Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Social Sciences, UiT The Artic University of Norway
E-mail: maryna.rabinovych@uit.no
ABOUT
Maryna Rabinovych is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Social Sciences, UiT The Artic University of Norway. She works on a research project “Multistakeholder partnerships for adaptive governance in turbulent Arctic Norway? Tackling the consequences of Russia’s war against Ukraine and learning from the wartime experiences of Ukrainian municipalities (MULTIGOV)”. Previously, she worked with the Research Council of Norway-funded project “Lowering the Bar? Compliance Negotiations and the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement” at the University of Agder. She also has the experience of working with Kyiv School of Economics, National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” and University of Hamburg. Her research interests include EU external relations, EU Neighbourhood Policy, EU trade and development policies, as well as internal political and legal developments in the post-Soviet space. In 2025, she co-edited the volume “Ukraine’s Thorny Path to the EU. From “Integration without Membership” to “Integration through War”’ with Dr. Anne Pintsch (Palgrave McMillan).
RESEARCH INTERESTS
EU external relations, Ukraine’s European integration, decentralization and resilience, municipal governance in the Arctic
WEB-PAGE
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS ON UKRAINE
- Rabinovych, M. (2025). EU external differentiated integration as a crisis response tool? Evidence from Ukraine. West European Politics 48(5), 1216-1241. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2024.2401246
- Rabinovych, M. and Pintsch, A. (eds) (2025). Ukraine’s Thorny Path to the EU. From “Integration without Membership” to “Integration through War”. Cham: Palgrave McMillan. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-69154-6
- Rabinovych, M., Brik, T., Piddubnyi, I., Darkovich, A., Savisko, M., Hatsko, V. and Tytiuk, S. (2024). Predicting budget robustness of Ukrainian local self-government during Russia’s war against Ukraine. East European Politics. Online First. https://doi.org/10.1080/21599165.2024.2435817
- Rabinovych, M. and Pintsch, A. (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. Online First. https://doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2024.2407091
- Rabinovych, M. and Egert, O. (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. Online first. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13372
- Shelest, H and Rabinovych, M. (eds) (2020). Regional diversity, decentralization and conflict in Ukraine. Basingstoke: Palgrave McMillan.
- Rabinovych, M. (2019). EU’s development policy vis-à-vis Ukraine after the Euromaidan: securitization, state-building and integration. East European Politics 35(3), 332-350.
PROJECTS
- Lowering the bar? – Compliance Negotiations and the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement
Alternativ tittel: Senke standarden? – Forhandlinger om etterfølgelse av regler og EUs samarbeidsavtale med Ukraina
Project website: https://eu-ukraine.uia.no/