Curanović Alicja

Alicja Curanović – doctor habilis in Political Sciences (2019), research and didactic worker at the
Department of Political Sciences and International Studies of the University of Warsaw. Head of the
research project “The Concept of Mission in the Foreign Policy the Russian Federation and of the
USA” (awarded by the Aurora Consortium, the Erasmus Mundus programme 2014); the NCN grant
“Mission in the foreign policy of the Russian Federation” (Sonata, 2015-2021) and the NCN grant
“The Idea of (In)justice in the Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation” (Opus, since 2023).
Scholarship holder of the Polish Science Foundation (START edition 2011 and 2012), the Kościuszko
Foundation (research at Stanford University, 2013), the Senior Award of Polish-American Fulbright
Commission (research at Harvard University, 2018). Laureate of the Ministry of Science and Higher
Education Scholarship for Young Outstanding Scientists (2014-2017). Recipient of the Aleksanteri
Institute fellowship (2022) and the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia (2023). In
the years 2009-2023 she gave lectures, i.a. in Moscow, Perm, New York, Philadelphia, Washington,
Uppsala, Helsinki, Tartu, Berlin, Zurich, Prague, Tbilisi, Bologna, Istanbul, Paris, London.

Research interests:
The importance of identity, status and perception for the international activity of states, ontological
security, messianism and the religious factor in foreign policy, Russia’s foreign policy, international
relations in the Post-Soviet area and in Central Europe.

The latest publications:
– The Sense of Mission in Russian Foreign Policy. Destined for Greatness!, London-New York,
Routledge 2021.
– with Piotr Szymański, Mission saves us all: Great Russia and Global Britain dealing with
ontological insecurity, “International Relations”, link:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00471178221140093
– Domestic Lobbyists and Conservatism in Russian Foreign Policy, in: Ferrari, Aldo, Tafuro
Ambrosetti, Eleonora [red.], Russia’s Foreign Policy: The Internal-International Link, ISPI Report,
Milan 2021, p. 37-64, link: https://www.ispionline.it/en/pubblicazione/russias-foreign-policy-
internal-international-link-30506
– The Phantomic Nature of Missionary Nationalism in a Former Empire: The Case of Russia,
in: Jacob, Frank, Schapkov, Carsten edd., Nationalism in a Transnational Age Irrational Fears and
the Strategic Abuse of Nationalist Pride, Oldenbourg, De Gruyter 2021, p. 69-90. Link:
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110729290-004/html?lang=en