The Jean Monnet Chair in EU External Relations at Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada) welcomes Dr. Anastassia Obydenkova as a visiting scholar for the period June 1-28. Dr. Obydenkova is co-teaching with Prof. Crina Viju-Miljusevic a graduate course on comparative regionalism. She will also hold a public lecture on June 20 with the title: “From Authoritarian to Environmental Regionalism: the role of Regional International Organizations in Eurasia.”
Anastassia Obydenkova is a Research Scientist at the Institute for Economic Analysis of the Spanish National Research Council (IAE-CSIC) and affiliated Professor at Barcelona School of Economics. She holds a PhD in Political and Social Science from the European University Institute in Florence (Italy) and MA from the Central European University (Budapest-Vienna). She held multiple teaching and research appointments around the world, at Harvard University, Zurich University, Uppsala University, Gonzaga University in Florence, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Barcelona Institute for International Studies, St. Louse University in Madrid, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, and MacMillan Center at Yale University.
Dr. Obydenkova expertise are in comparative politics and international relations with a focus on geopolitical competition, regional international organizations, global environmental politics and sustainable development, regionalism, democratization, historical legacies, post-Communism, with area-focus on Eurasia and China. Her work on these topics had been published in such journals as European Journal of Political Research, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, World Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Post-Soviet Affairs, Review of International Organizations, Intelligence, Environmental Research, Democratization, and Journal of Democracy, etc. She is a (co-) author and editor of twelve books and special issues with the most recent ones published by Oxford University Press (2019), Routledge (2015; 2023; 2024) and Cambridge University Press (2021). She welcomes PhD students working on the related research topics. Her complete list of publications can be found here.
The Jean Monnet Chair in EU External Relations: Competing Regionalism in Eurasia supports teaching, public and policy debates, and dissemination of resources on the EU as a foreign policy actor, the EU’s sponsored policies within the Eurasian region and the EU-China relations.
The Chair is co-funded with a grant from the European Union Erasmus+ Programme for Education, Training, Youth and Sport and by Carleton University.