Department of International Organizations and Global Security Studies

Research areas

Research in the Department focuses on analysing global trends, challenges and ways of managing those, especially within the framework of international organisations. Shifts in global economic ties and the crisis of the liberal international order create a need for in-depth comparative studies on a transformation of multilateralism, global and regional international organisations and great powers’ policies toward those. This should be complemented with in-depth scholarly reflection on the transformation of the states confronted with internal and external challenges, notably related to security, climate change and migrations. Members of the Department research the European Union, NATO, regional integration and cross-border cooperation in Eastern and Southern Asia, as well as research on internal determinants and transformations in states such as China, France, India, Indonesia, Mongolia, Germany, and Poland.

Ongoing research projects conducted by members of the Department focus on diverse EU integration and disintegration, EU’s foreign and security policies, which include institutional determinants and decision-making process, a strategy of civil society organisations in times of authocratization on the example of a regional organisation ASEAN, strategy of resistance and nonviolent action in Eastern Europe, states’ resilience to hybrid warfare threats, but also sedentarisation and urbanisation in the postnomadic areas of China and Mongolia.

Since 2024, some Department members have been carrying out the SAUFEX project, financed by the European Commission within the Horizon Europa framework. The project aims to develop and improve methods of finding, analysing, and counteracting foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI). This includes increasing the resilience of EU states to hybrid threats related to misinformation.

Furthermore, the Department organises a research seminar dedicated to new theoretical and methodological approaches in international relations and their empirical application. We host outstanding scientists and prominent researchers from leading European academic centres and beyond.