Areas of Expertise:
  • Security in transition states
  • Human security and good governance
  • Social conflicts
  • Civil wars

Tetyana Malyarenko

Tetyana Malyarenko is Professor of International Security and Jean Monnet Professor on European Security at the National University ‘Odesa Law Academy’, Ukraine.

She is the founder and director of the Ukrainian Institute for Crisis Management and Conflict Resolution, a Ukrainian NGO, which aims to promote interdisciplinary research, research-led teaching and evidence-based advice to policy-makers on crisis management and conflict resolution in Ukraine and beyond.

Her main research areas of interests include societal and economic aspects of security in transition states, human security and good governance, social conflicts and civil wars.

Dr. Malyarenko has held visiting research positions at the Johns Hopkins University, Wilson Centre for International Scholars, Washington DC, University of California Berkeley, the Institute for Peace and Conflicts, University of Granada, the University of Tromso and the University of Gothenburg.

Dr. Malyarenko’s publications to date include five books and over fifty journal articles and book chapters.

Tetyana Malyarenko holds a Master Degree from Donetsk National Technical University, a Candidate of Science Degree in Economics from Donetsk National University of Economics and Trade and a Doctor of Science Degree in Public Policy  from Donetsk State Management University (thesis title: ‘Preventing Social Conflicts: The Mechanisms of Governance and Security of the State’).