Dr. Yuriy Matsiyevsky is a Professor of Political Science and the Head of the Center for Political Research at Ostroh Academy National University (Ukraine). His expertise includes Ukrainian politics, democratization, informal institutions and hybrid regimes.
Yuriy Matsiyevsky received his doctoral degree in political science from Lviv University in 1996 and habilitation from Ivan Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 2016. Previously, he studied at the Graduate School for Social Research in Warsaw, Poland. Since 1999, he has taught at Ostroh Academy in Ostroh, Ukraine.
Dr Matsiyevsky has held several research fellowships, including a Fulbright award at Kennan Institute, Washington, DC, Aleksanteri Institute’s visiting fellowship at the University of Helsinki, a CEU research excellence fellowship and a Carnegie Corporation fellowship at UC Berkeley.
Dr. Matsiyevsky is the author of Trapped in Hybridity: Zigzags of Ukraine’s Political Regime Transformations (2016, in Ukrainian), several book chapters, including Internal Conflict or Hidden Aggression: Competing Accounts and Expert Assessments of the War in Ukraine’s Donbas. In: Civil War? Interstate War? Hybrid War? Dimensions and Interpretations of the Donbas Conflict in 2014-2020. (Ibidem-Verlag. 2021). His articles appeared in Russian Politics and Law, Demokratizatsiya, Political Studies, Ideology and Politics, and Communist and Post-Communist Studies.