Dr. Yuliia Kurnyshova is a researcher at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, and an affiliated researcher in the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu. She has recently completed her postdoctoral research stay with the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. Her current research project explores the political and security implications of Russia's war against Ukraine, focusing on agency, security discourse, and securitization theory. Before the full-scale invasion, she worked for the National Institute for Strategic Studies (Kyiv) and the Institute for Social and Economic Research as a foreign policy analyst. Her most recent affiliation was with the Institute of International Relations (Kyiv). Her PhD thesis was on U.S. Foreign Policy during the Berlin Crisis 1958-1963.