L’opposition biélorusse en exile. L’influence de la reconnaissance par l’Occident.
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Ekaterina Pierson-Lyzhina est chercheuse en relations internationales. Elle est titulaire d’un doctorat en sciences politiques de l’Université libre de Bruxelles (2020), où elle a tenu plusieurs séminaires de sciences politiques ainsi que deux cours (« EU Eastern Neighborhood » et « Introduction to Political Science ») en tant que professeur suppléant. Ses recherches actuelles portent sur les différents aspects de la reconnaissance par l’Occident des groupes d’opposition étrangers (construction d’alliances, stratégies de résistance violente, relations avec les États hôtes/parrains). En 2022-23, elle a participé au projet BIELEXIL « Les exilés biélorusses en Europe centrale et orientale », porté par le Cefres, Prague et financé par l’Institut Convergences Migrations, France.
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Education
2020: PhD in Political Science, Université libre de Bruxelles, Thesis (in French): “Belarusian foreign policy towards the EU (1994 – 2020): oscillations of a multi-vector diplomacy” (under direction of Aude Merlin)
Earlier, I obtained my bachelor’s degree in international relations from the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia and my master’s degree in political science from the Université libre de Bruxelles.
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
« Belarus’s oscillating foreign policy towards the EU: from engagement to retrenchment (1994-2021), » Canadian Slavonic Papers 63(3-4), 2021, pp. 338-57.
« Actors of Belarusian ‘Multivector’ Foreign Policy towards the EU in the 2010s, » The Journal of Belarusian Studies 11(1), 2021, pp. 56-86.
Think-tank contributions
Research on sustainable development in Eastern Partnership for the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum:
Eastern Partnership Index 2022-23 (under review).
Eastern Partnership Index 2020-21. Charting Performance in the Eastern Partnership: Democracy and Good Governance, Policy Convergence and Sustainable Development, https://eap-csf.eu/wp-content/uploads/EaP-Index-2020-2021.pdf
Research in 2020-2021 on political effects of Covid-19 in the former USSR for The Eurasian States in Transition Research Center (EAST Center), Poland:
“‘Vaccine diplomacy’ targeted at Eastern Partnership countries”, 1 June 2021, pp. 1-8. https://east-center.org/vaccine-diplomacy-targeted-at-eastern-partnership-countries/
with Kovalenko, O., Saralidze, L., “Government communication and public resilience to propaganda during COVID-19 in Belarus, Georgia, and Ukraine”, 25 Jan. 2021, pp. 1-23.
with Kovalenko, O., “The coronavirus outbreak in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine: Responses by the state, business and civil society”, 28 Oct. 2020. https://east-center.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/The-coronavirus-outbreak-BLR-RU-UKR.pdf