Aleksandra Spalińska, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences. Moreover, she is a Research Associate at the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, and a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute. Spalińska has received her Ph.D. at the University of Warsaw (September 2024). She holds B.A. in European Studies and M.A. in Political Science (also from the University of Warsaw).
Due to her position at the University of Sussex, she coordinates the Societal Multiplicity Research Programme (in International Relations), in collaboration with Prof. Justin Rosenberg. In 2024-2026, she is co-chairing (with Dr. Jochen Kleinschmidt) a Standing Section “Exploring World Politics Beyond the State System: Spaces, Relations, and Struggles” at the European International Studies Association (EISA). This section supports research on non-state actors, non-state-centric theorisations of the international, political development, and the contestation of the state power.
Research interests:
- IR theory and knowledge production in IR.
- Medievalism in knowledge production in IR and comparative politics.
- Polity formation (Rokkan, Bartolini), political development in Europe, and European integration.
- Non-state actors in world politics and quasi-independent entities.
Major publications:
- “Idea of the New Medievalism and European (Dis)integration” (in Polish), Rambler Press, Warsaw, 2017.
- “The Political and Authority Between the Archetype of Polis and the Universe of New Medievalism” (in Polish), Adam Marszalek Publishing House, 2019.
- “New Medievalism (Re)appraised: Framing Heterarchy in World Politics” (chapter) in “Heterarchy in World Politics,” ed. by Philip G. Cerny, London-New York: Routledge, 2022.
- “From World Politics to Time Epistemics: a Story of a Certain Scholar” (chapter) in “Palgrave Handbook of Global Politics in the 22nd Century,” ed. by Laura Horn, Franziska Muller, and Aysem Mert, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
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