Teaching IR in Wartime: Experiences of University Lecturers During Russia's Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine

The ongoing Russian war against Ukraine has brought many new challenges to the teaching of international relations (IR). Ukrainian and international universities have had to rethink their curricula and pedagogies, both content- and format-wise, to adapt to new realities. The new challenges varied greatly, from delivering lectures from the bomb shelter or even from the frontline to rethinking of the IR curricula across the field.

This volume explores the experiences of Ukrainian and non-Ukrainian academics who have taught IR courses during the Russian war against Ukraine and covers a wide range of issues, from enabling resilience during work within Ukraine to embracing the psychological effects of the war on teaching and learning to the amendment of course syllabi.

Author: Kateryna Zarembo
Publisher: Ibidem Press
Published: 12/02/2024
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9783838219547

About the Author

Kateryna Zarembo (Edited by)
Dr Kateryna Zarembo studied English and Italian as well as European politics and international relations at Kyiv and Dublin. She is an Associate Fellow of the New Europe Center and currently a guest researcher at the Technical University of Darmstadt as well as non-residential fellow at the Central European University in Vienna. Her articles have appeared in, among other outlets, European Societies, Problems of Post-Communism, European Security, and the Kyiv-Mohyla Law and Politics Journal.

Michele Knodt (Edited by)
Dr Michele Knodt studied political science in TU Darmstadt and did her PhD as well as Habilitation in Political Science in the University of Mannheim. She is Professor of Political Science, Jean Monnet Chair (ad personam) and Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence 'EU in Global Dialogue' (CEDI), Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence 'EU@School', leader of the COST Action 17119 'EU Foreign Policy facing new Realities (ENTER), Co-leader of the LOEWE Centre of Excellence 'emergenCITY', and Co-leader of the DFG Research Training Group 'Critical Infrastructures'. She serves as Research Area Leader of the Cluster Project 'Clean Circles' and Research Area Leader in the Kopernikus Project 'Ariadne - Evidence-Based Assessment for the Design of the German Energy System Transformation' and leader of smaller cooperative and interdisciplinary projects. She has published widely on EU multi-level governance, is especially interested in resilience and emergency topics as well as energy and climate governance and has received research grants from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi), the German Research Council (DFG), the Volkswagen Foundation and the European Commission.

Maksym Yakovlyev (Edited by)
Dr Maksym Yakovlyev studied social work and comparative political science at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA, Ukraine). He is the head of International Relations Department at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA) and the director of the School for Policy Analysis at NaUKMA, a Kyiv-based university-affiliated think tank. For almost 11 years he coordinated the double diploma MA project "German and European Studies" between the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena (Germany) and NaUKMA. He published widely on research methodology and epistemology, political concepts and he frequently comments on international affairs for the Ukrainian and international media. Maksym Yakovlyev is also member of the Public Council at Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.