Anastasia Prokhorova
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Anastasia Prokhorova
@anaprokhorov.bsky.social
PhD Researcher @EUI | international relations, security, peace operations, protection
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I look forward to joining @simonetholens.bsky.social and @diegobadell.bsky.social, who are both authors of a chapter in the volume, as well as Lorraine Klimowich from @springernature.com.
Looking forward to the conversations ahead and to meeting many of you there!
August 26, 2025 at 1:07 PM
To be continued w. David Curran at the roundtable on researching training for international deployments (FR 10:45am) #BISA2025
June 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Grateful for the opportunity to present our draft w. @stephofmann.bsky.social & @raffaelemstr.bsky.social on ad hoc coalitions #AHCs in and across time. More food for thought on the politics of ADHOCISM and other alternative forms of global governance 💭
May 20, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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In this fourth SI article, @anaprokhorov.bsky.social analyses peacekeeping and the changing nature of peacekeepers’ protection duties through the lens of norm contestation.

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Productive contestation: R2P and the images of protectors in UN peacekeeping
Protection, uncommon in peacekeeping before the 1990s, has become the norm. This article takes issue with this normative shift and explores how the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and Protection of...
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March 24, 2025 at 7:00 AM
It 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.
March 29, 2025 at 5:02 PM
📝 in my latest article in CSP I investigate how norms like POC and R2P normalized particular images of protectors in UN peace operations. I develop the concept of productive contestation to highlight the political and normalising work of norms: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
March 29, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Building on the feminist critique of the liberal framework centering a sovereign state/individual, we propose to rethink protection as relational, communal and two-sided.
March 29, 2025 at 5:02 PM
📝 in our collective intervention for CSoS on the politics of protection, @louiseridden.bsky.social and I contributed a short piece troubling what the ‘self’ stands for in self-protection: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
March 29, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Drawing on ideas around ‘performance’ I analyzed how special advisers to the SG can reshape norms like R2P in their public statements becoming more of ‘performative leaders’ than conventional norm entrepreneurs.
March 29, 2025 at 5:02 PM
📝 in my (first ever) paper in GR2P I explored how individual agency can matter in rigid and bureaucratic organizations like the UN: brill.com/view/journal...
March 29, 2025 at 5:02 PM