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 the study of political resilience, transitional period reforms, propaganda, electoral politics, and forecasting. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx