Polina Sinovets
Former PfP Research Fellow
Dr. Polina Sinovets is the Head of the Odesa Center for Nonproliferation (OdCNP) and holds the position of Associate Professor and Ph.D. in Political Science in the Department of International Relations, Political Science, and Sociology at Odesa I.I. Mechnikov National University. Additionally, she is an Affiliate Professor at the University of Malta and a PfP research fellow at the NATO Defense College.
Dr. Sinovets has an accomplished research career in the field of nuclear weapons policy, which has involved working at several prestigious institutions.
From 2003 to 2012, she served as a senior research associate at Ukraine’s National Institute for Strategic Studies.
In 2017-2018, she was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship and worked at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies.
Recently, in 2022-2023, Dr. Sinovets held research fellowships at the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Nonproliferation and Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique.
She has published over 90 research publications in various academic journals, including the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Notes de la FRS, and NATO Defense College Research Papers, among others.
NDC Publications by Polina Sinovets
- Fifty shades of red: where does Russia draw the line? Polina SINOVETS
- War changes everything: Russia after Ukraine Jānis BĒRZIŅŠ; Mark GALEOTTI; Tracey GERMAN; Marc OZAWA; Polina SINOVETS;
- NATO’s Response to Hybrid Threats General Philip M. BREEDLOVE; MajGen Janusz BOJARSKI; Jeffrey A LARSEN; Jan ABTS; Inessa BABAN; Stefanie BABST; Hall GARDNER; Keir GILES; Aleksandr GOLTS; Julijus GRUBLIAUSKAS; Andreas JACOBS; Dave JOHNSON; Karl-Heinz KAMP; Guillaume LASCONJARIAS; Roger MCDERMOTT; Henrik PRAKS; Heidi REISINGER; Bettina RENZ; Michael RÜHLE; Diego A. RUIZ PALMER; Jean-Loup SAMAAN; Polina SINOVETS; Brooke A. SMITH-WINDSOR; Élie TENENBAUM
- Russia’s 2014 Military Doctrine and beyond: threat perceptions, capabilities and ambitions Polina SINOVETS; Bettina RENZ;
- Ukraine and its Neighbourhood – How to Deal with Aggressive Russia Caterina BECKER; Heidi REISINGER; Polina SINOVETS; Brooke A. SMITH-WINDSOR;
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