Karolina Kluczewska is an assistant professor at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She also remains affiliated with the Robert Zajonc Institute for Social Studies at the University of Warsaw, as well as the University of St Andrews where she obtained her PhD in International Relations.
Her research focuses on critical geopolitics, international organisations, migration and welfare in post-socialist contexts, particularly in Central Asia and Eastern Europe.
Previously, Dr Kluczewska held research and teaching positions at Ghent University in Belgium, Academy of International Affairs NRW, Centre for Global Cooperation Research at the University of Duisburg-Essen, University of Marburg, University of Giessen in Germany, Tajik National University in Tajikistan, Tomsk State University in Russia and University Sorbonne Paris Nord in France. She was a visiting scholar at the United Nations University-Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies in Belgium, Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies in Germany and Higher School of Economics in Russia. Besides her academic activities, she has practical experience in development cooperation, having worked for the International Organization for Migration and Eurasia Foundation of Central Asia-Tajikistan.
Research interests
- International political sociology
- Critical geopolitics
- Welfare politics and social policy
- Global East
- Political ethnography and collaborative research methods
Recent publications
- Samadov, R. and Kluczewska, K. 2026. ‘Masculine Hierarchies in Migrant Homosocial Workspaces: Dominating and Subordinating Masculinities of Tajik Labour Migrants in Russia’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 52(11), 3086–3105, doi:1080/1369183X.2025.2582666
- Kluczewska, K. and Luciani, L. ‘Framing Feminism in Eurasia: Bottom-up Strategies of Depoliticisation and Repoliticisation’, European Journal of Politics and Gender, online first, doi:10.1332/25151088Y2025D000000090
- Kluczewska, K. and Silvan, K. 2025. ‘Post-Soviet Dependence with Benefits? Critical Geopolitics of Belarus’s and Tajikistan’s Strategic Alignment with Russia’, Geopolitics, 30(2), pp. 641-678, doi:1080/14650045.2024.2368621
- Kluczewska, K. 2024. ‘Family-centred World Ordering: Polish Civil Society Seeking Remedies to the World in Crisis’, Global Studies Quarterly, 4(3), ksae067, doi:1093/isagsq/ksae067
- Kluczewska, K. 2024. ‘Post-Soviet Power Hierarchies in the Making: Postcolonialism in Tajikistan’s Relations with Russia’, Review of International Studies, 50(4), pp. 777-797, doi:1017/S0260210524000287
- Lottholz, P. and Kluczewska, K. 2024. ‘Still Engaging, not Avoiding, Contradictions: Conceptualizing Cooperative Research in Practical, Structural and Epistemic Terms’, International Political Sociology,I8(4), olae033, doi:1093/ips/olae033
External links
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0349-4443
Most publications are available on Academia.edu
