ReBuild Ukraine: neoliberal reforms, energy and post-war pathways
por Olena Lyubchenko
Read the new short report by our affiliate researcher Olena Lyubchenko examining trends in Ukraine’s post-war reconstruction. The report analyses the November 2023 ReBuild Ukraine Powered by Energy Exhibition in Warsaw, Poland, and it is part of a broader investigation into Ukraine’s post-war reconstruction.
The report highlights Ukraine’s alignment with the European Green Deal, emphasising renewable energy, energy independence, and infrastructure development. It also focuses on attracting private investment through conferences and partnerships with financial institutions and Western governments.
- How will the emphasis on privatisation affect public goods?
- Does the plan create a truly “risk-free” development environment?
- Will reconstruction reinforce financial and technological dependencies?
- Could resource transfers occur from Ukraine to Europe?
- How does it affect the humanitarian sector?
Olena Lyubchenko
Olena Lyubchenko is a PhD Candidate in Political Science at York University, Toronto, and an associate faculty member at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. Her research and teaching draws on Marxist critique of political economy and focuses on social reproduction, primitive accumulation, and the making and transformation of the Soviet Union in global context. She writes about neoliberal restructuring, the financialisation of social reproduction, racialisation and citizenship in post-Soviet Russia and Ukraine, as well as the regulation of labour relations in settler-colonial Canada. Olena is an editor at LeftEast and Midnight Sun Magazine. She is a co-editor of the volume Change and Continuity: Canadian Political Economy in the New Millennium (McGill-Queens, 2019).
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