Anastasia Prokhorova

PhD Researcher at @eui_sps, previously @ceu_ir | IR, security, peace operations, protection

[Anastasia Prokhorova @AnaProkhorov]

In New York for the Protection of Civilians Week #POCweek2026 which started yesterday. Happy to catch up and connect with protection practitioners and researchers to exchange on the current state and the future of POC in and beyond peace operations.

[Anastasia Prokhorova @AnaProkhorov]

One of the key takeaways is that protection of civilians has approximated policing as UN peace operations adapt to the transforming postliberal and multipolar world order.

[Anastasia Prokhorova @AnaProkhorov]

In my latest article in @CSP_journal I investigate how norms like POC and R2P have normalized particular images of protectors in UN peace operations.

[CSP Journal @CSP_journal]

In this fourth SI article @AnaProkhorov analyses peacekeeping and the changing nature of peacekeepers’ protection duties through the lens of norm contestation.

https://t.co/nph8j2psII

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This concept is instrumental to distinguish between cosmopolitan and state-centric R2P, when it comes to norm contestation, and between militarised protectors of individual bodies and police protectors of order and stability, when it comes to peace operations.

[Anastasia Prokhorova @AnaProkhorov]

Privileged to have been part of this Special Issue connecting peace operations & peacebuilding with the shifts in the global order. Many thanks to @SaraHellmuller and @FannyBadache for their guidance along the way and @CSP_journal for their editorial support.

[CSP Journal @CSP_journal]

📢 Our second issue of the year is out!

Vol 46(2) features the Special Issue "Children of their time: The impact of world politics on United Nations peace operations".

Special Issue editors: @SaraHellmuller & @FannyBadache

👉 https://t.co/ypYEfDkwW5

An overview in this 🧵

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@NiklasBremberg @NgGraeger @alessandra_russ @nanallz @DrATchie @AnniekBarnhoorn @kerstincarlson @Qiaochu_Zhang3 @David_Birchallz @aninehagemann

[Anastasia Prokhorova @AnaProkhorov]

What a treat it was to spend two days in Copenhagen debating the future of human protection in the changing global order. A discussion led by Chiara de Franco @UniSouthDenmark and @LGelot, keynote by our own Trine Flockhart @STGEUI and plenty of strong and diverse contributions.

[Anastasia Prokhorova @AnaProkhorov]

Also gradually migrating to a place where the sky is bluer. Keeping the handle though: anaprokhorov

[Political and Social Sciences at EUI @eui_sps]

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(Deadline for applications: 31 January 2025)

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Long time in the making, this piece found a home in @CSP_journal. Looking forward to seeing the whole issue come out in the next months!

[CSP Journal @CSP_journal]

🚨new publication online

In this article @AnaProkhorov analyzes peacekeeping and the changing nature of peacekeepers’ protection duties through the lens of norm contestation.

👉 https://t.co/nph8j2psII

[Anastasia Prokhorova @AnaProkhorov]

Happy reading! And congratulations to @lou_pingeot for making it onto the @IAJournal_CH top 10 books of the year list.

[International Affairs @IAJournal_CH]

Our annual🎀Christmas Reading List📚is here!

Book Reviews Editor @mariana_vieir1 suggests 10 captivating books for this year: https://t.co/UKdyM6Upvf

[Anastasia Prokhorova @AnaProkhorov]

A very relevant source since a new (non-UN) international police force has been recently deployed in #Haiti
Link to the book itself: https://t.co/01hdkfhvyD

[Anastasia Prokhorova @AnaProkhorov]

It was a delight to review this sharp and profound analysis of @UNPeacekeeping by @lou_pingeot for @IAJournal_CH. ‘Police Peacekeeping’ shows how to study peace operations transnationally and in the (mostly) colonial historical context of global policing: https://t.co/V8B3xVYLHK

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Read full text here: https://t.co/AIelPzFhCi

[Anastasia Prokhorova @AnaProkhorov]

Are you working on ‘protection’ and interested in how this discourse operates in all of #IR: from COVID-19 hospitals to Jordanian refugee camps, Colombian peace communities, and UK martial institutions? Then, you might enjoy our recent collective intervention in @csosjournal ⬇️

[Luise Bendfeldt @BendfeldtLuise]

The first publications from our thinking around ‘protection’ in IR are here!! 🤩🥳

In this introduction @Louise_Ridden @emcliff19 Hannah Richards and i examine what might be gained from interrogating and problematising protection @csosjournal https://t.co/CG1ZTD3nng

[Anastasia Prokhorova @AnaProkhorov]

Amidst the conversations on protection and temporality, vulnerability, violence, care, whiteness and power, @Louise_Ridden and I reflected on the idea of ‘self-protection’ uprooting it from the framework of sovereign state/individual and thinking #protection relationally

[Anastasia Prokhorova @AnaProkhorov]

A special day in Geneva where today starts the 11th edition of the @GenevaPeaceWeek #GPW24
A big opportunity to be at the center of conversations about the future of #peaceoperations and #ProtectionOfCivilians

[United Nations Geneva @UNGeneva]

TODAY: don’t miss the 2024 #GenevaPeaceWeek opening ceremony : What is Peace?

Featuring a discussion, special messages, a fado performance, and more.

📍 @UNGeneva & online, 14 October, 4:30 pm CET

Register to be part of the @GenevaPeaceWeek journey: https://t.co/kPOvTkZe0W

[Anastasia Prokhorova @AnaProkhorov]

Special thanks for putting together a whole section (!) dealing with protection, and to the audience for many helpful suggestions.

[Anastasia Prokhorova @AnaProkhorov]

Such a wonderful occasion for a reunion of this ‘protection’ group at #EISAPEC24. In-between delish 🥐, @BendfeldtLuise @Louise_Ridden @VmBasham @emcliff19 @h_k_richards @katharina_kra and I tried to think protection outside of statist/militarist/neoliberal frameworks.