Tomislava Youlieva Penkova's profile

Books and other main pubblications

• From ideology to pragmatism: The new course of Russian foreign policy, co-authored with S. Giusti, World Affairs Review, Winter 2008, Vol. 12, N. 4
• Ukraine in NATO: An inconsistent recipe for a troublesome country, co-authored with S. Giusti, book chapter in “NATO in the 60th Anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty: Challenges and Strategic Divergences for Euro-Atlantic Security”, Franco Angeli Milan publisher, November 2009   
• EU policy toward Ukraine and Belarus: Diverging paths?, co-authored with S. Giusti, book chapter in “The Foreign Policy of the European Union: Assessing Europe’s Role in the World”, The Brookings Institution Press, Washington D.C., November 2009
• “Sigurnosti stabilno razvitie”: Rusia preosmislia prioritetite na natzionalnata si sigursnost (Security and stable development: Russia’s national security priorities on reconsideration), Geopolitics Review, N. 5, 2009

Main recent articles

• La Russia di fronte alla crisi. Prospettive e ruolo dell’Italia (Russia and the economic crisis: Perspectives and role for Italy), research project commissioned by the Italian Parliament and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, May 2009
• Il Partenariato orientale dell’Unione europea tra potenzialità e debolezze (Strengths and weaknesses of the European Union’s Eastern Partnership), analysis commissioned by the Italian Parliament, November 2009
• Russia and the US “reset” after the new START, ISPI Analysis, April 2010
• Le relazioni sino-russe e il caso dell’Organizzazione per la Cooperazione di Shanghai (Russo-Chinese relations and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization), analysis commissioned by the Italian Parliament, April 2010
• Scenari dopo le elezioni presidenziali in Ucraina per il paese e per le relazioni con Mosca e Bruxelles (Ukraine after presidential elections: What are the prospects for its relationship with Moscow and Brussels?), analysis commissioned by the Italian Parliament, May 2010

Other pubblications

• Russia and the US: A new military confrontation?, ISPI Policy Brief, October 2007
• Ukraine and the EU: Towards an Eastern Partnership?, ISPI Policy Brief, July 2008
• Russia: Just a normal great power?, research project carried out for the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, October 2008
• Russia’s attitude towards the post-Soviet space after the war in Georgia, ISPI Policy Brief, December 2008
• Russia in the Arctic race, ISPI Policy Brief, March 2009
• Russia’s new security doctrine: “Security through stable development”, ISPI Policy Brief, June 2009
• Presidential election in Ukraine: A test of democracy and people’s trust, ISPI Policy Brief , January 2010