IGSD Professor invited to launch Oxford University Press book internationally

Professor Elena Korosteleva, Director of the Institute for Global Sustainable Development (IGSD), has been invited to launch her highly acclaimed book Complexity and Community in International Relations: Nurturing Resilience in Central Eurasia, published by Oxford University Press in December 2025, internationally.

Following a successful launch of her newly published book, at Vilnius University in December 2025, and Europe-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) in Berlin in January 2026, Professor Korosteleva continues her tour at the external invitation. She will present her research first at an internationally attended event titled “Resilience and Community in International Relations: Lessons from Central Eurasia” (hosted by the London School of Economics and Political Science) on 19 March, and will feature her talk followed by a scholarly discussion and audience Q&A.

She will then travel to Florence, Italy, where a dedicated book launch will take place at the European University Institute (EUI) on 27th April. This event will offer an opportunity for further discussion and engagement with the book’s themes among scholars and students in one of Europe’s foremost academic environments. She will conclude her tour by presenting her book to a joint CIM/PAIS event at the University of Warwick, on 10 June 2026.

'Complexity & Community' offers an innovative interdisciplinary perspective on how communities in Central Eurasia - including Belarus, Ukraine, the South Caucasus, and Central Asia - draw on their centuries-long traditions, social memory, social dreaming and peoplehood (their political agency and will) to nurture resilience in the face of poverty, climate emergency, conflict, and war. The book builds on seven years of research and a comparative perspective from across the glover, to highlight the central role of the community of relations, and political agency, in transformations for more sustainable futures.

Details about the event at London School of Economics can be found here. If you are interested in the Florence book launch at the EUI, details can be found here.