Dr. Alina Nychyk

Work at ZHAW

Position

Senior Researcher

Focus

• Ukraine
• European Union
• Russian-Ukrainian war
• EU-Ukraine integration
• European security
• European Union's foreign policy

Teaching

• Doing Business in Europe
• Focal Points in Current Affairs
• European Affairs

Experience

• Visiting Lecturer
  TU Dresden
  04 / 2025 - today
• Postdoctoral Researcher
  ETH Zürich
  09 / 2023 - 08 / 2024
• Honorary Research Fellow
  The University of Manchester
  07 / 2022 - 07 / 2023
• Ukraine Fellow
  Research Center for the History of Transformations , Vienna University
  09 / 2022 - 12 / 2022
• Teaching Assistant
  The University of Manchester
  02 / 2022 - 06 / 2022
• Blue Book Trainee
  European Commission (OLAF)
  04 / 2017 - 07 / 2017

Education and Continuing education

Education

• PhD / Politics
  The University of Manchester
  09 / 2018 - 06 / 2022
• Master’s Degree / International Economic Relations
  Wroclaw University of Economics
  10 / 2012 - 06 / 2014
• Bachelor’s Degree with honours / International Economics
  Kyiv National Economic Univers ity named after Vadym Hetman
  09 / 2008 - 06 / 2012

Network

Membership of networks

Professional Government Association of Ukraine

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-1634-4065

Social media

• Twitter
• LinkedIn
• Web-site

Media presence

• Is Switzerland a reliable security partner for Europe?
• Neutrality: when it works and when it does not. The cases of Switzerland and Ukraine
• Corruption en Ukraine : Volodymyr Zelensky sème le trouble
• Ukraine blows up Russian supply bridge using new tactics | Frontline
• As Russia Loses the Conventional war will it Escalate and Turn to Terror Attacks

Projects

• Is the EU a security provider in Europe in 2025? The EU’s new foreign policy towards peace in Ukraine in challenging circumstances / Project leader / ongoing
• The new era of Ukraine’s foreign policy towards the EU / Deputy project leader / completed

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

Nychyk, A., & D’Anieri, P. (2025). Ukrainian public opinion and the path to peace with Russia. East European Politics. https://doi.org/10.1080/21599165.2025.2538481

Other publications

• The Geopolitical Chess Game: Ukraine’s Interactions with the EU and Russia at the Onset of the War in Donbas
• Ukraine’s Strategic Interactions with the EU and Russia during the Turbulent Month of the Crimean Annexation
• Ukraine Vis-à-Vis Russia and the EU: Misperceptions of Foreign Challenges in Times of War, 2014–2015
• International response to Russian aggression against Ukraine
• The conflict in Ukraine as a threat for the European Union's integrity
• Konflikt na Ukrainie jako zagrożenie dla integralności Unii Europejskiej
• The New Cold War: Populist game or modern reality?
• European enlargement as the way for EU to compete in the modern world
• The necessity of global governance in the contemporary rapidly changing world
• Problem rozszerzenia Unii Europejskiej na przykładzie Ukrainy

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