Ekaterina Pierson-Lyzhina is an associated researcher at REPI (Université libre de Bruxelles, ULB) and CEFRES (Prague). Her research interests include Belarus, oppositional governments in exile, non-state actors, diaspora politics, foreign policies of autocracies, and Eastern Partnership countries. She also works as a substitute lecturer and teaching assistant in the Department of Political Science at ULB, where she received her Ph.D in 2020.

References 

• Pierson-Lyzhina, E. forthcoming 2024. The Kastuś Kalinoŭski Regiment: Auxiliaries to Ukraine or an autonomous politico-military actor? In Péter Marton, Gry Thomasen, Csaba Békés and András Rácz (Eds.). Handbook on Non-State Actors in East-West Relations, Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05750-2_45-1
• Kazharski, A. and Pierson-Lyzhina, E.forthcoming 2024.‘The Lithuanians have our back’: Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya’s Office and the United Transitional Cabinet in the face of fragmented Western support. In Péter Marton, Gry Thomasen, Csaba Békés and András Rácz (Eds.). Handbook on Non-State Actors in East-West Relations, Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05750-2_45-1
• Pierson-Lyzhina, E. and Sula, P. 2024. ‘We are targets of a hybrid war’ An engineered migration crisis as a regime survival strategy and legitimation ‘mission’. In Elżbieta Kużelewska, Agnieszka Kasińska-Metryka, Karolina Pałka-Suchojad and Agnieszka Piekutowska (Eds.) Geopolitical and Humanitarian Aspects of the Belarus–EU Border Conflict (1st ed.), 3-17. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032710754
• Pierson-Lyzhina, E. (2021). Belarus’s oscillating foreign policy towards the EU: from engagement to retrenchment (1994-2021). Canadian Slavonic Papers 63(3-4): 338-57. https://doi.org/10.1080/00085006.2021.1992238
• Pierson-Lyzhina, E. (2021). Actors of Belarusian ‘Multivector’ Foreign Policy towards the EU in the 2010s. The Journal of Belarusian Studies 11(1): 56-86. https://doi.org/10.30965/20526512-12350007

Articles in Regard sur l’Est

https://regard-est.com/?s=Pierson-lyzhina

• Pierson-Lyzhina, E. “The deeper causes of Belarusian popular mobilisation”, The progressive Post by Foundation for European Studies, 4 Dec. 2020. https://progressivepost.eu/the-deeper-causes-of-belarusian-popular-mobilisation/
• Pierson-Lyzhina, E. “Sortir de la crise politique en Biélorussie : avec ou sans l’intervention d’acteurs extérieurs ?”, Questions d’Europe, n°573, Fondation Robert Schuman, le 2 octobre 2020. https://www.robert-schuman.eu/fr/doc/questions-d-europe/qe-573-fr.pdf
• Pierson-Lyzhina, E. “‘Vaccine diplomacy’ targeted at Eastern Partnership countries”, The Eurasian States in Transition Research Center (EAST Center), 1 June 2021, pp. 1-8. https://east-center.org/vaccine-diplomacy-targeted-at-eastern-partnership-countries/
• Pierson-Lyzhina, E., Kovalenko, O., Saralidze, L., “Government communication and public resilience to propaganda during COVID-19 in Belarus, Georgia, and Ukraine”, EAST Center, 25 Jan. 2021, pp. 1-23. https://east-center.org/government-communication-and-public-resilience-to-propaganda-during-covid-19-in-belarus-georgia-and-ukraine/
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• Pierson-Lyzhina, E., Kovalenko, O., “The coronavirus outbreak in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine: Responses by the state, business and civil society”, EAST Center, 28 Oct. 2020. https://east-center.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/The-coronavirus-outbreak-BLR-RU-UKR.pdf
• “In Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Lukashenko makes for an uncomfortable bedfellow,” The Conversation, 17 March 2022. https://theconversation.com/in-russias-invasion-of-ukraine-lukashenko-makes-for-an-uncomfortable-bedfellow-179244
• “Bielorussia, entre las sanctiones de la UE y el apoyo ruso” (Belarus: between the EU sanctions and Russian support), Política Exterior, Madrid, julio/agosto de 2021, pp. 14-20. https://www.politicaexterior.com/articulo/bielorrusia-entre-las-sanciones-de-la-ue-y-el-apoyo-ruso/

Additionnal contents

Presentation of results of Bielexil project 2022-23 at the webinar “Les exiles bélarusses en Europe centrale et orientale, CORRIREF, SciencesPo, Paris, 29 September 2023 (© IC Migrations CNRS, octobre 2023).

“Loukachenko, le dictateur d’à côté” (© Arte TV, Décryptage ; 2023).

“Bélarus : une révolte sans précédent” (© RTBF La première/Centre d’Action Laïque, June 2021).

Mots clés
opposition in exile, autocracies, foreign policy, Belarus, Eastern Partnership