Academic
Academic publications
Dissertation, peer-reviewed articles, scholarly yearbooks and academic lectures.
Academic profiles: ORCID Academia.edu
Dissertation
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2019
The EU's Eastern Partnership initiative (candidate of political sciences dissertation)
Ivan Nagornyak. Institute of International Relations, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Degree: Candidate of Political Sciences (PhD equivalent). The exact dissertation title should be confirmed and added.
Dissertation on the institutional foundations, objectives and reform prospects of the EU's Eastern Partnership initiative, defended in 2019.
Journal article
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2017
The EU's 'Eastern Partnership' initiative: institutional bases, objectives and prospects for change
Ivan Nagornyak. Scientific Notes of the I. F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Issue 2(88), March-April 2017, pp. 346-365.
Analyses the institutional foundations and operating principles of the Eastern Partnership to explain its successes and failures and to propose improvements to EU policy in the eastern neighbourhood.
Yearbook article
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2021
Ukrainian diplomacy and the EU: beyond association
Ivan Nagornyak. Ukraina Dyplomatychna (Diplomatic Ukraine), scholarly yearbook. Issue XXII, 2021, pp. 621-634. ISSN 2707-7683.
Reviews EU-Ukraine political dialogue from June 2019 to April 2021, how leadership changes on both sides affected relations, and what agenda lies beyond the Association Agreement.
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2019
Ten years of the Eastern Partnership: scenarios for the initiative and EU policy in the eastern neighbourhood
Ivan Nagornyak. Ukraina Dyplomatychna (Diplomatic Ukraine), scholarly yearbook. Issue XX, 2019, pp. 655-662. ISSN 2707-7683.
Argues that after ten years the Eastern Partnership's structure limits its usefulness for membership-seeking countries and proposes sectoral and social integration as the way to sustain reform momentum.
Paper
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2014
The institutional aspect of the European Neighbourhood Policy towards the EU's eastern neighbours, 2004-2009
Ivan Nagornyak. Paper (venue to be confirmed); Academia.edu. Written as a postgraduate researcher at the Department of International Relations, Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University. Year approximate.
Examines the conceptual and institutional design of the European Neighbourhood Policy towards the EU's eastern neighbours in 2004-2009 and assesses implementation outcomes.
Lecture
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2026
The Challenges of Studying Ukraine's EU Integration (opening lecture, with László Bruszt)
László Bruszt, Ivan Nagornyak. CEU Democracy Institute, Invisible University for Ukraine doctoral research seminar 'EU Enlargement and Transformation in Times of Crisis'. 30 March 2026, online. Video recording available on YouTube.
Argues that standard enlargement analysis neglects the distributional effects of implementing the acquis and sketches governance alternatives for the political economy of enlargement.