Jacek Czaputowicz

University of Warsaw | UW · Institute of European Studies, Faculty of Journalism and Political Sciences

This article analyses European studies in Poland a quarter-century after the fall of communism. Based on the quantitative and qualitative examination of research articles and PhD dissertations, as well as the results of the latest Teaching, Research and International Policy survey, it concludes that ES in Poland is a multi-disciplinary field of res...

Analysis of the historical and institutional factors that have affected the development of International Relations in Poland has revealed the detrimental impact of the communist era over the past quarter-century. The continuity of the pre-war Polish traditions of political thinking about international relations has been severed, and IR became an ar...

This chapter covers the development of International Relations post-1989, once Poland had regained sovereignty, censorship ended, and Marxism ceased to be the official ideology. This period has been characterized by its rapid quantitative development of IR students and academic programs, but the quality of teaching remained low. The chapter shows t...

This chapter presents International Relations as a scholarly discipline and its developmental models in different states. It analyzes the historical development of the field, institutional setups, disciplinary power, as well as the theoretical and methodological preferences in the discipline in the USA, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Spain, Ger...

This chapter shows the origins of Polish IR by referring briefly to early modern times, discussing nineteenth-century developments of political thought about international relations, and finally by analyzing the beginning of the academic discipline in the interwar period. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Poland’s territories were divide...

This chapter systematically analyzes publications and Ph.D. dissertations with regard to their content, topics, methodology, theoretical approaches, author’s gender, and geographical region of focus. It consists of a quantitative part (analysis of 935 articles published in top academic journals between 2007 and 2012, and 339 doctoral dissertations...

This chapter discusses the development of Polish IR under communism, when Marxism as the dominant ideology was imposed on the social sciences. Polish political studies were at that time separated from Western thought. From 1950 to 1970 international relations studies were conducted in non-university research centers, e.g., the Polish Institute of I...

You can find it here: https://bit.ly/2H0rXny."This book is the most comprehensive and critical analysis to date of how the International Relations discipline was cultivated in Poland during the last 100 years. It adds valuable knowledge to the big picture of discipline and diversity in Europe and provides an excellent platform for disciplinary refo...

The paper discusses the state of International Relations (IR) in Poland. In the first part, it shows IR's history, institutional conditions, and its level of internationalisation, particularly the influence of Polish scholars working in the West on the development of the discipline. In the second part, it offers a systematic empirical analysis of I...

The paper discusses the state of International Relations (IR) in Poland. In the first part, it shows IR’s history, institutional conditions, and its level of internationalisation, particularly the influence of Polish scholars working in the West on the development of the discipline. In the second part, it offers a systematic empirical analysis of I...

In 2014, Poland was the first Central and Eastern European (CEE) country to be included in the Teaching, Research, and International Policy (TRIP) project. This article characterizes the Polish International Relations (IR) scholarly community and compares it with other IR scholarly communities throughout the world that also participated in the 2014...

The paper discusses various theoretical explanations of the European cooperation in the field of security and defence. According to realist explanations this cooperation was a response to external evolutions in the international system, i.e. changes in polarity and distribution of power. Liberals say that it was rather due to internal factors. Cons...

The discussion gathered acknowledged researchers from the region and countries of the West who for years have been engaged in the development of International Relations in the Central and Eastern Europe. The academics analyse strong and weak points of the discipline regarding heritage, organization, research methods and human resources. They delibe...

The subject of this article is the state of the discipline of International Relations (IR) in Poland. In the communist era, IR was an arena of ideological confrontation. The political science approach was based on Marxist ideology. The transformation after 1989 can be described as a transition from real socialism to common sense realism, and hence...