. 1–17. doi: 10.1057/s41311-023-00520-1.
• Rabinovych, Maryna (2023). Striving for trade not peace? Revisiting trade-peace and trade-security nexuses in the EU’s trade policy strategy amidst the Russia-Ukraine war. Journal of European Integration. ISSN 0703-6337. 45(7), p. 1075–1098. doi: 10.1080/07036337.2023.2232940. Show summary

  This article dismantles the popular myth that the strategic framing of the EU’s trade with Russia following the 2014 ‘Ukraine crisis’ was nurtured by the liberal peace logic, and the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine should be thus seen as an ultimate failure of a ‘liberal peace’ hypothesis. To challenge this argument, we provide a nuanced conceptualization of the trade-peace and trade-security nexuses in EU trade policy and apply it to the case of EU-Russia trade relations (2014–2022). We find that the trade-peace and trade-security nexuses in the EU’s framing of its approach to Russia has been shaped by the bargaining and restrictive logics. Though the case of Russia’s war against Ukraine does not immediately refute the liberal peace theory, we call for the critical reconsideration of the connections between peace and security concerns in the strategic and legal framing of the EU’s trade policy.

• Rabinovych, Maryna & Pintsch, Anne (2023). Sustainable Development: A Common Denominator for the EU’s Policy Towards the Eastern Partnership? The International Spectator: Italian Journal of International Affairs. ISSN 0393-2729. 58(1), p. 38–57. doi: 10.1080/03932729.2023.2165774. Show summary

  The heterogeneity of the Eastern Partnership countries’ cultures, political regimes and foreign policy aspirations has been a challenge to the EU’s formulation of a coherent umbrella policy towards the region since the 2004 enlargement. Document analysis with a focus on region-level documents and the cases of Ukraine and Azerbaijan demonstrates the EU’s tendency to shift from an emphasis on European integration and common values to the sustainable development concept in order to address this challenge. By also taking into account the context of this tendency, this analysis highlights the need to balance sustainable development, integration efforts and democratisation in the Eastern Partnership amidst increasing differentiation between target countries and geopolitical pressures.

• Rabinovych, Maryna & Gawrich, Andrea (2023). The Conflict in Eastern Ukraine and International Support for the Decentralization Reform (2014–2022): Theory-Guided Observations. East European Politics and Societies. ISSN 0888-3254. doi: 10.1177/08883254221139841. Full text in Research Archive
• Wittke, Cindy & Rabinovych, Maryna (2022). Troubled Nexuses Between International and Domestic Law in the Post-Soviet Space. Review of Central and Eastern European Law. ISSN 0925-9880. 47(3-4), p. 249–267. doi: 10.1163/15730352-47030001. Show summary

  This article serves as an introduction to the Symposium “Troubled Nexuses Between International and Domestic Law in the Post-Soviet Space”. The Symposium seeks to explore a complex interplay between international and domestic law in post-Soviet countries both before and after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 with a focus on Ukraine and Central Asia. The introduction conceptualizes the term “troubled nexus” and presents an overview of relevant country-specific discourses, policies and practices of international law. This shall offer a reader a sound theoretical and contextual basis to proceed with reading individual contributions in the Symposium.

• Rabinovych, Maryna (2022). The Interplay between Ukraine's Domestic Legislation on Conflict and Uncontrolled Territories and its Strategic Use of 'Lawfare' before Russia's 2022 Invasion of Ukraine - A Troubled Nexus? Review of Central and Eastern European Law. ISSN 0925-9880. 47(3-4), p. 268–297. doi: 10.1163/15730352-bja10070. Show summary

  Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 can be seen as a culmination of eight years of its aggression against Ukraine, including its annexation of Crimea in March 2014 and the control of the two ‘People’s Republics’ in Donbas. Before the invasion, the Ukrainian authorities had actively expressed their politico-legal stance on the conflict, using lawfare against the Russian Federation, e.g. at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), the International Court of Justice (icj), and the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea (itlos). In this context, the paper explores the interplay between Ukraine’s domestic legislation regarding the annexation of Crimea and Russia’s control of the People’s Republics in Donbas prior to the invasion, and Ukraine’s use of lawfare against Russia with a focus on policy and legal coherence. It is demonstrated that, while Ukraine’s lawfare strategy regarding Crimea had been in line with domestic legislation, Russia’s use of proxies in eastern Ukraine and the challenges of the Minsk peace process led to incoherence between Ukraine’s domestic laws and its use of lawfare. Though Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine is a game-changer, both for Ukraine’s domestic legislation and its use of lawfare, the analysis contributes to an understanding of the nexus between domestic and international law in Ukraine prior to the invasion and explores the implications such a nexus will have for Ukraine’s future lawfare against Russia, including the most recent icj case relating to the interpretation, application, and fulfillment of the 1948 Genocide Convention.

• Bescotti, Elia; Burkhardt, Fabian; Rabinovych, Maryna & Wittke, Cindy (2022). Passportization. Verfassungsblog. ISSN 2366-7044. doi: 10.17176/20220323-121238-0.. Show summary

  https://verfassungsblog.de/passportization/

• Rabinovych, Maryna & Pintsch, Anne (2022). EU External Differentiated Integration and Compliance: Theoretical and Legal Aspects. In Leruth, Benjamin; Gänzle, Stefan & Trondal, Jarle (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Differentiation in the European Union. Routledge. ISSN 978-0367149659. p. 99–115.
• Rabinovych, Maryna (2022). Informal compliance mechanisms in the EU ‘development’ and ‘integration without membership’ association agreements: a quest for capacity and ownership? Journal of Contemporary European Studies. ISSN 1478-2804. doi: 10.1080/14782804.2022.2117142. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Association Agreements between the EU and third countries lie at the heart of the EU’s foreign policy. The Association Agreements the EU concluded with Eastern Neighbours and the Caribbean Forum and Central American countries are marked with partner countries’ ambitious obligations, and the multi-instrument toolbox the EU applies to ensure partner countries’ compliance, including official consultations and dispute settlement. Nevertheless, the EU has demonstrated to prefer informal compliance instruments, such as statements or informal meetings in both the ‘integration without membership’ and ‘development’ contexts. The article focuses on the rationale behind the EU’s preference for ‘soft’ compliance instruments. It isdemonstrates that the European Commission and Delegations may in many cases prioritize partners’ commitment to and ownership of change over a particular result (compliance), despite being able to make use of the asymmetries of its power relations with partner countries. The confluence of the EU’s or Member States’ strong interest in a partner country’s compliance with a specific obligation and the persistence of non-compliance will, nonetheless, lead to the recourse to formalized compliance mechanisms. The focus on the management perspective of compliance in isolation from formal enforcement mechanisms is presented as hardly possible, notwithstanding the EU’s quest for ownership.

• Rabinovych, Maryna & Egert, Oleksandra (2022). Explaining Non-compliance in the EU Differentiated Integration: The Case of Transport and Infrastructure Obligations under the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement. Journal of Common Market Studies. ISSN 0021-9886. doi: 10.1111/jcms.13372. Show summary

  External differentiated integration constellations, such as the EU Association Agreements (AAs) with Eastern Neighbours, require third states to conduct extensive regulatory approximation with EU rules. Nevertheless, compliance in EU external differentiation remains under-researched. In this vein, the article explains (non)-compliance in EU external differentiated integration through the prism of an integrated approach to compliance that brings together the enforcement and management perspectives. The research is based on the case study of Ukraine's fulfillment of its transport- and infrastructure-related obligations under the EU-Ukraine AA. It is found that Ukraine's low compliance rates stem from an array of factors attributable to both of the applied perspectives. The study testifies to the complementarity of the enforcement and management approaches in the research of compliance in EU external differentiated integration and points out the need for the Commission to combine ‘carrots-and-sticks’ approach with consultations and capacity-building to strengthen Eastern Neighbours' compliance with AAs norms.

• Rabinovych, Maryna (2022). EU-Ukraine “deep” trade agenda: the effectiveness and impact perspectives. International Politics. ISSN 1384-5748. doi: 10.1057/s41311-022-00384-x. Show summary

  The EU-Ukraine deep and comprehensive free trade area (DCFTA) is marked by an impressive scope of regulatory approximation and market integration. Nonetheless, the performance of the DCFTA often tends to be assessed through the sole prism of changes in the volume of trade between the parties. This paper seeks to complement such an approach by an in-depth investigation of EU-DCFTA’s performance from the efectiveness and impact perspectives. It fnds that the EU-Ukraine “deep” trade agenda is marked by medium efectiveness, with the strongest concerns, attributed to corruption, weak rule of law and strong oligarchic infuence. At the same time, the DCFTA had been a strong engine for trade-related reforms (e.g. countering technical barriers to trade; public procurement; competition and state aid) in Ukraine over the period from 2014 to 2019. Yet, the reforms’ tempo slowed down after the most recent presidential elections, with numerous changes pending in the domains of transport and infrastructure, fnancial sector reform and customs reforms. Nonetheless, the EU-Ukraine DCFTA is found to exert a considerable impact on the interplay of the regulatory spaces and infuences in the regions and the role of the EU as a trade power.

• Rabinovych, Maryna (2021). Narrating Western Education as a Pathway to Change-Making: Evidence from Post- Euromaidan Ukraine. The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization. ISSN 1074-6846. 29(4), p. 473–498.
• Rabinovych, Maryna & Pintsch, Anne (2021). EU Differentiated Integration as a Tangible. Internal and External Dimensions. In Hoerber, Thomas; Weber, Gabriel & Cabras, Ignazio (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of European Integrations. Routledge. ISSN 978-0-367-20307-8. p. 376–393.
• Rabinovych, Maryna & Berg-Nordlie, Mikkel (2021). Regulating Minority Languages in Ukraine’s Educational System: Debate, Legal Framework and Implementation. In Aasland, Aadne & Kropp, Sabine (Ed.), The Accommodation of Regional and Ethno-cultural Diversity in Ukraine. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 978-3-030-80970-6. p. 83–110. Show summary

  The chapter provides a comprehensive analysis of the development of policies on minority languages in Ukraine’s educational system, and in public debate, from 1991 to the present, combining legal analysis with the analysis of media discourses. Finding high politicization of the language-in-education issue in Ukraine, it maps key trajectories for the future course of Ukraine’s policies as to language in education.

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• Rabinovych, Maryna & Pintsch, Anne (2023). Compliance Negotiations in EU External Differentiated Integration: The Case of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement.
• Rabinovych, Maryna (2023). Higher Education in Ukraine in Times of War.
• Rabinovych, Maryna & Pintsch, Anne (2023). Europa må støtte en rask seier for Ukraina. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). ISSN 0804-3116.
• Alexander, Tymczuk & Rabinovych, Maryna (2023). En manglende forståelse av Ukrainas reformarbeid. Avisa Vårt land.
• Pintsch, Anne & Rabinovych, Maryna (2023). Geopolitical and Technocratic: EU International Actorness and Russia's War Against Ukraine. Schuman Papers (Foundation Robert Schuman).
• Pintsch, Anne & Rabinovych, Maryna (2023). Keynote speech "Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: Geopolitical Europe and the New Global Order".
• Rabinovych, Maryna (2023). Ukraine’s decentralization and European integration: mutually reinforcing?
• Rabinovych, Maryna (2023). Ukraine as an EU Candidate State.
• Rabinovych, Maryna (2023). Blame Games and Claiming Credit: the Role of Proxies (Separatists) in the Minsk Peace Process (2015) and the Outbreak of Russia’s War Against Ukraine.
• Rabinovych, Maryna (2023). Promise and limits of Ukraine's gradual EU integration.
• Rabinovych, Maryna (2023). EU-Ukraine relations: The nexus between EU-enlargement and reconstructing/ revitalizing Ukraine.
• Rabinovych, Maryna (2023). EU Candidate Country Status as a Resilience-Building Tool? Insights from Ukraine’s Rule of Law Reforms during the War.
• Rabinovych, Maryna (2023). How Does the EU Rule of Law Conditionality Works in the Wartime? The Case of Ukraine as a New Enlargement Country.
• Rabinovych, Maryna (2023). EU External Differentiation as a Crisis Response and Post-War Recovery Tool? The Case of EU Response to Russia’s War against Ukraine.
• Pintsch, Anne & Rabinovych, Maryna (2023). Harnessing the Nordic-Baltic Cooperation Experience for Ukraine’s Post-War Recovery. In Flåøyen, Arne (Eds.), NordForsk Report Fast Track To Vision 2030. NordForsk. p. 127–131.
• Rabinovych, Maryna (2023). Ukraine’s Past, Present, and Future: Utopias and Dystopias.
• Rabinovych, Maryna (2023). Education and resistance: Ukrainian universities at war.
• Rabinovych, Maryna (2022). The Present and Future of Sustainable Development Goals amid the Transforming Global Order and Social Change: A Decade of Action. In Baikady, Rajendra; Sajid, S. M.; Nadesan, Varoshini; Przeperski, Jaroslaw; Rezaul, Islam & Gao, Jianguo (Ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Change. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 978-3-030-87624-1.
• Pintsch, Anne & Rabinovych, Maryna (2022). EU, Ukraine and the Eastern Partnership in War and Post-War Times: Quo Vadis?
• Rabinovych, Maryna & Shelest, Hanna (2022). EU Security Cooperation with new Candidate States: A Momentum for Differentiated Integration?
• Rabinovych, Maryna (2022). Russia's war against Ukraine: A research agenda.
• Pintsch, Anne & Rabinovych, Maryna (2022). EU External Differentiated Integration and Compliance: Theoretical and Legal Aspects.
• Rabinovych, Maryna (2022). Learning the Lessons from the Minsk Peace Process: Why Can Fragile Peace Be Dangerous? Peace News. Show summary

  https://peacenews.com/lessons-from-minsk-peace-process-why-fragile-peace-can-be-dangerous/

• Rabinovych, Maryna (2022). War and revolution in Ukraine: a European story. Democracy in Action. Show summary

  https://democracy.uia.no/war-revolution-ukraine/

• Rabinovych, Maryna (2022). The Russia-Ukraine war: A watershed moment for EU foreign policy? LSE EUROPP European Politics and Policy blog. Show summary

  https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2022/03/23/the-russia-ukraine-war-a-watershed-moment-for-eu-foreign-policy/

• Rabinovych, Maryna (2022). Ukraina vil bli EU-medlem midt under krigen med Russland. Fædrelandsvennen. ISSN 0805-3790. Show summary

  https://www.fvn.no/mening/kronikk/i/v5PRnB/ukraina-vil-bli-eu-medlem-midt-under-krigen-med-russland

• Fredriksen, Tor; Sverdljuk, Jana Bentze; Rabinovych, Maryna & Ryndyk, Oleksandr (2022). Ukraina i den akademiske blindsonen. Khrono.no. ISSN 1894-8995. Show summary

  https://khrono.no/ukraina-i-den-akademiske-blindsonen/671052

• Rabinovych, Maryna (2022). Det kan vi lære av Russlands krig mot Ukraina. Fædrelandsvennen. ISSN 0805-3790. Show summary

  https://www.fvn.no/mening/kronikk/i/WjBgwk/det-vi-kan-laere-av-russlands-krig-mot-ukraina

• Burkhardt, Fabian; Wittke, Cindy; Rabinovych, Maryna & Bescotti, Elia (2022). What Makes a Citizen? Russia's Passportization of the Donbas. Russian Analytical Digest. ISSN 1863-0421. 277, p. 2–4. Show summary

  https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/bitstream/handle/document/77780/ssoar-russanald-2022-277-burkhardt_et_al-What_Makes_a_Citizen_Russias.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y&lnkname=ssoar-russanald-2022-277-burkhardt_et_al-What_Makes_a_Citizen_Russias.pdf

• Rabinovych, Maryna (2022). How Ukraine’s Association Agreement with the EU has helped increase the country’s resilience to Russian pressure? LSE EUROPP. Show summary

  https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2022/02/13/how-ukraines-association-agreement-with-the-eu-has-helped-strengthen-the-countrys-resilience-to-russian-pressure/

• Rabinovych, Maryna & Gänzle, Stefan (2022). European Integration and War in Ukraine: A Differentiated Integration Perspective.
• Rabinovych, Maryna & Pintsch, Anne (2022). From the 2014 Annexation of Crimea to the 2022 Russian war on Ukraine: Path-Dependence and Socialization in the EU-Ukraine Relations between the Critical Junctures.
• Pintsch, Anne & Rabinovych, Maryna (2022). Compliance Negotiations and the EU Association Relations with Third Countries. The Case of Ukraine.
• Rabinovych, Maryna (2022). Timm Beichelt, Susann Worschech, eds. Transnational Ukraine? Networks and Ties That Influence(d) Contemporary Ukraine. Stuttgart: Ibidem-Verlag, 2017. Ukraina Moderna. ISSN 2078-659X. 31. doi: 10.30970/uam.2022.31.1873.
• Rabinovych, Maryna (2022). Understanding Ukraine: War, Internal Politics and External Relations. Show summary

  The lecture introduced teachers of the Kristiansand Katedralskole Gimle to complex challenges connected to Russia's war against Ukraine, Ukraine's domestic policies' evolution and its external relations amid the war.

• Rabinovych, Maryna (2022). Key narratives of the EU media systems vs Russian hybrid information warfare. Show summary

  The lecture was facilitated by the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence “Laboratories of Differentiated Integration in a Post-Brexit Europe” at the Department of Political Science and Management, University of Agder. The lecture introduced students to the peculiarities and dynamics of EU media systems and compared them to the developments pertaining to the media system in Russia amid Russia's war against Ukraine. The lecture also compared and contrasted the EU's and Russia's narratives about the war, its parties and reasons.

• Rabinovych, Maryna & Egert, Oleksandra (2022). Why Does Ukraine not Adjust to EU Transport Rules?
• Rabinovych, Maryna & Pintsch, Anne (2022). From the 2014 Annexation of Crimea to the 2022 Russia-Ukraine War: Association, Resilience and Socialization in the EU-Ukraine Relations between the Critical Junctures.
• Rabinovych, Maryna & Pintsch, Anne (2022). Sustainable Development: A Common Denominator for the EU’s Policy towards the Eastern Partnership?
• Pintsch, Anne & Rabinovych, Maryna (2022). Revisiting Compliance Negotiations: The EU Association Relations with Ukraine.
• Rabinovych, Maryna & Berg-Nordlie, Mikkel (2021). Regulating Minority Languages in Ukraine’s Educational System: Debate, Legal Framework and Implementation. In Aasland, Aadne & Kropp, Sabine (Ed.), The Accommodation of Regional and Ethno-cultural Diversity in Ukraine. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 978-3-030-80970-6. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-80971-3_4. Show summary

  The book offers new insights into how ethnicity, language and regional-local identity interact within the context of Ukrainian political reform, and indicates how these reforms affect social cohesion among ethno-cultural groups. While the individual chapters each focus on one or a few facets of the overall research question, together they draw a nuanced picture of the multifaceted challenges to creating and consolidating social cohesion in a nationalizing state. The concept integrates various disciplines, including political science, international relations, law, and sociology. Correspondingly, the contributions are based on various methodological approaches, ranging from legal analysis over media discourse analysis, individual and focus group interviews to analysis of data from a representative population survey. The findings of the in-depth study are discussed within the broader context of comparative research on diversity management and social cohesion in fragmented societies.

• Burkhardt, Fabian; Rabinovych, Maryna; Wittke, Cindy & Bescotti, Elia (2021). PASSPORTIZATION, DIMINISHED CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS, AND THE DONBAS VOTE IN RUSSIA’S 2021 DUMA ELECTIONS. Ukrainian research institute of harvard university.

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