Team WP 1.6 - Think-thank activities - Future Democracy Lab

Team WP 1.6 - Think tank activities

WP6 carries out tasks related to the dissemination of the results of research carried out under the project, including through active cooperation with national and international partners, the organisation of scientific events, cooperation with networks created by scientific units and think tanks, such as the LSE IDEAS Central and South-East Europe Programme at the Jagiellonian University.

Prof. ŁukŁukasz Kamieńskiasz Kamieński holds a Ph.D. in political science from the Jagiellonian University (2005) as well as an M.Sc. in International Relations (LSE, 2001) and M.A. in political science (Jagiellonian University, 2000). He was a Visiting Fellow at LSE IDEAS (2019), the Centre for International Studies at LSE (2011), and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California (2003). Prof. Kamieński is also the director of the Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora at the Jagiellonian University (2020-2024). His publications include: Shooting Up: A History of Drugs in Warfare (C Hurst & Co. Publishers, 2017), which has been translated into several languages.

E-mail: lukasz.kamienski@uj.edu.pl

Wojciech MichnikWojciech Michnik holds a Ph.D. in International Relations and is currently an assistant professor of International Relations and Security Studies at Jagiellonian University and a research scholar at the University of Arizona as a recipient of the 2023-24 Fulbright_NATO Security Studies Award. In 2019, he served as the Eisenhower Defense Fellow at the NATO Defense College in Rome. Previously he taught for over two years at the American University in the Emirates in Dubai and served as a Fulbright visiting scholar at Columbia University’s Harriman Institute in 2015-2016. In 2014, he worked as a foreign and security policy analyst at the Department of the Americas, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland.

Johann Kattenstroth is a current PhD Student of International Security, with a focus on European Intelligence cooperation. Current active Reserve Soldier formerly in active service in the German Armed Forces and former paramedic, turned graduate of Risk and Security Management and of a Masters degree in International Security and Development. Operations associate at a South African commercial intelligence and risk management firm. 

Stuart Austin studied History BA at the University of Kent in Canterbury, then completed an MSc in History of International Relations at LSE. He has worked in several Government Departments in the years between then and now: Exiting the European Union; Home Office; Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. Since then, he has joined LSE IDEAS, as Research Assistant to the Engelsberg Chair for History and International Affairs – most recently Prof Margaret MacMillan – as well as Programme Assistant to Global Strategies and to the Conflict and Civicness Research Group. Stuart is currently both manager of the Central and South-East Europe Programme (CSEEP) and Publications Editor at LSE IDEAS.