PARTICIPATION OF THE INSTITUTE’S RESEARCH FELLOW IN THE INTERNATIONAL ECPR CEESP 2026 CONFERENCE IN ROMANIA
Anastasiia Dehterenko, PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, and Research Fellow at the Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, participated in the international Conference of the Standing Group on Central and East European Politics (CEESP), ECPR 2026, held on 21–22 May 2026 at Babeș-Bolyai University (Romania).
The conference was organized by the Standing Group on Central and East European Politics of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) and brought together scholars from across Europe working in the fields of political science, democracy studies, international relations, security studies, and political transformations in Central and Eastern Europe.
As part of the panel “Dynamics between Russia and Ukraine”, Anastasiia Dehterenko presented her paper: “From Resilience to Antifragility: Ethnopolitical Governance in Wartime Ukraine”.
The paper examines the transformation of Ukrainian society and the system of ethnopolitical governance under conditions of full-scale war. Particular attention was devoted to the concept of antifragility, which allows Ukraine to be understood not only as a state enduring crisis, but also as a system capable of adapting, transforming, and strengthening its institutional and societal resilience under conditions of extreme pressure.
The presentation addressed:
- transformations in local governance during wartime;
- the role of territorial communities in ensuring resilience;
- the influence of ethnic and cultural diversity on adaptive governance mechanisms;
- emerging forms of solidarity and institutional practices under crisis conditions;
- prospects for rethinking the concept of resilience in contemporary political science.
Special attention was devoted to the case of Northern Pryazovya in Ukraine and to the experience of Ukrainian communities operating under constant security pressure.
Anastasiia Dehterenko’s participation in the conference was made possible through the support of the Ukrainian Women’s Fund in cooperation with the Ukrainian Resilient Development Academy, which contributes to strengthening the presence of Ukrainian academic voices in the international scholarly community.
The conference provided an important platform for presenting Ukrainian scholarly perspectives within the international academic environment and for fostering further cooperation with European research networks in the field of political and ethnic studies.