WP5 aims to develop a critical and comprehensive diagnosis of the role of emotions in the (de)legitimisation of the international value-based liberal order. Accordingly, the group's work will focus on examining: processes of contestation of multilateralism (who, why and how liberal principles, patterns and mechanisms of regional and global multilateral cooperation are contested). Perceptions and misperceptions of democracy will also be addressed.
The research team's work revolves around 3 main tasks, the first of which will be theoretical and the other two empirical, looking at European Union policies that reinforce the liberal order (trying to explain their effectiveness / or lack thereof), integrating the emotional dimension of politics. Moreover, WP5 aims to study processes outside Europe in other regions of the world (e.g. Asia, Africa) to better understand the complexity and causality of the international order.
The research will focus on 3 main themes:
- Developing a methodology to analyse the role of emotions and their significance in contemporary international relations.... (Task 5.1 Title: Emotions and the dynamics of the international liberal order: Exploring a methodological framework)
- Identifying and mapping the role and significance of emotions in the (de)legitimisation of the international liberal value-based order in the regional-European dimension (Task 5.2 Title: Normative Power Europe: (de)Europeanisation, contestation and differentiation of EU foreign policy)
- Exploring and analysing the intersections between emotion and populism and the transformation of democracy in the context of international relations studies (Task 5.3 The many faces of democracy: perception and misperception as a challenge to building a stable, coherent, and legitimised international liberal order globally ).
Team leader: Joanna Dyduch,
Co-leader: Artur Skorek
Joanna Dyduch - Professor at the Institute of the Middle and Far East of the Jagiellonian University, head of the Department of Israel. Recently her research interest has focused on European-Israeli relations, as well as Israel’s energy and invocation policy. Her research interests lie in the area of Israeli and European studies, with particular emphasis on the analysis of public policies (including foreign policy, security policy, and energy policy). Joanna is an author of several scientific articles and books on foreign policy analysis and Europeanisation processes in the field of EU member states’ foreign policy as well as EU external relations. Recently her research interest concentrates on European-Israeli relations, as well as Israel’s energy and invocation policy. She is also engaged in national and international research projects
Visiting lecturer at the University of Potsdam in 2020, at the Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica in 2019, and at the University of Vienna in 2017. In 2022 she completed a research stay at the University of Maryland (USA) and in 2018 she was a research fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in 2018. From 2023 to 2024, a visiting scholar at the University of Oxford (stipend granted by the Polish National Agency for the Academic Exchange).
Joanna Dyduch has also served as a Board member of the Polish Association of European Studies, a Board of Directors of the Association of Israel Studies (2022-2025), from 2021 Member of the Advisory Board of the Israel Institute, and President of the European Association of Israel Studies (2018-2022). Currently she is a board member at https://www.israelstudies.eu/
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4879-5079
Academia.edu: https://uj-pl.academia.edu/JoannaDyduch
Researchgate.net: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joanna_Dyduch
Artur Skorek – assistant professor at the Institute of the Middle and Far East, Jagiellonian University in Krakow (UJ), chairperson of the European Association of Israel Studies, a political scientist specializing in Israel and international relations. He holds a Ph.D. in international relations and an M.A. in international relations and religion studies from UJ. His research spans the areas of the political system in Israel, religion in international relations and foreign policies; security in the Middle East. He is the author of two books on the Israeli political system (in Polish: ‘Jewish Religious Parties’, Nomos 2015; co-authored ‘Israeli Democracy’, PWN 2018) and 30 academic papers. He was a member of the School of Administration in Bielsko-Biala’s Senate and an editor of the academic journal “Gentes& Nationes”.
Marcin Grabowski, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Political Science and International Relations of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow and the Director of the Centre for International Studies and Development.
Marcin has graduated in International Relations from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. He studied at Columbia University in the City of New York (School of International and Public Affairs), George Washington University in Washington (Sigur Center for Asian Studies), and the University of California, San Diego, where he completed the Global Leadership Institute program.
He served as an advisor to the Polish Minister of Higher Education and Science – in the framework of the Young Scholars’ Council (2011-2013). He is a member of the Executive Council of the Central and Eastern European International Studies Association (CEEISA) for the terms 2019-2022 and 2022-2025, the Chairman of the Krakow branch of the Polish International Studies Association, as well as a member of the Executive Committee and Treasurer of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI).
Marcin’s research interests focus on the Asia-Pacific Rim, especially institutional arrangements of the region (APEC, ASEM, ASEAN, EAS, ARF, SAARC), American and Chinese foreign policies, theories of IR, and International Economics. He conducted his research i.a. at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore, the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy in Seoul, the Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies of the Waseda University in Tokyo, the East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) in Canberra, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies in Copenhagen, Berkeley APEC Study Center or Reischauer Center for East Asia Studies, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University. He was teaching at numerous universities, including Manipal University (India), University of Calcutta (India), Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Spain), Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel), and University College Cork (Ireland).
Magdalena Kozub-Karkut, Ph.D. - is a political scientist and an assistant professor at the Institute of Political Science and International Relations – Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Her research focuses on IR theories, Foreign Policy Analysis, and global governance. She is the author of two monographs (2015, 2020) as well as many articles and book chapters on these issues. She took part in many international workshops and conferences and is a member of the Polish International Studies Association (PTSM), Polish Political Science Association (PTNP), International Studies Association (ISA), and European International Studies Association (EISA). Since 2023 she has also been a member of the EISA Governing Board.
Dr. Patrick Mendis is a former American diplomat at the US Department of State and a military professor in the NATO and the Indo-Pacific Commands of the US Department of Defense. Prof. Mendis is currently serving as a distinguished visiting professor of transatlantic relations at the University of Warsaw in Poland. Author of more than 150 books, government reports, journal articles, and newspaper columns, Prof. Mendis is an alumnus of the University of Minnesota’s Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. For more information, see: www.patrickmendis.com.
Dr Antonina Łuszczykiewicz - cultural studies scholar, recipient of international grants and fellowships, including an American-Polish Kosciuszko Foundation grant for a research stay at Indiana University (USA), a Confucian scholarship at Xi'an Jiaotong Daxue University (China) and a MOFA Taiwan Fellowship for research at Tamkang University (Taiwan). She is the author of many books and articles on Sino-Indian relations and the portrayal of Indians and Chinese in literature and film.
Marcin Zubek holds a Ph.D. in political science and a post of Assistant Professor at the Institute of European Studies, Jagiellonian University (JU), where he also obtained his MA in European Studies. His academic interests revolve around European Foreign Policy, peacebuilding processes in the post-conflict environment as well as parliamentary control of foreign and security policy.
He has been a researcher and coordinator in a number of national and international research and educational projects, including the Jean Monnet Monnet Networks, Modules as well as Horizon 2020.