Zheltovskyy Vadym

dr hab. Vadym Zheltovskyy, prof. ucz. – PhD and habilitation in political science (2021), associate professor (2025). Since June 2025 head of the department of law and institutions of the European Union. Head of the Warsaw Division of the Polish Association of European Studies (2022-2026). Head of the NCN Miniatura 6 grant (The influence of political leadership on the revision of the European Union’s eastern policy in the context of the war in Ukraine). Expert of the team of advisors to the Chairwoman of the European Union Committee of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland. Deputy Dean’s Plenipotentiary for Student Affairs, tutor of internships for the BA of European Studies – practical profile. Supervisor of students’ association of International Institutions. He has given presentations among other in Philadelphia, Lisbon, Granada, Cordoba, Florence, Thessaloniki, Greifswald, Klaipeda, Iasi.

Research interests: 

European integration, the institutional dimension of the EU functioning, political leadership, EU-Russia relations, EU institutions towards the Eastern Partnership Policy, the role of political communication in the EU policy-making.

3 recent publications:

Zheltovskyy, V., & Khudoliy, A. (2026). The agency of Verkhovna Rada in the European integration of Ukraine. East European Politics, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/21599165.2026.2663841

Zheltovskyy, V. (2026) . Will a Values-Driven Approach Prevail? EU–Ukraine Relations in Times of War, in: C.Smuniewski, P. Wywiał, B. Bado (eds.) Values and Ethics in Russia’s War Against Ukraine, Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781003745976-11

Zheltovskyy (2024), Poland’s Raison d’etat in the European Union: Enlargement Policy as a Case Study. Politeja, No. 1(88/1), ss. 89-101. DOI: https://doi.org/10.12797/Politeja.20.2024.88.1.06