Professor Elena Korosteleva publishes a landmark book on resilience and community in Central Eurasia

We are delighted to announce that Professor Elena Korosteleva, Professor of International Politics and Director of the Institute of Global Sustainable Development (IGSD), has published a major new monograph: Complexity and Community in International Relations: Nurturing Resilience in Central Eurasia, with Oxford University Press.

In academic terms, publishing a single-authored monograph with Oxford University Press remains one of the highest honours a scholar can achieve. Working across several years, Professor Korosteleva has woven together insights from seven distinct research projects covering nearly ten countries empirically, into this deeply insightful study.

The book offers an innovative International Relations perspective on how communities in Central Eurasia - including Belarus, Ukraine, the South Caucasus, and Central Asia - draw on centuries-long traditions, social memory, and culture to nurture resilience in the face of poverty, climate emergency, conflict, and war. Rather than treating resilience as a mere policy tool, the study reframes it as a complex, communal process of identity, relations-building and a political agency, with capabilities to design more sustainable futures.

This publication is not only a major contribution to scholarship on governance, conflict/war, and sustainability in Central Eurasia — it also underscores the breadth, ambition and impact of research being pursued at Warwick’s Institute for Global Sustainable Development.

Our warmest congratulations to Professor Korosteleva on this outstanding scholarly milestone. You can find out more about the book here.