Anna Grzywacz, Ph.D.

Department of International Organizations and Global Security Studies

Anna Grzywacz holds a PhD in Political Science (International Relations). She graduated in international relations from the Institute of International Relations (East Asia major), Warsaw University. She was a research fellow of the EANGAGE Think Next, Act Next – The Next Gen EU-ASEAN Think Tank Dialogue funded by the European Union (2021–2022). She is an NCN Miniatura 4 and Sonata 17 grant holder. In 2022 she was awarded a scholarship for outstanding young researchers by the Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education. Currently, focusing on the research project ‘Responding to (de)democratisation in ASEAN: strategies of civil society organisations in times of autocratisation’ funded by NCN under the Sonata 17 call.

Research interests:
  • International relations in Southeast Asia
  • ASEAN
  • Foreign policies of Indonesia and Singapore
  • Discursive politics
  • Middle powers
Recent publications:
  • Grzywacz, A., Pendrakowska, P. (2026) Narrating mellowness? Political soundness of “Chinese schools” of international relations, International Journal of Asian Studies 2026, 1–22. doi:10.1017/S1479591426100916.
  • Grzywacz, A. (2025) Embracing human rights norms in non-democratic regional organizations. A case study of ASEAN, International Affairs 2025, vol. 101, no. 5, pp. 1833–1852, doi: 10.1093/ia/iiaf145.
  • Grzywacz, A. (2023) Identity and institutional thickening of Asia and the Pacific: narrating regional belonging in the foreign policy of Indonesia, Political Science 2023, vol. 75, no. 1, 65–83. doi: 10.1080/00323187.2023.2242853.
  • Grzywacz, A. (2021) The Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ narratives of non-compliance with norms: Shaming and escaping a narrative trap, Media, War & Conflict, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 173–191. doi: 10.1177/17506352211053183.
  • Grzywacz, A.; Gawrycki, M. F. (2021) The authoritarian turn of middle powers: changes in narratives and engagement, Third World Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 11, pp. 2629–2650. doi: 10.1080/01436597.2021.1960159.
  • Grzywacz, A. (2020) Indonesia’s (Inter)national Role as a Muslim Democracy Model: Effectiveness and Conflict Between the Conception and Prescription Roles, The Pacific Review, vol. 33, no. 5, pp. 728–756. doi: 10.1080/09512748.2019.1585387.
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