Russia’s war in Ukraine and transformation of EU public diplomacy: challenges and opportunities
Journal: Journal of European Integration
Year: 2023

ABSTRACTEmploying a perceptual approach to EU foreign policy studies, we argue that extensive changes following the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 have created important opportunities for diminishing many of the perceptual gaps that existed between the EU and Ukraine following the annexation of Crimea. We distinguish between changes in Ukraine's and the EU's attitudes towards each other, contextual changes as a result of the war and changes in EU policy on the candidacy