Rabinovych, MarynaPintsch, AnneFreudlsperger, ChristianSchimmelfennig, FrankDragneva, RilkaWolczuk, KatarynaVan Elsuwege, PeterLazarenko, ValeriaRabinovych, MarynaFedorenko, KostiantynBusol, KaterynaKoval, DmytroHaletska, NataliyaOprysk, LiliiaAleksyeyeva, YelyzavetaShyrokykh, KarinaMelen-Zabramna, OlgaProtsyk, HalynaBuonanno, LaurieDyson, KennethLaffan, BrigidRadaelli, ClaudioRhinard, MarkRipoll Servent, AriadnaSchimmelfennig, FrankSternberg, ClaudiaTocci, Nathalie2025-11-212025-11-212025Ukraine's thorny path to the EU : from "integration without membership" to "integration through war" / [Maryna Rabinovych, Anne Pintsch, Christian Freudlsperger, ... Karina Shyrokykh, Kateryna Busol, Dmytro Koval et al.] ; ed.: Maryna Rabinovych, Anne Pintsch. - Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. - xiii, 327 p. - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-69154-6978-3-031-69153-9978-3-031-69154-62662-58812662-5873https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-69154-6https://ekmair.ukma.edu.ua/handle/123456789/37642This publication is based on work carried out in the framework of the research project "Lowering the Bar? Compliance Negotiations and EU-Ukraine Association Agreement", funded by the Research Council of Norway (grant number: 315777, project duration: 01/07/2021–15/ 08/2024). The project was implemented by the Department of Polit-ical Science and Management, University of Agder, Norway, and led by Associate Professor Dr. Anne Pintsch. As core project team and editors, Dr. Anne Pintsch (project leader) and Dr. Maryna Rabinovych (post-doctoral researcher with the “Low-ering the Bar?” project) would like to express sincere gratitude to the Research Council of Norway for funding the research on Ukraine, much needed amidst the war and Ukraine’s thorny path to its EU membership. We are also thankful to three Ukrainian institutions that have been project partners during these three challenging years and provided us with invalu-able local knowledge and insights: Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv; NGO "Foreign Policy Council ‘Ukrainian Prism’" with the primary loca-tion in Kyiv; and NGO "Environment People Law" in Lviv. Not least, we owe a word of gratitude to all chapter authors for their contributions and participation in the book workshop on 8–9 June 2022 in Kristiansand. We admire the resistance of Ukraine, Ukrainians, and Ukrainian academics to Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified war of aggression against Ukraine and their efforts on Ukraine’s path to membership in the European Union.enEU-Ukraine Association Agreementproject "Lowering the Bar?"Ukraineresistance of UkrainemonographieBook