Change and continuity in the EU's 'state building-security nexus' in Ukraine. A historical institutional perspective
Journal: EURINT
Year: 2024

While the 2014 Annexation of Crimea has been presented by the scholarly literature as leading only to an incremental change in the state-building and foreign policy practices of the EU towards Ukraine, the 2022 invasion of the Russian Federation has been assessed as a critical juncture that has finally turned the EU into a geopolitical actor. The research question that my presentation seeks to answer to is whether the dynamic of the EU's 'state-building security nexus' in Ukraine could be looked