Department of European Studies

I. General description of conducted and planned research by the Department of European Studies IPS, PAS for 2021-2030:

• 1. European Union as a geopolitical and geoeconomic subject in a (post)pandemic world.
• 2. Poland in the European Union. Successes and failures (2004-2024).
• 3. European Union in the budgetary perspective for years 2021-2027 – chances and threats, especially related to Polish raison d’etat.
• 4. Cooperation of Poland, Germany and France within the framework of a Weimar Triangle.
• 5. International policy of Turkey especially in the context of Russo-Ukrainian war.
• 6. The Rise of geopolitical assertiveness of Turkey and the new international order.
• 7. Positive and negative factors of Ukrainian membership in the EU.
• 8. Contemporary diplomacy.
• 9. Selected Balkan states and their health policies.
• 10. The essence of Russia and China’s propaganda strategies in light of the Russo-Ukrainian war.

II. Detailed list of Department’s members tasks – according to their Individual Research Plans:

• 1. Professor J. M. Fiszer:
  – Poland in the budgetary perspective for years 2021-2027 – reports, research results and an article.
  – The importance of the European Union for the European integration and security from 1993 to 2024 – article to be published by the scientific journal.
  – Poland-Europe-World. Systemic analysis (1989-2024). – monography for approximately 2 publishing sheets.
  – Poland’s position on Russian aggression on Ukraine and possibility of Ukrainian accession to the EU and NATO – chapter in a joint publication edited by J. M. Fiszer titled The Russo-Ukrainian war – conditions and implications for security and integration of East-Central European State
  – scientific conference and preparing a paper Polish national sovereignty and cultural identity after 20 years in the European Union and editing of the post-conference joint publication: Józef M. Fiszer (ed.) 20 years of Poland in the European Union. Evaluation attempt and what comes next?
  – Participation in the 6. Political Sciences Congress – “Future Politics”, 18-20.09.2024. Submission of a discussion panel entitled Opportunities and threats for the European Union in the emerging new international order – its structure and nature. Also delivering a speech in a different discussion panel; paper’s title: Positive and negative impact of the political transformation and Europeanisation on the democratisation in Poland after 1989
• 2. Professor Ryszard Żelichowski:
  – Results of a military intervention. Dutch “police actions” in Indonesia from 1947 to 1949 – scientific article.
  – Ad hoc political parties in the political system of the Kingdom of the Netherlands – paper and scientific article.
  – The European Union personification in the policies of PiS – Paper for the conference and post-conference joint publication: Józef M. Fiszer (ed.) 20 years of Poland in the European Union. Evaluation attempt and what comes next?
• 3. Professor Paweł Olszewski:
  – European integration and its influence on health policies of the candidate states aspiring to the EU standards and regulations – two publications planned.
  – The path of the Western Balkan countries to the European Union – article and a grant submission to the National Science Centre.
  – Poland in the European Union – the way and the continuance – paper for the conference and post-conference joint publication: Józef M. Fiszer (ed.) 20 years of Poland in the European Union. Evaluation attempt and what comes next?
• 4. Professor Jakub Wódka:
  –Contemporary diplomacy. Academic handbook.
  –Authonomy, contestation, adaptation. Turkish foreign policy towards shifts in the international order – article.
  –Impaft of the technological advancements on contemporaty diplomacy – article.
  – Polish stance towards the idea of the European Union’s strategic authonomy – paper for the conference and post-conference joint publication: Józef M. Fiszer (ed.) 20 years of Poland in the European Union. Evaluation attempt and what comes next?
• 5. Oleksii Polegkyi, Ph.D.:
  –War as an inherent element of the Russian political system: implications for the regime’s stability and state’s integrity – article.
  – Shaping of the of the national identity in the conditions of an existential threat: cases of Ukraine and Taiwan – paper at the international conference and an article published in “The Polish Political Science Yearbook”.
• 6. Mateusz Czasak, MA
  –Franco-German relations 30 years since the Maastricht treaty – current state and perspectives – article to be published in “Studia Polityczne”.
  –Changes in Germany’s foreign policy regarding to the war in Ukraine – chapter in a joint publication edited by Adrian Chojan, titled “Europe during the war in Ukraine”.
  –Franco-German military and armaments cooperation. Current state and perspectives – article to be published in “Economic and Political Thought”.

The results of conducted research, both theoretically and practically, will take form of books, articles, studies, research reports and expertises, which in total will have a big impact on the development of the discipline of Political Science and Public Administration in Poland and for Polish foreign policy.