Eastern Chessboard: Geopolitical Determinants and Challenges in Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus

Authors

Piotr Bajor (ed)
Jagiellonian University, Kraków
Kamila Schöll-Mazurek (ed)
Jagiellonian University, Kraków

Keywords:

Russian annexation of Crimea, Ukraine’s security, foreign policy, European identity

Synopsis

What is going on east of the West becomes more and more important in today’s world. This book gives very good insight into the issue, especially what concerns Ukraine, Moldova and Armenia. Different countries, with different problems but one in common – Russian influence and tensions that it generates. […] Good book conceived by good team of authors from several countries, working together within a framework of well organized international research project.

Ph. D. Marek Czajkowski

Chapters

Author Biographies

Piotr Bajor, Jagiellonian University, Kraków

Ph.D., Assistant Professor at Faculty of International and Political Studies, Jagiellonian university in Kraków (Poland). He is also an journalist and columnist for prestigious magazines in Poland.

Kamila Schöll-Mazurek, Jagiellonian University, Kraków

Jean-Monnet Program, Fellow at the European University Viadrina, graduate of doctoral studies at Jagiellonian University.

Joanna Fomina

Ph.D., Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Her academic interests include EU migration and migrant integration policy, euroscepticism, EU Eastern Partnership policy and democratisation and transformation in Eastern Europe.

Olena Bordilovska

Ph.D., Associate Professor, Institute of International Relations Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University

Tomasz Stępniewski

Doctor Habilitatus, Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, Poland. Associate professor at the Institute of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin and Institute of East- Central Europe (IESW), Lublin. He is interested in European Union’s eastern policy, international relations on the area of the Commonwealth of Independent States and Russia’s policy towards Eastern Europe.

Mykola Doroshko

Doctor of History, Professor, Deputy Director for Research of the Institute of International Relations of Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University.

Roman Kryvonos

Doctor, Professor, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Institute of International Relations, Chair of Country Studies.

Vahe Khumaryan

Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) State University (Yerevan, Armenia) and University of Tartu (Estonia).

Song Lilei

An associate professor at the Institute of Central and Eastern Europe Studies, Tongji University, Shanghai

Ren Sang

Graduate student in School of political science and International Relations Tongji University, Shanghai.

Jeffrey Ellison Brown

A graduate of the Transatlantic Masters Program at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, where he focused on Europeanization and the European Neighborhood Policy. Following a stint at the U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi,
Georgia, he relocated to Washington, DC, where he currently works as a project manager at a think tank specializing in US-EU relations.

Małgorzata Sikora-Gaca

Ph.D., Political Science; Assistant at Humanities Department of Politechnika Koszalińska in Poland.

Michèle Knodt

Prof. Dr., Jean Monnet Professor for Comparative Politics and European Integration at the Institute for Political Science at the Technical University of Darmstadt. Her research interests include EU external governance and cooperation with emerging powers, EU multi-level governance and democracy promotion of the EU. She has a geographical focus on European Neighbourhood partner countries, BRICS and Latin America.

Sigita Urdze

Dr., Researcher at the Institute for Political Science at the Technical University of Darmstadt. Her research interests include EU external governance and democracy promotion. She has a geographical focus on European Neighborhood partner countries, Central Asia and the Baltic States.

Moritz Esken

M.A. International Relations & Development Policy, Research Assistant at the German Police University. Author at the Cologne Forum for International Relations & Security Policy.

Narek S. Galstyan

Ph.D. in Political Sciences, Associate Professor at Yerevan State University. He teaches also at the Centre for European Studies (at YSU). Research interests: Area and European Studies, Europeanization, EU’s CFSP and CSDP, Small States.

Abraham Gasparyan

Ph.D. in Political Sciences, Assistant Professor at Yerevan State University, Armenia.

Hayrapetyan Grigor

Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of International Economic Relations, Faculty of Economics, Yerevan State University, Armenia.

Aram Terzyan

Ph.D. in Political Science, Assistant Professor, Yerevan State University.

Natalia Adamczyk

Ph.D. student at the Faculty of Law, Administration and International Relations of Krakowska Akademia in the discipline of Political Science. Research interests include the issues of the European Union’s Eastern Policy, in particular the Eastern Partnership and issues concerning the Polish Eastern Policy.

Hayrapetyan Viktoriya

Ph.D., Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics and Finance, Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University.

Published

July 25, 2015

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ISBN-13 (15)

978-83-7638-670-6