He currently serves as Executive-in-Residence Fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) in Switzerland and as a Professor at the European Center for Peace and Development (ECPD) of the UN University for Peace in Belgrade, Serbia. His most recent academic engagement includes a visiting professorship at Lanzhou University in China, following his tenure as Professor at the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine. He previously held senior research and academic roles such as Deputy Director and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of European Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and Visiting Professor at the East London Business School in the UK, Tsuda College in Japan, and the University of Tokyo. Prof. Yakushik also held long-standing positions in Ukraine, notably as Professor of Political Science at the National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”, and as a Professor of Law at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

His research spans the theory of the transitional state, comparative political and legal systems, public law and governance reform, national reconciliation, and strategic narratives in intercultural contexts. A respected public intellectual, Prof. Yakushik has advised parliamentary committees in Ukraine, served on the Presidential Public Humanities Council, and participated in the Civic Council of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was also a member of the Balkans Reconciliation Study Group at ECPD. His insights are frequently featured in international media, including Al Jazeera, Sky News Arabia, Alghad TV, and major networks across India, China, and Vietnam.

Professor Yakushik is the author or co-author of over a dozen books, including An Introduction to Political Science (2012), The State of a Transitional Type (1991), and Social Reformism in the Contemporary World (1990). He has also contributed to significant edited volumes such as The Viral Blow of COVID-19 (2021), The Cost of Reforms (2019), and The Caspian Basin Oil and Its Impact on Eurasian Power Games (1998). His work reflects a sustained engagement with democratic transformation and post-Soviet transitions. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Ukrainian Policymaker and sits on the editorial boards of academic journals in Thailand and Armenia.

He holds a Doctor of Sciences (Habilitation) in Political Science from the Institute of State and Law, Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, a Ph.D. in Law from Kyiv State University, and an LL.M. in International Law with Honours, along with an Interpreter’s Diploma in English and Portuguese, from the same university. 

Professor Yakushik is fluent in Russian, Ukrainian, and English, and has intermediate proficiency in Spanish and Portuguese.