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Position and functions:

Assistant Professor at the Department of National Security of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków

Member of the Council of the Institute of Political Science and International Relations JU (term 2020-2024)

Education:

PhD in Social Sciences (discipline: Political Science), Jagiellonian University in Kraków (2018)

MA in International Relations (specialisation: strategic studies), Jagiellonian University in Kraków (2012)

Scholarships and research stays:

2023:

Baltic Defence College (Tartu, Estonia), research stay

2017:

Multinational Corps North-East (Szczecin, Poland), research stay

Military Training Centre for Foreign Operations (Kielce, Poland), research stay

2016:

CIMIC Centre of Excellence (the Hague, the Netherlands), research stay

Multinational CIMIC Group (Motta di Livenza, Italy), research stay

2015:

NATO Multimedia Library (Bruksela, Belgium), research stay

Antwerp University (Belgium), Faculty of Social Sciences, Erasmus+ scholarship (5 months)

2014:

NATO Civil-Military Cooperation Field Worker Course, Military Training Centre for Foreign Operations (Kielce, Poland)

Module on Common Security and Defence Policy, European Security and Defence College,Institute for Basic Officer Training, Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt (Austria)

2013:

Leader Development and Education for Sustained Peace Course, Centre for Civil-Military Relations, Naval Post-Graduate School, Monterey Bay, California, Jagiellonian University in Kraków

2010:

CIMIC Peacekeeping Intensive Training, Multinational CIMIC Group, (Motta di Livenza, Italy)

UniversitadegliStudi di Padova (Italy), Department of Political Science, Law, and International Studies, Erasmus scholarship (5 months)

Membership in associations:

Member of the Polish International Studies Association

Expertise:

Lectures in the NATO CIMIC Field Worker Course conducted at the Military Training Centre for Foreign Operations (Kielce, Poland)

Coordination of the International Youth Meeting “Europe of Youth – Europe of Peace” (2014, 2015), a series of international projects co-financed by Polish Ministry of Defence and the Malopolska Provincial Office (grant no. 928001)

Courses:

NATO Comprehensive Operations Planning Workshop

Bezpieczeństwo jednostki, jednostka w bezpieczeństwie

Militarne zarządzanie kryzysowe 

NATO - historia, struktura, działanie 

Negocjacje i przywództwo

Violence in International Relations 

Warsztaty badawcze

Human Security

Introduction to Politics

Research interests:

International security

Critical military studies

Military sociology

Strategic culture

Military operations

NATO and EU military doctrines

Civil-military cooperation

Research projects:

Member of an international research team, “Invigorating Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy for a Resilient Europe”, Horizon Europe, funded by the European Commission, 2023-2026

Member of an international research team, “Investigating Non-nuclear Deterrence”, funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York

Member of an international research team, “The Peace and Conflict Resolution Evidence Platform” (PeaceRep – Ukraine), an international research consortium led by the University of Edinburgh and funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office of the UK Government

Member of an international research team, “Future Democracy Lab” Task 4.3. Building resilient democracies: A security-centred approach, funded by the “Excellence Initiative – Research University” at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow

Member of a research team, “Perception and rhetoric in the “frontline states”: Early analysis of the consequences of Russia’s war with Ukraine”, funded by the “Excellence Initiative – Research University" at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow

Member of a research team, "Contemporary military operations - conditions, experiences and prospects for changes on the battlefield”, funded by the In-house Research Fund of the Military Institute of Armament Technology (Zielonka, Poland) (no. S32 / 15/003)

Member of a research team, “Poland's national security in the face of the coronavirus pandemic: internal and international implications”, funded by the SocietyNow! Grant, “Excellence Initiative – Research University” at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow

Member of a research team, “Resilience as a security paradigm in the times of the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of Poland”, funded by the SocietyNow! Grant, “Excellence Initiative – Research University” at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow

Principal investigator in the research project “The influence of roles of civil-military cooperation officers on the effectiveness of their mission in peacekeeping”, financed by the National Science Centre (grant no. 2015/17/N/HS5/00415)

Researcher in an international research project “Social cohesion: a comparative study of Polish-German and Polish-Ukrainian borderline”, financed by the Polish- German Foundation for Science and the Institute of European Studies of Jagiellonian University in Kraków

Publications:

Monographs:

Civil-Military Cooperation in International Interventions: The role of soldiers, Routledge, London-New York 2022.

Articles:

‘The Russia-Ukraine war of 2022: Faces of modern conflict’ edited by Agnieszka Kasińska-Metryka and Karolina Pałka-Suchojad, London and New York, Routledge, 2023, 168 pp., ISBN: 9781032377988, Journal of Contemporary European Studies 31(4), 2023, pp. 1507-1508.

Polish Territorial Defence Forces and Innovation During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Assessment of the Potential of a Mixed-Type Force in Non-Military Crisis Response, Politeja 19 (4(79)), 2022, pp. 187-202.

Współpraca cywilno-wojskowa NATO: oczekiwania i konflikt roli, Sprawy Międzynarodowe 73(3), 2020, pp. 209-228.

Training in Civil-Military Interactions: The Design and Challenges, Bezpieczeństwo: Teoria i Praktyka 36 (3), 2019, pp. 91-102.

Local Spoilers and Pathways to Reconciliation: The Polish Perspective on the Polish-Ukrainian Relations in the Borderlands (coauthor with Maciej Stępka and Marcin Zubek), Politicke Vedy 22 (4), 2019, pp. 8-32.

The Dynamics of the Contemporary Military Role: In Search of Flexibility, Annales UMCK Sectio K Politologia, 25(2), 2018, pp. 7-24.

Between NATO and UN: EU strategic culture and its approach to civil-military cooperation, Obrana a Strategie, 18(1), 2018, pp. 63-78.

NATO and EU approach towards civil-military relations in military operations, Polityka i Społeczeństwo, 2(12), 2014, pp. 125-140.

Does CIMIC make sense? Critical analysis of civil-military cooperation, BiuletynAnaliz Centrum Inicjatyw Międzynarodowych, 4/2014, pp. 17-23.

Economic downfall, democratic upswing? The role of economic crisis in the Arab Spring in Tunisia and Libya, BiuletynAnaliz Centrum InicjatywMiędzynarodowych, 2/2013, pp. 27-34.

DetonacjaRiala, czyli irański kryzys walutowy krok po kroku, Magazyn ARENA Sprawy Międzynarodowe, December 2012, pp. 4-7.

Chapters:

Unravelling the spectacle of militarised border management: The use of Polish Territorial Defence Forces (TDF) in the Polish-Belarussian border crisis (coauthor: Maciej Stępka), [in:] Elżbieta Kużelewska, Agnieszka Kasińska-Metryka, Karolina Pałka-Suchojad, Agnieszka Piekutowska (ed.), Geopolitical and Humanitarian Aspects of the Belarus-EU Border Conflict, Routledge, London-New York 2024.

Civil-Military Cooperation: The Role of Education in Civil-Military (Cultural) Awareness, [in:] Military-Academic Education in the Current International Environment. Proceedings of the 8th Symposium of Military Academies, Ahmed Bin Mohammed Military College, Doha 2023, pp. 156-164.

Współpraca cywilno-wojskowa NATO w regionalnym systemie bezpieczeństwa: CIMIC w reagowaniu kryzysowym i obronie kolektywnej, [in:] Piotr Bajor (ed.), Bezpieczeństwo regionalne – węzłowe problemy i procesy, Wydawnictwo Księgarnia Akademicka, Kraków 2020, pp. 107-118.

The “Polite Ones” in Peacekeeping: Canadian Civil-Military Cooperation, [in:] GrzegorzPożarlik (ed.), Joint Second Cycle Degree in International Relations: Europe from Visegrad Perspective On-line Reader, Kraków 2017, pp. 194-212.

ISIS/Daesh and Human Security in Europe [in:] Maciej Stępka, Marcin Zubek (eds.), Multidimensional Security. Essays on Global Issues and Challenges, Kraków 2016, pp. 45-68.

INGOs as a Contributor to Human Security: A Case Study of Rwanda and South Sudan [in:] GrzegorzPożarlik (ed.), Joint Second Cycle Degree in International Relations: Europe from Visegrad Perspective On-line Reader, Kraków 2015, pp. 87-105.

“Polski model” pojednania: pograniczepolsko-ukraińskie, [in:] Dariusz Niedźwiedzki (ed.), Pamięć i integracja społeczna na pograniczach, Kraków 2015, pp. 187-200.

NATO and the United Nations: A difficult friendship, [in:] Michał Matyasik (ed.), 15 Years of Polish Membership in NATO, Kraków 2014, pp. 99-110.

Reports:

Towards the Frontline States Concept: Understanding the Responses to Russia's War Against Ukraine (PeaceRep report) (coauthor: Wojciech Michnik). Conflict and Civicness Research Group, London School of Economics 2023.

Perception and rhetoric in “Frontline States”: an early assessment of the consequences of Russia's war in Ukraine (LSE IDEAS report) (coeditor: Wojciech Michnik). LSE IDEAS Central and South-Eastern Europe Programme at the Jagiellonian University, Kraków 2023.

Case Study Poland: the involvement of the Polish Armed Forces during the Covid-19 pandemic, [in:] Daniela Braun, Amelie Stelzner-Doğan (ed.), The role of armed forces in the Covid-19 pandemic, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Berlin 2022, str. 56-74.

Popularisation:

Teaching classes about NATO to high school students in cooperation with Fundacja Instytutu Studiów Strategicznych (2020-2021)

Analyses and Commentaries of the Chair in National Security of the JU:

Estonia as a frontline state, KBN Analysis no 14 (129) / 2023, 15 November 2023 r.

One year after Russia’s invasion on Ukraine: Poland as a frontline state, 27.02.2023, KBN Analysis no 2 (117) / 2023, 13 February 2023 r.

Military identity: warriors from GROM, KBN Analysis no 15 (110) / 2022, 11 July 2022 r.

Military identity: The Italian Alpini as peacekeepers, KBN Analysis no 10 (105) / 2022, 31 March 2022 r.

Military identity: Australian warriors, KBN Analysis no 7 (87) / 2021, 12 June 2021 r.

NATO partnership policy – the past, the present and the future, KBN Commentary no 17 (89) / 2021, 31 December 2021 r.

Paradoxes and contradictions of contemporary military engagement – the concept of ambidexterity, KBN Analysis no 15 (79) / 2020, 03 December 2020.

Implikacje wykorzystania Sił Zbrojnych RP do walki z COVID-19, KBN Analysis series C no 6 (68) / 2020, 29 July 2020.

Soldier’s identity: A warrior and a peacekeeper, KBN Analysis no 3 (55) / 2020, 17 February 2020.

The regulation of soldiers’ appearance in the Polish Armed Forces, KBN Analysis no 12 (51) / 2019, 16 November 2019.

LSE Ideas blog: The Curious Case of the COVID-19 Crisis and the Militarisation of Resilience (coauthor: Maciej Stępka), LSE IDEAS Jagiellonian Forum Blog, LSE IDEAS CSEEP at the Jagiellonian University, 07.12.2021.

Online seminar „Wpływ pandemii COVID-19 na system bezpieczeństwa międzynarodowego”, as a part of the „Global Tuesdays” seminar organised by Global Trends Lab in cooperation with Popularisation Gate as part of the Excellence Initiative

Scientific conferences:

2023:

“Think tanks, knowledge and European security”, international workshop at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, title: Civil-military interactions in NATO frontline states' strategic discourse (presentation in English)

8th International Symposium of Military Academies, international conference, Ahmed Bin Mohammed Military College, Doha, Qatar, title: Civil-Military Cooperation: The Role of Education in Civil-Military (Cultural) Awareness (presentation in English)

IV Ogólnopolski Kongres Europeistyki: Jaka Europa? Napięcia integracji europejskiej w dobie kryzysów, conference at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, title: Pomiędzy realizmem a kompleksowym podejściem do bezpieczeństwa: Wizje bezpieczeństwa w dyskursie strategicznym państw członkowskich NATO (presentation in Polish)

Ukraine’s Place in a Fragmented World Order, international workshop by PeaceRep Ukraine in the Institute of Human Sciences, Vienna, title: Recalibrating national security agendas in the NATO frontline states after Russia’s aggression on Ukraine. Between comprehensive approach and the return of realism (presentation in English)

20th IMISCOE Annual Conference, international conference by IMISCOE at the Warsaw University, title: Unravelling the spectacle of militarised border management. The use of Polish Territorial Defence Forces (TDF) in the Polish-Belarussian border crisis (presentation in English, copresented with Maciej Stępka)

W służbie pokoju – mechanizmy reagowania kryzysowego w międzynarodowym środowisku bezpieczeństwa, conference at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, title: Współpraca cywilno-wojskowa jako element reagowania kryzysowego w międzynarodowych działaniach na rzecz wsparcia pokoju? (presentation in Polish)

2022:

IV Jagiellońska Konferencja Bezpieczeństwa: Środowisko bezpieczeństwa - bezpieczeństwo środowiska?, conference at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, title: Wpływ środowiska bezpieczeństwa na kształtowanie wizerunku polskich Wojsk Obrony Terytorialnej (presentation in Polish)

I Ogólnopolska Konferencja Naukowa: Współczesne uwarunkowania bezpieczeństwa militarnego, conference at the gen. Tadeusz Kościuszko Military University of Land Forces, title: Działania o charakterze hybrydowym a tożsamość żołnierza (presentation in Polish)

2021:

Civil Engagement and Participation in Defence Conference, international conference by STRATPOL - Strategic Policy Institute, expert panel on Reserves, Active Reserves, and other Volunteers Based Armed Formations (presentation in English)

2019:

III Jagiellońska Konferencj aBezpieczeństwa: Systemy bezpieczeństwa: wymiar lokalny, regionalny i globalny, national conference at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, title:Współpracacywilno-wojskowa NATO w regionalnym systemie bezpieczeństwa

2017:

Looking Backwards to Go Forwards? Europe at Crossroads, international conference atthe Newcastle University, title: NATO and the EU: Towards Civil-Military Relations in Military Operations

2016:

DevSec 2016: Development and Security in a Contemporary Conflict Zones Migration Crisis, Lessons Learned and Future Opportunities, international conference at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, title: The Theory and Practice of NATO Civil-Military Cooperation: Operational Identity of CIMIC

2014:

NATO Crisis Assessment and Management, international conference at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, title: Comprehensive Approach in NATO, UN and EU Documents

15 Years of Polish Membership in NATO. Experiences and Future Challenges, international conference at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, title: NATO and the UN: Fraternity and Friction

Social Cohesion: Comparative Study of Polish-Ukrainian and Polish-German Transborder Regions, international conference at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, title: Coexistence or Reconciliation? Intercommunity Relations in the Polish-Ukrainian Transborder Region

2013:

8th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, international conference at the University of Warsaw, title: Cooperation vs. Competition: The Question of Comprehensive Approach within NATO’s Civil-Military Cooperation

Asia in 21st Century: Challenges, Dilemmas, Perspectives, international conference at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, title: Is the Society a Contradiction for the Military? The question of Civil-Military Cooperation in Iraq

The Past and Present of North America, national conference at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, title: The Polite Ones in Peacekeeping: Canadian Civil-Military Cooperation

Wielowymiarowośćbezpieczeństwa, national conference atthe Warsaw University of Life Sciences, title: Współpracadlabezpieczeństwa: współpracacywilno-wojskowa w peacekeepingu

Wschód – NieZawszeDaleki (II Edition), national conference atthe Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, title: Reconstructing Afghanistan: Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Civil-Military Cooperation