What Ukraine Teaches Us About Resilience | Anastasiia Vlasenko | TEDxRiverdale

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If humans remain human in war, it’s not a miracle - it’s institutional memory at work. In her talk "What Ukraine Teaches Us About Resilience" Dr. Vlasenko explores how institutions and humans cultivate resilience. Dr. Anastasiia Vlasenko is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in the Harriman Institute at Columbia University. She is also a recent HURI Research Fellow at Harvard’s Ukrainian Research Institute and a recent Postdoctoral Fellow at the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. She studies war-time resilience and democratization with specialization in politics of Ukraine. Her book project, ‘Ukrainian Resilience: Institutions, Society, Economy, and Culture in Times of War’ investigates why Ukraine has remained remarkably strong in the face of a full-scale invasion. Using a Comparative Politics framework, the book argues that Ukrainian resilience originates in the long history of political reforms and institutional (trans)formation. Vlasenko is particularly interested in

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