Registration REQUIRED by 11:30am on October 6, 2025 in order to attend this event.
Please join the Harriman Institute for a talk by Julia Vassileva. Moderated by Jack Snyder.
Dr. Julia Vassileva is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the International Security Program at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. She studies the evolving relationship between post-Soviet states and international structures of governance, with a first book manuscript on women’s roles in peace processes across Eastern Europe. In the past academic year, she was a visiting scholar at Columbia University. Her research draws on extensive fieldwork in the Baltics, Georgia, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Turkey, as well as remote collaboration with colleagues in Ukraine. She has worked at the European Commission and the EU’s diplomatic service in Brussels, as a researcher at the UN’s International Law Commission in Geneva and New York, and held research appointments in Japan and Singapore.
