Researcher/Editor

Areas of research
Russian domestic and foreign policy, Ukraine’s domestic and foreign policy, EU, NATO, transition processes in Eastern Europe, international relations, energy geopolitics, Political Psychology

Contact
CORE
Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy
Beim Schlump 83
20144 Hamburg
Phone: (+49) 40-866077-62

Curriculum vitae
Elena Kropatcheva was born in Izhevsk, Russia. In 1995-1996 she was a "Freedom Support Act" scholarship holder and studied in the USA. In 2001 she graduated from the Udmurt State University, Russia; in 2002 from Central European University, Budapest, with MA in International Relations and European Studies; and in 2003 from Institute for Peace Research and Security Studies (IFSH) with MA in Peace Research and Security Studies. In 2009 Elena Kropatcheva successfully finished her PhD on the subject of “Russia’s Ukraine Policy against the Background of Russian-Western Competition.” She also worked as an intern at the Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, Hamburg. Elena Kropatcheva is a member of Russian-German Society in Hamburg and of British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies? (BASEES)..

Current project
Russia and International Organizations

Languages
English, French, German, Russian

Selected Publications

• Russia and the Role of the OSCE in European Security: a ‘Forum’ for Dialogue or a ‘Battlefield’ of Interests?, European Security (in press).
• Russian Foreign Policy in the Realm of European Security through the Lens of Neoclassical Realism, Journal of Eurasian Studies, 3 (1), 2011/2012 (in press).
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• Presidential Elections in Belarus in 2010: the Winner Takes It All?, in: IFSH (ed.), OSCE Yearbook 2011, Baden-Baden 2012 (in press).
• Ukraine’s Foreign Policy Choices after the 2010 Presidential Election?, Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics 2011, 27(3-4), pp. 553-573.
• Russia´s Ukraine Policy Against the Background of Russian-Western Competition (2010). Nomos (Demokratie, Sicherheit, Frieden, Bd. 201).
• Playing both Ends against the Middle: Russia´s Geopolitical Energy Games with the EU and Ukraine, in: Geopolitics, 2011, 16 (3), pp. 553-573.
• Predislovie [Foreword], in: Nadlezhashee upravlenie v svetskih gosudarstvah s bolshinstvom musulmanskogo naseleniya [Good Governance in Secular States with the Muslim Majority], Bishkek 2010.
• "Umom Rossiyu ne ponyat?" (Ne-)predskazuemost rossiyskoy vneshney politiki ["One cannot understand Russia with the mind?" The (un-)predictability of Russian foreign policy] in: Internet Journal Alleuropa.ru, N10 (37), 2009. Link
• Russia's Response to Georgia's Military Operation in South Ossetia, in: IFSH (ed.), OSCE Yearbook 2008, Baden-Baden 2009, pp. 45-62.
• Russian-NATO Relations after the Crisis in South Ossetia in 2008, in: Sicherheit & Frieden (Security and Peace) (1), 2009, pp. 36-40. Link
• Ukraine's national elections and the role of the EU integration in: Rafal Riedel(ed.), Before and After Accession? Ukraine and Poland in Integrating Europe, University of Opole Publications, 2008, pp. 148-171.
  Der georgisch-russische Krieg 2008 und die Folgen, in: IFSH (ed.), Hamburger Informationen zur Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik, Heft 44, with Regina Heller, Marietta Koenig, Reinhard Mutz, Ursel Schlichting, and Wolfgang Zellner.
• Predislovie [Foreword], in: Kazakhstanskii Institut Strategicheskikh Issledovanii [Kazakhstan Institut für Strategische Studien] (KISI) (ed.), Sekularism i islam v sovremennom gosudarstve: chto ikh ob?edinyaet? Mat-li mezhdunar. kruglogo stola [Secularism and Islam in the Modern State: What Unites them? Materials of the International Workshop] (Almaty, 30 November), Almaty 2008, pp. 9-14.
• Russland-initiierte Integrationsstrukturen in der GUS-Region: Zukunftsfähig oder zum Scheitern verurteilt? Kölner Forum für Internationale Beziehungen und Sicherheitspolitik e. V. (KFIBS), 2008. Link
• Ukraine´s National Elections and the Role of EU Integration, in: R. Riedel (Ed.), Before and After Accession. Ukraine and Poland in Integrating Europe, University of Opole Publications, 2008 (forthcoming), pp. 148-171.
• Neue Herausforderungen für die russische Zentralasienpolitik, in: Russlandanalysen, Nr. 95, Forschungsstelle Osteuropa, Bremen 2006, (co-authored with Anna Kreikemeyer). Link
• Perspektiven der Integrationsmodelle Russlands, in: Forschungsstelle Osteuropa, Integration und Ausgrenzung im Osten Europas. Beiträge für die 13. Tagung junger Osteuropa-Experten, veranstaltet von der Forschungsstelle Osteuropa an der Universität Bremen, dem Osteuropa-Institut der Freien Universität Berlin und der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde (Arbeitspapiere und Materialien, No. 70), Berlin 2005, pp. 8-12.

Conference presentations

• Russia's OSCE Policy and the Role of the OSCE in the European Security, BISA Working Group on Russian and Eurasian Security, London, June 2011.
• Russia's Captivity to its Psychological Complexes, BASEES Annual Conference 2011, April, Cambridge.
• The Perception of Russia´s Policy in the Area of the European Security in the West, Panel “Security: the National, Regional, International and Global Dimensions. Acute problems of arms control and non-dissemination of WMD,” the VI Russian International Studies Association (RISA) Convention, the MGIMO University, September 2010.
• Russia's Policy within and in Relation to European and Euro-Atlantic Institutions: Patterns of (In-)Consistence, Panel “Russia’s Relations with the West: New Views on an old Theme,” VIII World Congress of the International Council for Central and East European Studies (ICCEES), Stockholm, Schweden, July 2010
• Ukraine’s Foreign Policy Choices and Financial Crisis, Workshop “Eastern Europe and the Crisis,” Department of Politics, UniversitätGlasgow, UK, May 2010.
• "Ukraine's Foreign Policy Choices after Presidential Elections in 2010," presented at the conference "The International Crisis and the Post-Soviet States" at the University of Glasgow on 13-14 May 2010.
• "Gas Relations between Russia, the EU and Ukraine through the Prism of IR Theories," Department of Political Science, University of Maastricht, the Netherlands, 2009.
• “Transit of Russia’s Energy to the EU via Ukraine: Conflict and Cooperation” at the UACES Workshop: Security of Energy Supply in the New Europe – A Challenge for the European Neighbourhood Policy, Glasgow University, 19-20 September 2007.
• "Russia or the EU? Ukraine Caught between Two Poles," the ICCEES Regional Congress “Transcending Europe's Borders: The EU and its Neighbours," 2-4 August 2007, Humboldt University in Berlin.
• “Ukraine in search of a balance: the (in-)compatibility of its Western aspirations with close relations with Russia” at the International Graduate Student Symposium „New Perspectives on Contemporary Ukraine: Politics, History and Culture,” organized by CERES, Toronto University on 17-19 March 2006. Link
• “Ukraine as a Source of Competition between Russia and the West,” at the ECPR 1st Graduate Student Conference on Contentious Politics, Essex University, 7-9 September 2006. Link
• “Russian Foreign Policy towards Ukraine: a Case of New Imperialism?” at the Annual International Young Researchers Conference “Eurasian Empire: Literature, Historical, and Political Responses to Russian Rule in the Twentieth Century” at the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies, Miami University, 26-28 October 2006.

• Rule of Law in Ukraine and Russia. A Comparative Analysis, Workshop, jointly conducted by CORE and German Federal Foreign Office, OSCE, Vienna, March 2010.
• "Russia and the EU: Energy Geopolitics" in the framework of a seminar "Russia, Poland and Europe - Opponents or Partners?, organized by German-Polish society in Hannover, 17 April 2010.
• Ukraine as a Source of Competition between Russia and the West" im Rahmen des Forschungskolloquiums an der Universitaet Hannover zum Thema des Ost-West Konfliktes, 10. November 2009.
• Die Perspektiven für eine euroatlantische Sicherheitsarchitektur unter Einbeziehung Russlands, Vortrag im Rahmen des Treffens der aussenpolitischen Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaften von Buendnis 90/Die Gruenen, am 25. April 2009.
• Teilnahme als Referentin am Stadtgespräch von Manuel Sarrazin MdB, Mitglied im Europaausschuss des Bundestags, "Russland und die Ukraine streiten ums Gas? die EU schaut in die Röhre?" am 19. Februar 2009.
• Russland und die Putinjahre, Onlineseminar 19.-21.8.2008 "Die ersten 100 Tage des neuen russischen Präsidenten," durchgefuehrt von der Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für Freiheit.
• „Russland in den Augen der Russen,“ Deutsch-Russische Gesellschaft, Hamburg, April 2008.
• „Scherben des Großimperiums? Russische Interessen in der Ukraine, Weißrussland und Moldau,“ Seminar der Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für Freiheit „Europas Hinterhof? Die Ukraine, Weißrussland und Moldau im Zuge der EU-Osterweiterung: Chancen und Risiken,“14. Januar 2005, Gummersbach.
• „Russisch-ukrainische Beziehungen: ein neuer Anfang?“ im Rahmen der Veranstaltung der Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung in Hamburg, 27. Januar 2005, Hamburg.