Elena Korosteleva is Professor of International Politics, Jean Monnet Chair of European Politics, and Director of the Global Europe Centre, at the University of Kent. She is the Principal Investigator for Global Challenges Research Project COMPASS, studying resilience and adaptive governance in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Her recent publications include Resilience in the EU and International Organisations (forthcoming 2020, Routledge, with T. Flockhart), and ‘The Politics’ and ‘The Political’ of the Eastern Partnership Initiative: Reshaping the Agenda (2018, Routledge with I. Merheim-Eyre).