‘Odd Bedfellows: Sierra Leonean Diamonds and Ukrainian Arms’, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York, 18-19 April 2008.
‘GUAM as a Regional and Security Organisation’, National Security and Foreign Policy of Azerbaijan conference, St Michael’s College, University of Toronto, 28 March 2008.
‘How the Gas Issue Plays in Ukrainian Politics and How Ukrainian Politicians Play the Gas Issue’, Harvard University, 7 March 2008.
‘The Ukrainian Factor in the US Elections’, School of Journalism, Kyiv Mohyla Academy, 25 February 2008.
‘Ukraine-EU Relations’, Dept. Political Science, Carleton University, 18 January 2008.
‘Ukraine-EU Relations and Enhanced Partnership’, Ukraine’s Quest for Mature Nation Statehood 8, Ukraine-EU Relations, Washington D.C., 17 October 2007.
‘Ukraine-NATO After Riga’, Atlantic Council, Washington DC, 20 December 2006.
‘Ukraine’s NATO Aspirations: Strengths and Weaknesses’, German Marshall Fund, NATO summit, Riga, 27 November 2006.
‘The Feasibility of Ukraine’s Aspirations to Join NATO and the EU’, German Marshal Fund Transatlantic Center, Brussels, 28 June 2006.
‘The Foreign Policy Implications of the Orange Revolution and the 2006 Elections’, Istituto Affari Internationali, Rome, 29 May 2006.
‘The Ukrainian-Russian Gas Crisis and Its Aftermath’, Ukrainian Research Institute and Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, 6 February 2006.
‘The Russia-Ukraine Gas Conflict: Dilemmas for European and Energy Security’, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Washington DC, 19 January 2006.
‘Russian-Ukrainian Gas Conflict and European Security: Towards a New Cold War?’, Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, George Washington University, 18 January 2006.
‘Wider Europe and the Transatlantic Link’, Center for Strategic and International Studies, 25 October 2005.
‘Ukrainian Security Policy’, 100 Days of Viktor Yushchenko, Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, George Washington University, 11 May 2005.
‘Ukrainian Security Policy under Kuchma’, Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, 14 April 2005.
‘Ukraine’s New Security Policy Since the Orange Revolution: Origins and Projections’, School Advanced International Studies, John Hopkins University, 8 April 2005.
‘Ukraine: Between Russia and Europe’, School of Advanced International Studies, John Hopkins University, 22 February 2005.
‘Security Cooperation with Russia, Ukraine and the Caucasus’, Institute Foreign Policy Analysis, Washington DC, 23 July 2004.
‘How will the 2004 Presidential Elections Affect Ukraine’s Foreign Policy?’, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment and Centre for Russian Studies, NUPI, Oslo, 5 May 2004.
‘Ukrainian Foreign Policy: Pro-Russian, Pro-Western or Simply Pro-Kuchma?”, Harvard University, 9 February 2004.
‘Ukraine and Russia in the new Europe’, Canada-Ukraine Strategic Seminar, Department of Defence, University of Toronto, 23 October 2002.
‘Ukraine-NATO’, conference on ‘The United States and the Second Round of NATO Enlargement’, Columbia University, New York, 21-22 February 2002.
’The Ukraine-Russia-EU triangular relationship’, ‘A New Iron Curtain? EU-Russia Relations in Focus’, European Union, Brussels, 26-27 June 2000.
‘NATO Enlargement and Ukrainian Politics’, ‘NATO: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow’, University of Kansas , 9 September 1999.
‘Domestic Obstacles to Ukraine’s Strategic Foreign Policy Agenda’, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Kyiv, 17 May 1999.
‘Slavophiles versus Westernisers: Foreign Policy Orientations in Ukraine’, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York, 11 May 1999.
‘Ukrainian Foreign Policy and the Presidential Elections’, University of North London, 15 October 1999.
‘Europe or Eurasia? National Identity, Transformation and Ukrainian Foreign Policy’, British Association for Slavic and East European Studies, Cambridge, 4-6 April 1998 and St. Andrew’s University, Fife, Scotland, 14 March 1998.
‘Europe or Eurasia? National Identity, Transformation and Ukrainian Foreign Policy’, annual congress of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Seattle, 20 November 1997.
‘Return to Europe’: Ukraine’s Strategic Foreign Policy Agenda’, College of Europe, Warsaw, 26 April 1997.
‘Political, Economic and Security Threats in Ukraine and Belarus and Their Relations with Russia’, NATO Defence College, Rome, 7 April 1997.
‘The Domestic Sources of Ukrainian Foreign Policy’, The Chair of Ukrainian Studies, The University of Ottawa, 22 March 1997.
‘Ukraine’s Relations with Central-Eastern Europe’, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Wilton Park, 13 December 1995.
‘Ukrainian-Russian Relations and the Near Abroad’, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham, 11 October 1995.
‘Ukrainian Civil-Military Relations and the Military Impact of the Ukrainian Economic Crisis’, The Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, John Hopkins University and University of Maryland, Barnett Hill, July 12, 1994.
‘Ukrainian Security Policy: External and Domestic Threats to Ukrainian Independence’, The Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland, 3-4 March 1994.
‘The Ukraine in Future European Architectures and Security Environments’, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik and Rand Corporation, Ebenhausen, Germany, 21-23 November 1993.
‘Ukraine and Security in Europe’, North Atlantic Assembly and Ukrainian Parliament, Kyiv, 20-23 June 1993.
‘Ukrainian Foreign Policy’, Conference on Contemporary Issues in Ukraine, School of Slavonic & East European Studies, University of London, 12 December 1992.