We would like to inform that Krystian Spodaryk, PhD, has won the prize of the prof. Waldemar Michowicz for the best doctoral dissertation on political science in Poland in 2016. The prize is granted by Department of International and Political Studies at the University of Lodz. Awarded PhD disertation entitled 'Military Interventions in the Horn of Africa after 2006 on the example of the Somali Civil War' was supervised by prof. dr hab. Janusz Węc.