Karina ShyrokykhAssociate 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, Karina Shyrokykh, 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. 10.1080/13510347.2025.2461463?needAccess=true

Karina Shyrokykh and Martin Kragh (2024) Black Knight NGOs and International Disinformation. European Security, online first. https://doi.org/10.1080/09662839.2024.2437781 

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. https://doi.org/10.1080/13533312.2024.2369513

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.https://doi.org/10.1177/14651165231152

Dellmuth, Lisa and Karina Shyrokykh (2023) “Climate Change on Twitter: Implications for Climate Governance Research,” Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews. Climate Change, 14(6): 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.848

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. https://doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2021.1974888

Shyrokykh, Karina (2022) “European Development Co‐operation via Technical Assistance: An Outside‐in Perspective,”JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, online first. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13420

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. https://doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2021.1908278

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. https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12646

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. https://doi.org/10.1080/14631377.2021.1964742

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. https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2020.1727865

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. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2017.1393837

Shyrokykh, Karina (2018) “The Evolution of the Foreign Policy of Ukraine: External Actors and Domestic Factors,” Europe-Asia Studies, 70(5): 832–850. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26594095

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. https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2016.1204539

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.” In: Ukraine's Thorny path to the EU (pp. 247–278). London: Palgrave Macmillan.

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.