Ukraine’s Thorny Path to the EU From “Integration without Membership” to “Integration through War”

This interdisciplinary book takes stock of Ukraine’s thorny European integration path in the last two decades. Engaging many Ukrainian academics and practitioners, the book seeks to offer a first-hand insight into how Ukraine moves towards EU membership, while in war with Russia, and which ‘stumbling blocks’ it encounters. 

Chapter 1. Introduction. Ukraine’s Thorny Path to the EU - From “Integration without Membership” to “Integration through War”.- Chapter 2. War and Boundary Formation: The Russo-Ukrainian War and European Integration.- Chapter 3. Integration and Modernisation: EU’s Association Agreement with Ukraine.- Chapter 4. Revisiting the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement: A Crucial Instrument on the Road to Membership.- Chapter 5. Collective Protection for Ukrainians in the EU: Laws, Practices and Implications for EU and Ukrainian policies.- Chapter 6. “Europe is not Doing Enough”. Risks of Ukraine’s Post-War Euroscepticism.- Part 2. Sectoral dynamics and challenges of Ukraine’s integration process. Chapter 7. European Integration, and Democracy and Human Rights Reforms in Ukraine in the Wartime.- Chapter 8. Legal Aspects of EU-Ukraine Bilateral Trade Relations During the Full-Scale War:  More Trade Liberalisation, but Under Conditions.- Chapter 9. Harmonisation with the EU Acquis amid the Resistance to Russian Aggression as a Catalyst of Ukrainian Copyright Recovery.- Chapter 10. Ukraine’s Compliance with Norms of Environmental Democracy: Between Wartime Restrictions, EU Standards, and Green Reconstruction.- Chapter 11. Europeanisation of Ukraine’s Policy on Environment and Climate: Instrumental and Anticipatory Compliance.- Chapter 12. Higher Education amid the War: A Resilience Test for Ukraine’s Integration into the European Higher Education Area.- Chapter 13. Conclusions.

Maryna Rabinovych is Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Department of Political Science and Management, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway.

Anne Pintsch is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science and Management, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway.