Wojciuk Anna
dr hab. Anna Wojciuk, prof. ucz. – PhD in Political Science (2017), served as a board member of the European International Studies Association from 2017 to 2019. Between 2017 and 2018, she was a board member and treasurer of the International Political Sociology Section of the International Studies Association. From 2017 to 2018, she was the Acting Chair of the Warsaw Branch of the Polish Association for International Studies (previously serving as the Secretary of the Warsaw Branch from 2011 to 2016).
She is the principal investigator of several NCN (National Science Centre) research projects: “Populists from semi-peripheral states as decision-makers in foreign policy – ideational structures and practices” (since 2022), “Between normative threat and soft power: A study of institutional diffusion from the perspective of international relations theory” (2018-2020), and “Education as a new source of international state power” (2012-2015). She has also been a key researcher and collaborator in two other NCN projects.
Dr. Wojciuk has conducted research in the United States and Europe at prestigious institutions such as Harvard University (Department of Government and Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Visiting Fellow, 2008/2009), Columbia University in New York (School of International and Public Affairs, Visiting Scholar, 2008), Cornell University (Visiting Scholar, 2016), the European University Institute in Florence (Visiting Scholar, 2013; Braudel Fellow, 2017/2018 and 2024), CERI Sciences-Po in Paris (Chercheur Invité, 2009), and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Aix-en-Provence (2003/2004). She participated in the Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University in 2014 (qualitative methods) and the Essex Summer School in Social Science and Data Analysis in 2011 (regression applications and comparative research methods). Dr. Wojciuk has lectured at the University of Copenhagen, Aarhus University, and the University of Barcelona. She was awarded the 2014 Minister of Science’s competition for scholarships for young, outstanding scientists. Dr. Wojciuk was also a Kosciuszko Foundation Fellow (2008/2009) and won the J. Kukułka Award (2011) for the best doctoral dissertation on theoretical aspects of international relations.
Research interests
International relations theory, particularly studies on power and institutions in international relations, foreign policy of populists, issues related to the evolution of the international order, international security, as well as decentralization and multilevel governance.
Unit
Department of Methodology of Political Science
Recent publications:
A. Wojciuk, M.A. Górecki, B. Kowalski, How can you help us, Mr Darwin? Social Darwinism in the history of Chinese international thought. Review of International Studies. Published online 2024:1-19. doi:10.1017/S0260210524000585
A.Wojciuk, Balancing is in the Eye of the Beholder. Explaining the Critical Case of Late Imperial China, The Chinese Journal of International Politics, 14/4, 2021, 530-553, https://academic.oup.com/cjip/article/14/4/530/6468679.
A. Wojciuk, Empires of Knowledge in International Relations. Education and Science as Sources of Power for the State, Routledge: London, 2018.
