[Aaus-list] CfA: Associate Fellowships at Kyiv’s Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation (IEAC)

[Andreas Umland]

Call for Applications to become an IEAC Associate Fellow
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The Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation (IEAC) is a small, independent
Ukrainian think-tank founded in 2001 by Ukraine’s former Minister of
Foreign Affairs Borys Tarasiuk, and located in the city center of Kyiv. The
IEAC conducts research and advocacy projects promoting liberal democracy
and the rule of law, supporting security sector reforms, and strengthening
civil society. Our primary topics of interest include international
relations, foreign policy, European security and national defense. IEAC
activities include the development of policy recommendations, provision of
independent policy assessments, reports and statements, public advocacy
campaigns, holding international conferences, seminars and roundtables,
organizing study trips and workshops, etc. Our researchers are participants
of, among other initiatives, the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum,
and members of consultative public councils, for instance, at the Ukrainian
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Supreme Council (national parliament), as
well as the EU-Ukraine Cooperation Committee. We cooperate with various
mass media and are frequently printed or quoted in national as well as
foreign outlets. Our experts publish analytical reports, policy papers,
political commentaries, op-eds, blogs etc. The IEAC has established and
maintains relations with various Ukrainian and foreign institutions and
programs, such as the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, International Renaissance
Foundation, Robert Schuman Foundation, NATO Information and Documentation
Center and NATO Liaison Office at Kyiv, etc. The IEAC frequently
communicates with foreign embassies, international organizations, related
think-tanks, etc.

In 2015, the IEAC is starting a new campaign to extend its reach and impact
by way of publicly affiliating itself to a number of like-minded and
otherwise suitable junior or senior specialists across the world. Selected
experts will be offered the titles of either IEAC “Associate Research
Fellows” (pozashtatni eksperty), if from Ukraine, or IEAC “Non-Resident
Research Fellows” (pozashtatni zakordonni eksperty), if from abroad. We
will not make formal appointments, but are seeking informal, yet official
affiliations with like-minded researchers. Our new scholars will be able to
- present themselves as IEAC Non-Resident or Associate Research Fellows, on
public fora, such as mass media, conferences, journals etc.,
- list their affiliation with, and link themselves to, the IEAC, in social
networks, using our institutional websites, on FACEBOOK.COM, LINKEDIN.COM,
XING.COM, VK.COM and ACADEMIA.EDU (search for the IEAC there),
- be included in the IEAC’s Google mailing list, and possible other future
IEAC-related groups or associations,
- participate in research and publication projects that the IEAC may
propose to them, they may propose to the IEAC, or that may be proposed to
the IEAC, by a third party,
- be introduced on our hopefully soon to be refurbished institutional
website, with a picture, short bio and link, as well as
- network among each other, present together joint research results, in
oral or written form, as well as interact with the IEAC formally and
informally when and as far as appropriate.

Applications are welcome from scholars of any rank (but usually with a
Ph.D. or Cand.Sc. degree), country, ethnicity, age, background, and social
science specialization. We can, however, only consider applications from
scholars who fully fulfil the following six basic conditions. You should:
- be personally acquainted with one or more member/s of the IEAC’s core
senior experts team, i.e. with:
o Borys Tarasiuk (IEAC Head, MP, Co-Chair of the EuroNest Parliamentary
Assembly)
o Oleksandr Sushko (IEAC Research Director, expert on EU, NATO and
Ukrainian politics)
o Volodymyr Horbach (expert on Ukrainian domestic and foreign policies)
o Ihor Kozii (expert on Ukrainian military and internal affairs)
o Andreas Umland (expert on post-Soviet international and radical politics),
- identify yourself with the institute’s announced aim of furthering
Euro-Atlantic cooperation,
- have some documented interest in, or/and relation to, Ukraine,
- be actively publishing or planning to actively publish in scholarly
journals, collected volumes, or/and other specialized outlets, as well as,
if possible, in mass media (newspapers, websites etc.),
- be able to work self-sufficiently, without requiring assistance from, but
rather offering cooperation to, colleagues, within the IEAC network, and
- do or will not have full-time concurrent affiliation/s with an/other
Ukrainian think-tank/s.

All applicants should also be able to claim, at least, four of the below
listed eight desired qualifications. They should:
- have made contributions to peer-reviewed national and international
specialized journals or book series published under the imprint of
recognized academic presses;
- be regularly participating in scholarly conferences, policy workshops and
analytical seminars of established universities, leading think-tanks,
scholarly associations, and political foundations;
- have conducted one or more doctoral and/or postdoctoral research periods
at an internationally ranked higher education or research institution;
- have been awarded one or more scholarships for realizing specialized
study or research project/s from one or more reputed funding institution/s;
- have a full- or part-time affiliation with a university, think-tank or
other relevant institution, at their home town;
- be able to claim membership in some relevant scholarly advisory or
editorial boards, and recognized academic associations or research
networks;
- be taking part in advocacy campaigns aimed at promoting policy objectives
corresponding to the IEAC’s mission, actively communicating with government
organs, business communities, civil society organizations, public opinion
leaders and mass media; and/or
- be participating, as lecturer, speaker or trainer, in public awareness
activities related to European as well as Euro-Atlantic integration, and/or
Ukraine’s increasing participation in it.

Being a very small, under-developed, and under-funded institution, we,
unfortunately, are not able to provide to Associate Fellows any research
funding, office space, secretarial assistance, travel agency, promotional
activity, local accommodation, logistic support, etc. We may, however, in
certain cases, be able to help with relevant contacts, publishing
opportunities, networking possibilities etc.

Though being official, your affiliation with us would remain an informal
one – meaning that it will not involve a contract or other legal
obligations, from either side. Observing rules of academic freedom of
expression, the IEAC does not take any legal, political and/or moral
responsibility for the public or non-public statements of its affiliated
Fellows.

If interested in becoming affiliated to us and joining our emerging
world-wide network, please, send your extensive CV (including a full
publications list), a one-page cover letter addressing the above points, as
well as, if you think it necessary, further supporting material (degree
certificates, letters of recommendation, award/prize certification, etc.),
all merged within one and only one PDF document. This document should have
your full name as its title, and be sent as an email attachment, to:

ieac.office at gmail.com (with cc to: andreas.umland at stanfordalumni.org)

Decisions on a possible affiliation will be taken through consensus of the
above five core experts. We cannot provide any particulars of our selection
procedures and results. Applications will be reviewed and decided upon, on
a rolling basis. There are no deadlines or fixed terms of decision-making.
Affiliations will, once granted, be open-ended. The IEAC’s Head and
Research Director reserve, however, the right to revoke an affiliation
unilaterally and without further clarification, at any time. Fellows may
likewise terminate their affiliation at any time, and without any further
explanation or obligation.

If you believe that you fit in our team, we shall be happy to receive and
review your full application, as one PDF document titled with your name!

PS: Please, be aware of the increasingly large amount of daily
communication all of us are engaged in, especially since the start of
Ukraine’s confrontation with Russia. We therefore prefer to not engage in
extensive exchanges, with individual applicants, about the particulars of
their applications. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience and
disappointments this may cause.

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