Sophie Gueudet
Research fellow at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa, associate researcher with the PeaceRep Ukraine programme at the London School of Economics and Political Science
Areas of Expertise
Separatist conflicts, contested territories and sovereignties in the post-Yugoslav and post-Soviet spaces
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Civilian resistance in wartime Ukraine
RE-ENGAGE researchers travelled to Kyiv in September 2025 to conduct fieldwork. Vira, a Kyiv based university student and locally trained enumerator, shares her testimony as a voice that speaks from within the conditions that both sustain and constrain the research.
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Doors unlock and open? Hybrid regimes and foreign interferences in the eastern neighbourhood
Summary This paper examines the dynamics of hybrid regimes in Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine, focusing on their susceptibility to foreign interference amidst geopolitical tensions. It explores how these regimes, characterized by a mix of democratic and authoritarian practices, create fertile grounds for external actors like Russia, China, and Turkey to…
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Hybridity and hybrid regimes in the Eastern Neighbourhood in a time of war and increased geopolitical tensions
This background paper delivers a comprehensive understanding of the post- independence trajectories of Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine toward the consolidation of hybridity, understood as a distinct type of regime that oscillates between democratic and authoritarian practices of power.