Karina Shyrokykh Associate Professor

PhD Teaching

• 'Quantitative Methods in International Relations' (VT2020, VT2021)

Graduate Teaching

• 'Quantitative Methods' (HT2020, HT2021)

Undergraduate Teaching

• 'International Organizations and Human Rights' (VT2020)
• 'Research Skills' (VT2020, HT2020)
• 'Quantitative Methods in International Relations' (HT2020, VT2021)
• 'Introduction to International Political Economy' (HT2019, VT2020, HT2020, HT2021)
• 'Theory and Methods' (HT2019, VT2020)
• 'Globalization and International Political Economy' (HT2019)

Theses supervision

MA theses with focus on IR and quantitative methods 

Summer courses

Analysera text och siffror – R för samhällsvetare (VT2021)

Pedagogical training

• Teaching and Learning (Centre for the Advancement of University Teaching at Stockholm University (CeUL), HT2019, 7,5 hp.)
• Digital Competences for Teaching (Digitala Kompetenser för Undervisning) (Centre for the Advancement of University Teaching at Stockholm University (CeUL), VT2020, 7,5 hp.)
• Research Supervision (CeUL, HT2020, 7,5 hp.)

Peer-reviewed original articles

Karina Shyrokykh

 and Lisa Dellmuth (2025) Climate Change Framings and Linkages Across International Organisations. Earth System Governance 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S258981162500045X

Sonja Grimm, 

 and Nea Solander (2025) Seeking to embed democracy: Tracing the substantial evolution of the European Union’s democracy promotion, 2004-2020. Comparative European Politics (2025) 

https://doi.org/10.1057/s41295-025-00430-x

Karina Shyrokykh

 and Nea Solander (2025) “Conditional Aid Under What Conditions? Exploring Consistency in Performance-Based Aid Allocation.” JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies.

Karina Shyrokykh

 and Thomas Winzen (2025)” International Actors and Democracy Protection: Preventing the Spread of Illiberal Legislation in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.” Democratization, online first. 

Karina Shyrokykh

 and 

Martin Kragh (2024) Black Knight NGOs and International Disinformation. European Security, online first. 

Jung, Yeonju and Karina Shyrokykh (2024) "Needs or Interests: Drivers of China’s Peace Engagement in Conflict-affected Countries." International Peacekeeping, 31(5): 553

–

574. 

Shyrokykh, K

., Girnyk, M. and Dellmuth, L. (2023) “Short Text Classification with Machine Learning in the Social Sciences: The Case of Climate Change on Twitter.” Plos one, 18(9), e0290762. 

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0290762

Shyrokykh, Karina

, Lisa Dellmuth and Elisa Funk (2023) “Managing Networks: Cohesion and Fluidity in EU Climate Cooperation with European Neighbours,” European Union Politics, 24(3): 539

–

558.

Dellmuth, Lisa and 

 (2023) “Climate Change on Twitter: Implications for Climate Governance Research,” Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews. Climate Change, 14(6): 1

–

9. 

Shyrokykh,

 Karina (2022) “Why climate? The Drivers of the European Union’s Climate Governance in its Post-Soviet East European Neighbors,” Problems of Post-Communism, 69(4-5): 358

–

368. 

Shyrokykh,

 Karina (2022) “European Development Co

‐

operation via Technical Assistance: An Outside

‐

in Perspective,”JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, online first. 

Shyrokykh,

 Karina (2022) “Human Rights Sanctions and the Role of Black Knights: Evidence from the EU’s Post-Soviet Neighbours,” Journal of European Integration, 44(3): 429

–

449. 

Shyrokykh,

 Karina (2022) “Help Your Neighbor, Help Yourself: The Drivers of European Union's Climate Cooperation in Trans

‐

Governmental Networks with its Neighbors,” Governance, 35(4): 1095

–

1118. 

Tosun, Jale and Karina Shyrokykh (2022) “Leadership in High-Level Forums on Energy Governance: China and Russia Compared,” Post-Communist Economies, 34(7): 847

–

870. 

Shyrokykh,

 Karina (2020) “How Effective is EU’s Human Rights Persuasion in its post-Soviet Neighbourhood? Insights from a Statistical Assessment,” Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 28(3): 283

–

303. 

Shyrokykh,

 Karina and Dovile Rimkutė (2019) “EU Rules Beyond its Borders: The Policy

‐

specific Effects of Transgovernmental Networks and EU Agencies in the European Neighbourhood,” JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 57(4): 749

–

767. 

https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.12883

Shyrokykh,

 Karina (2019) “Policy-Specific Effects of Transgovernmental Cooperation: A Statistical Assessment across the EU’s Post-Soviet Neighbours,” Journal of European Public Policy, 26(1): 149

–

168. 

Shyrokykh,

 Karina (2018) “The Evolution of the Foreign Policy of Ukraine: External Actors and Domestic Factors,” Europe-Asia Studies, 70(5): 832

–

850. 

Shyrokykh,

 Karina (2018) “Compromising on Values? Human Rights Pressure and Competing Interests of the European Union in the Former Soviet States,” European Foreign Affairs Review, 23(1): 119 – 141. 

https://doi.org/10.54648/eerr2018007

Shyrokykh, Karina

 (2017) “Effects and Side Effects of European Union Assistance on the Former Soviet Republics,” Democratization, 24(4): 651–669. 

Peer-reviewed books and book chapters

Shyrokykh,

 Karina and Olya Melen-Zabramna (2024) 

“

Europeanisation of Ukraine’s Policy on Environment and Climate: Instrumental and Anticipatory Compliance.

Shyrokykh,

 Karina, 

Kateryna Busol and Dmytro Koval (2024) “European integration and reforms in Ukraine amidst the war.” In: Ukraine's Thorny path to the EU (pp. 153-176). London: Palgrave Macmillan. 

Shyrokykh,

 Karina and Kateryna Busol (2022) “Three Decades of the EU's Human Rights Promotion in post-Soviet Countries: Success Story or Wasted Effort?.” In: State-Building, Rule of Law, Good Governance and Human Rights in Post-Soviet Space (pp. 165

–

180). Routledge.

Rimkutė, Dovile and Karina Shyrokykh (2019) “Transferring the Acquis Through EU Agencies: The Case of the European Neighbourhood Policy Countries.” In: The External Dimension of EU Agencies and Bodies (pp. 183

–

203). Edward Elgar Publishing.