‘Analysing Ukraine’s Political Parties: Political
Machines, Gender Issues, Squabbling Hetmans and
Political Hobbits’, Ed Burstynsky Lecture Series,
St.Vladimir’s Institute, Toronto, 15 April 2008.
‘Tymoshenko Returns as Prime Minister. What Does this
Mean for Ukraine?’, St.Vladimir’s Institute, Toronto, 4
March 2008.
‘The 2007 Ukrainian Pre-Term Elections’, Third Annual
Danyliw Seminar on Contemporary Ukraine, Chair of
Ukrainian Studies, University of Ottawa, 15 October
2007.
‘Constructing Regional Identities in the Post-Communist
Space: Eurasia or Europe?’, Institute for Advanced
Studies, Lancaster University, 27 June 2007.
‘The Unfinished Orange Revolution’, Institute for
European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, George
Washington University, 17 May 2007.
‘Ukraine: Internal Turmoil, External Relations’, Center
for Strategic and International Studies, 20 April 2007.
‘The Ongoing Political Crisis in Ukraine’, Association
for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, 14
April 2007.
‘The Constitutional Crisis in Ukraine: Legal and
Political Ramifications in a Comparative Context’,
Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies,
George Washington University, 11 April 2007.
‘Ukraine’s Orange Revolution in Comparative Context’,
British Association for Slavic and East European
Studies, Cambridge University, 30 March 2007.
‘Points of Departure: Georgia and Ukraine After
Democratic Breakthroughs’, German Marshall Fund, Kyiv,
25 November 2006.
‘Ukraine at a Political Fork in the Road: Which Path
Will It Take and What Will It Mean for the West?’,
German Marshall Fund, Berlin, 24 November 2006.
‘Kuchmagate to Orange Revolution’, Conference ‘Tracing
Protest Movements: Perspectives from Sociology,
University of Halle, 23 November 2006.
‘Looking Towards 2009 on the Second Anniversary of the
Orange Revolution’, German Marshall Fund, Washington
DC, Washington DC, 21 November 2006.
‘The Orange Revolutions Impact on the Rule of Law and
Democratization in Ukraine’, Havighurst Center for
Russian and Post-Soviet Studies, Miami University,
Oxford, Ohio, 6 November 2006.
‘The Promise and the Crisis of the Orange Revolution’,
Harvard University, Ukrainian Research Institute
conference ‘Clockwork Orange: Ukraine’s Democratic
Revolution Comes Full Circle’, 5-6 October 2006.
‘Interpreting Ukraine: A Discussion of Recent
Developments’, Center for Strategic and International
Studies and Atlantic Council, Washington DC, 9 August
2006.
Prospects for the Political and Economic Development of
Ukraine’, Austrian Institute for International Affairs
and School of Advanced International Affairs, John
Hopkins University, Vienna, 7-8 June 2006.
‘Ukraine’s Parliamentary Election: Who Won? Who Lost?’,
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Washington DC, 12
April 2006.
‘The Ukrainian 2006 Elections: Breakthrough to
Democracy or Revenge of the Past’, Chair of Ukrainian
Studies, University of Ottawa, at McGill University,
Montreal, 28 March 2006.
‘Civil Society, Youth and Societal Mobilization in
Democratic Revolutions: Serbia, Georgia and Ukraine’,
Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia
University, 23 March 2006.
‘After the Elections: Prospects for Human and Labor
Rights’, American Center for International Labor
Solidarity, AFL-CIO, 22 February 2006.
‘Dealing with the Past in Ukraine, Belarus, and
Moldova’, conference on De-Stalinization: The First 50
Years After Khrushchev’s Secret Speech, George
Washington University, 16 February 2006.
‘Preview of the 2006 Ukrainian Parliamentary
Elections’, Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center,
Washington DC, 31 January 2006.
‘New Survey on Ukraine under Yushchenko’, International
Foundation for Electoral Systems, Washington DC, 17
January 2006.
‘The Orange Revolution: A Year After’, American
Enterprise Institute, Washington DC, 5 December 2005.
‘The Ukrainian Orange Revolution: One Year Later’,
Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies,
George Washington University, 2 December 2005.
‘One Year After the Orange Revolution: An Assessment’,
Carnegie Endowment, Washington DC, 22 November 2005.
‘Orange Revolution in Crisis’, Institute for European,
Russian and Eurasian Studies, George Washington
University, 21 September 2005.
‘The Orange Revolution in Ukraine and the Difficult
Path Ahead’, United States Association of Former
Members of Congress Annual Spring Meeting, Washington
DC, 19 May 2005.
‘100 Days of Viktor Yushchenko’s Presidency’, Institute
for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, George
Washington University, 11 May 2005.
‘Serbia-Georgia-Ukraine-Kyrgyzstan: So Who is Next?’,
Center for Russian and East European Studies,
University of Kansas, 28 November 2005.
‘Ukraine’s Orange Revolution: Causes and Consequences’,
Maria Palij Memorial Fund Annual Lecture, Department of
History and Center for Russian and East and European
Studies, University of Kansas, 28 April 2005.
‘Media in Ukraine’, Understanding and Analyzing
European/Eurasian Media: Implications for US Foreign
and Security Policy, George Mason University, 31 March
2005.
Workshop on Democratisation and Elections in Ukraine
and Russia, Centre for Russian and East European
Studies, University of Toronto, 21 January 2005.
Round-Table on the 2004 Presidential Elections,
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic
Studies, Boston, 6 December 2004.
Congressional Ukrainian Caucus briefing on Ukrainian
Presidential Elections, Washington DC, 10 December
2004.
‘Ukraine’s 2004 Presidential Elections’, Ukrainian
Federation of America, Philadelphia, 30 October 2004.
‘Ukraine’s 2004 Presidential Elections: Geopolitics,
Democratisation and Elite Succession’, Institute for
European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, George
Washington University, 29 October 2004.
‘Defining Ukraine’s Future: The 2004 Presidential
Vote’, Voice of America, Washington DC, 26 October
2004.
‘Ukraine’s 2004 Presidential Elections: Domestic and
Foreign Policy Implications’, Austrian Institute
International Affairs, Vienna, 15 October 2004.
Conference on the Implications of the East European
Elections: Ukraine and Belarus’, The Heritage
Foundation, Washington DC, 28 September 2004.
‘Ukraine’s 2004 Presidential Elections: Domestic and
Foreign Policy Implications’, Center for Strategic
& International Studies, Washington DC, 23
September 2004.
‘Oligarchs into Businessmen: Can Ukraine Become a
‘Normal’ Democratic Country in the Post-Kuchma Era?’,
Contemporary Change Seminar Series, Baltic and East
European Graduate School, Sodertorns Hogskola, Sweden,
27 November 2003.
‘The 1998 and 1999 Elections and the Rise of Oligarchs
in Ukraine’, American Association for the Advancement
of Slavic Studies, Toronto, 20 November 2003.
‘Oligarchs and the Transition to the Post-Kuchma era’,
Centre Russian and East European Studies, University of
Toronto, 10 October 2003.
‘Russians and Russophones in the Former USSR and Serbs
in Yugoslavia: A Comparative Study of Passivity and
Mobilization’, annual convention of the Association for
the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, New
York, 3-5 April 2003.
‘Ukraine: US Relations: What, Where, How?’, Center for
Strategic and International Studies, Washington DC, 31
March 2003.
‘Ukraine: Quo Vadis After Kuchma?’, The Washington
Group of Ukrainian Professional and Businesspersons,
Washington DC, 30 March 2003.
‘Nation-State Building and the Re-Writing of History in
Ukraine: The Legacy of Kyiv Rus’, Centre for Russian
and East European Studies, University of Toronto, 6
March 2003.
‘Ukraine: Independent but not Democratic?’,
Ukrainian-American Professional and Businesspersons
Association of New Jersey, 1 February 2003.
‘The Domestic and International Ramifications of
Iraqgate’, Workshop ‘Ukraine in Crisis’, Centre for
Russian and East European Studies, University of
Toronto, 31 October 2002.
‘Belarusianization or Europeanization? Ukraine
Struggles to Define its Identity Between Two
Elections’, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, 14
October 2002.
‘Little Russia or Ukraine? Ukraine Struggles to Define
Its Identity Between Two Elections and at the End of
the Kuchma Era’, Shevchenko Scientific Society, New
York, 12 October 2002.
9th Annual J.B.Rudnytsky Distinguished Lecture,
‘Ukraine Between Two Elections: 2002-2004’, University
of Manitoba, Winnipeg, 4 October 2002.
‘Ukrainian Elections: What Went Right? What Went
Wrong?’, Canadian Ukrainian Art Foundation, Toronto, 24
April 2002.
‘Between Totalitarianism and Democracy: Assessing
Regime Type in Ukraine’, University of Fribourg,
Fribourg, 19-20 April 2002.
‘Is Nationalism Always so Bad? Nationalism, Identity
and Transition in Post-Soviet Ukraine and Belarus’,
Association for the Study of Nationalities convention,
Columbia University, New York, 13 April 2002.
Panel on Elections in Ukraine. Centre for Russian and
East European Studies, University of Toronto, 8 April
2002.
‘Reform, Muddling Along or Returning to the Soviet
Past: The Choice Facing Voters in Ukraine’s Elections’,
Centre for Russian and East European Studies,
University of Toronto, 26 February 2002.
‘Post-Communist Elites in Search of Ideology’, Centre
for International and Security Studies, York
University, Toronto, 1 May 2001.
‘Nationalism in Ukraine: Towards a New Theoretical and
Comparative Framework’, annual convention of the
Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia
University, New York, 5-7 April 2001.
‘Kuchmagate and the Current Situation in Ukraine’,
Canadian-Ukrainian Art Foundation, Toronto, 29 March
2001.
‘The Presidential Crisis in Ukraine: The Gongadze Case
and the Future of President Leonid Kuchma’, University
of Alberta, 16 March 2001.
‘Nationalism versus the State: Just How Civic Is The
‘Civic State’, Watson Institute for International
Studies, Brown University, 8 November 2000.
‘Ukraine After the Elections: Domestic and Foreign
Policy Considerations’, Harriman Institute, Columbia
University, 19 April 2000.
'The Myth of the Civic State', annual convention of the
Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia
University, New York, 13 April 2000.
‘Civil Society in Ukraine: The Legacy of
Totalitarianism and Empire’, Yale University, 8-9 April
2000.
'Nationalising States or Nation Building? A Critical
Theoretical-Comparative Response to Rogers Brubaker',
Political Studies Association Specialist Group on
Communist and Postcommunist Politics, University
College London, 5 February 2000.
‘Ukraine After the Elections: Domestic and Foreign
Policy Orientations’, Centro Studi sulla Storia
dell’Europa Orientale, Trento, Italy, 14 January 2000.
‘Nation and State Building in Ukraine: Progress and The
Emerging Consensus’, Kennan Institute for Advanced
Russian Studies, Woodrow Wilson Center, 9 November
1999.
‘Ukraine’s Post-Soviet Transition: A Theoretical and
Comparative Perspective’, ‘Problems of Development of
Ukraine Since Independence – In The Light of Western
Theories’, University of Toronto, 5 November 1999.
‘Ukraine after the Presidential Elections: Domestic and
Foreign Polices’, University of Sussex, 19 November
1999.
‘Nationalism, Nation Building and Nationalising States
in Ukraine: A Critical Survey of the Scholarly
Literature’, Centre for Russian and East European
Studies and Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical
Research, University of Toronto, 4 November 1999.
'Ukraine: Strategic options and obstacles', Bureau of
Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of State and
the National Intelligence Council, Washington DC, 30
June 1999.
‘Nationalising States or Nation Building? A Critical
Survey of the Theoretical Literature and Empirical
Evidence’, Annual convention of the Association for the
Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, New York,
14 April 1999.
‘Defining the Political Community in Ukraine: Who are
the ‘We’ and the ‘Others’?’, Political Studies
Association, University of South Bank, 6 February 1999.
‘The East Slavic Conundrum: History and National
Identity’, Conference of the Journal National
Identities, University of London, 20-22 April 1998.
‘The Perils of Multiculturalism: An Area Studies and
Theoretical Approach to the Former USSR’, Political
Science Association, University of Keele, 7-9 April
1998.
‘CIS Contradictions’, East European Security Research
Group, University of Birmingham, 19 February 1998.
‘Belarus and Ukraine: democracy building in a grey
security zone’, European University Institute,
Florence, 16 December 1997.
‘State and Nation Building in Ukraine: Problems,
Achievements and the Way Forward’, M. Palij Annual
Lecture, University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA., 17
November 1997.
‘Ukraine on the Eve of Parliamentary Elections’, Centre
for Russian and East European Studies, University of
Birmingham, 29 October 1997.
‘Post-Soviet Transformation and Civil Society in
Ukraine’, Centre for European Security Studies,
University of Groningen, Kyiv, Ukraine, 20 and 22
October 1997.
‘Between Civic and Ethnic Nationalism: The Forging of a
Ukrainian Political Nation’, Paper presented to the
annual congress of the American Political Science
Association, Washington DC, 29 August 1997.
‘The Use and Abuse of History in Nation-State Building
in Post-Communist Europe’, University of Winnipeg,
Winnipeg, Canada, 18 March 1997.
‘In Search of a National Idea’, Annual T.Shevchenko
lecture, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies,
University of Alberta, Edmonton, 13 March 1997.
‘Kravchuk and Kuchma: A Comparative Analysis of their
Policies and Personalities’, Canadian Institute of
Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton,
Canada, 12 March 1997.
‘The Evolution of National Identity in Independent
Ukraine’, Transformation, Geography and Identity
Workshop, School of Geography, University of
Birmingham, 11 June 1996.
‘Ukraine: The Economic Consequences of Independence’,
Russian and East European Research Centre, The
University of Wolverhampton, 7 May 1996.
‘Regionalism and Nation Building in Ukraine’, Young
Leaders Forum, Future of Europe Trust, Birmingham, 1
March 1996.
‘In Search of a National Idea: The Next Stage of Nation
and State Building in Ukraine’, Centre for Russian and
East European Studies, University of Birmingham, 22
January 1997.
‘The East Slavic Conundrum: Unity or Divergence?’,
‘Soviet to Independent Ukraine: A Troubled
Transformation’ conference, The University of
Birmingham, 14 June 1996.
‘The CIS: Voluntary Association or Vehicle for Russian
Aspirations’, Research and Development Seminar, Foreign
and Commonwealth Office, 17 May 1996.
‘In Search of a National Idea in Ukraine’, School of
Slavonic and East European Studies, University of
London, 27 February 1996.
‘Ukraine under Kuchma’, Russian and East European
Research Centre, The University of Wolverhampton, 1
November 1995.
‘Minorities in Ukraine’, School of Slavonic & East
European Studies, University of London, 6 March 1995.
‘Policy Changes in Ukraine since the Election of
President Leonid Kuchma’, Centre for Russian and East
European Studies, University of Birmingham, 19 October
1994.
‘Ukraine and Moldova’, Conference on Russian Defense
Problems and Policies During Political and Economic
Transitions, Wolfson College, Oxford University, 22-24
April 1994.
‘Friends, Enemies, or simply Partners? NATO and Central
Europe after the Cold War’, Oxford University Strategic
Studies Group & Central European Round Table,
St.Antony’s College, Oxford University, 26 January
1994.
‘Ukraine - Stagnation or Reform? Which Way Ahead’.
Study Day on Security Problems in Ukraine, Moldova,
Transcaucasus and North Caucasus. NATO, Brussels, 14
June 1993.
‘Current Political Developments in Ukraine’, Soviet
Studies Research Centre, Royal Military academy
Sandhurst, 13 May 1992.
‘Ukraine under M.Gorbachev: Recent Developments’,
London School of Economics and Political Science, 26
November 1991.