Nadiia Koval is a foreign and security policy analyst, currently heading the department of Research, Analytics, and Academic Programmes at the Ukrainian Institute, the key cultural diplomacy institution of Ukraine. She is also a lecturer in European integration in Kyiv School of Economics. Previously she occupied different positions in Foreign Policy Council “Ukrainian Prism”, Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine, National Institute for Strategic Studies and the Ukrainian Institute for the Future. In the recent years her research has focused on the knowledge and the perception of Ukraine and Ukrainian culture abroad, including current state of Ukrainian and Eastern European studies worldwide; the discourses and interpretations of the causes and consequences of the Russian-Ukrainian war in the intellectual circles of the different Western countries; the political usage of culture by Russian state institutions.
Selected publications:
- Nadiia Koval, Oleksandra Gaidai, Mariia Protsiuk, Mariia Melnyk, Denys Tereshchenko, Maryna Irysova. Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar Studies in the World: Problems, Needs, Perspectives. Ukrainian Institute, 2022.
- Nadiia Koval, Maryna Irysova, Serhii Tytiuk, Denys Tereshchenko. Rossotrudnichestvo: The Unbearable Harshness of Soft Power. Ukrainian Institute, 2022.
- Yulia Masiyenko, Kateryna Zahryvenko, Nadiia Koval, Denys Tereshchenko. “The Russian flag will be flown wherever Russian is spoken”: “Russkiy Mir” Foundation. Ukrainian Institute, 2022.
- Nadiia Koval, Volodymyr Kulyk, Mykola Riabchuk, Kateryna Zarembo & Marianna Fakhurdinova (2022). “Morphological Analysis of Narratives of the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict in Western Academia and Think-Tank Community”, Problems of Post-Communism, DOI: 10.1080/10758216.2021.2009348
- Nadiia Koval. “Russia as an Alternative Security Provider: The Greek Perspective on the “Ukraine Crisis” The Ideology and Politics Journal “EU Member States’ National Perspectives on the “Ukraine Crisis”, Issue 1(7), 2017, p. 131-167
- Nadiia Koval. “Three Faces of Federalism in the Foreign Policy: Russian and German Approaches to the Ukraine Crisis”, in Decentralization, Regional Diversity, and Conflict: The Case of Ukraine, ed. by H. Shelest and M. Rabinovych, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, p. 187-210