
ABOUT
Anne Pintsch is an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science and Management, University of Agder. She is also the coordinator of the HROMADA network and head of a project funded by the Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills, which aims to increase knowledge about Ukraine in Norway. Anne holds a PhD from ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Previous positions include interim professor for empirical democracy research at the University of Mannheim, project director at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), and a post-doc at Ghent University, Belgium.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
European Union-Ukraine relations, reforms in Ukraine, external democracy promotion, democratization and autocratization, international organizations.
WEB-PAGE
https://www.uia.no/en/kk/profile/annepi
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS ON UKRAINE
- Fyshchuk, Iryna & Anne Pintsch. 2025. “Cyber-Attacks in Ukraine: Coping With the Challenges at the Local Level in 2022–2024”. Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy 16(3). https://doi.org/10.1002/rhc3.70025
- Rabinovych, Maryna & Anne Pintsch, 2025. “Ukraine’s Thorny Path to the EU. From ‘Integration without Membership’ to ‘Integration through War‘”, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Rabinovych, Maryna & Anne Pintsch. 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 62(5), 1239–1259.
- Rabinovych, Maryna & Anne Pintsch. 2024. “Political conditionality as an EU Foreign Policy and Crisis Management Tool. The Case of EU Wartime Political Conditionality vis-à-vis Ukraine”. Journal of European Integration 47(4), 491-512.
- Pintsch, Anne. 2020. “Decentralization in Ukraine and ‘Bottom-up’ European Integration?” In Regional Diversity, Decentralization and Conflict in Ukraine, edited by Shelest, Hanna, & Maryna Rabinovych, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 339-363.
PROJECTS
- Competence Development on Ukraine’s European Future. Funding source: Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills (UA-KOMP). Project duration: 2026-2027.
- HROMADA – Nordic-Baltic Knowledge Network for the Rebuilding of Ukraine. Funding Source: Nordic Council of Ministers/NordForsk. Project duration: 2025-2026.
- Lowering the Bar? – Compliance Negotiations and the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement Funding source: The Research Council of Norway. Project duration: 2021-2024. https://prosjektbanken.forskningsradet.no/en/project/FORISS/315777
