The area of research interests
The Chair in National Security is a unit established on 1st January 2015 (as the Department). It was created after a group of academics specialising in national and international security, regional conflicts, strategic studies and law of armed conflicts separated from the Chair in International Relations and Foreign Policy.
The Chair in National Security is responsible for the teaching programme at the National Security field of studies, the research in the discipline of security studies and international relations studies, cooperation with the students interested in security issues, in particular with the National Security Student Association JU, but it is also responsible for the cooperation with external stakeholders working in the sector of national security and with foreign partners.
Contact details
Katedra Bezpieczeństwa Narodowego INPiSM UJ
ul. Reymonta 4
30-059 Kraków
room 316 tel. 12 663 25 16
room 317 tel. 12 663 25 17
room 421 tel. 12 663 25 31
Mail should be sent to the following address:
Instytutu Nauk Politycznych i Stosunków Międzynarodowych
ul. Reymonta 4
30-059 Kraków
Head of the Chair: prof. Artur Gruszczak, PhD
Position: professor
Research interests:
- The area of freedom, security and justice of the European Union; the internal security of the European Union, with emphasis on police cooperation, the fight against terrorism and organised crime, border protection, the functioning of the Schengen area.
- Strategic studies, transformations in the military, the role of power in international relations, evolution of contemporary international military relations, the function and aims of contemporary armed forces, the hybridization of security.
- Information management, intelligence cooperation in the European union and on a transatlantic scale, predicting threats with the use of open-source intelligence.
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prof. Dariusz Kozerawski, PhD
Position: professor
Research interest:
International and national security - political, economic, military and social aspects; national and international security strategy; state security policy; armed conflicts / crises - causes, course, effects (international / internal dimension); international peace and stabilization operations; armaments policy of international organizations, economic entities (state and non-state); Poland's involvement in the process of international security in terms of political, economic and military cooperation; history of security (including: wars and military, political Europe; Poland; selected disposable groups).
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prof. Bogdan Kosowski, PhD
Position: professor
Research interest:
He specializes in the broadly understood issues of systems theory related to the organization of security management in business entities, institutions and public administration bodies. Practical experience acquired in the State Fire Service, government and local administration, public institutions and business entities - confronts with theoretical knowledge. It combines and adapts the theory of organization science and management - with the science of security, using a system approach based on the analysis of risk associated with the variability of threats.
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prof. Marek Czajkowski, PhD
Position: professor
Research interests:
- International security, with particular emphasis on military aspects and the influence of technology and engineering on its current state and prospects.
- The role of outer space in the processes connected with international security and international relations, space policies of individual countries and their role in national security strategies.
- Ballistic missile defence as a military instrument of security policy and foreign policy and its influence on international security and its prospects.
- Strategic relations USA - France, current situation, history, prospects, global and regional significance, with particular emphasis on Europe.
- The Russian Federation, its foreign and security policy, armed forces, economy, place in the world and the evolution of the political role.
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prof. Paweł Frankowski, PhD
Position: professor
Research interests:
- American foreign policy
- federalism and regionalism in the North America
- regional security in East Africa
- the standards of labour law in free trade agreements (FTAs)
- Space policy of the European Union
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prof. Adrian Tyszkiewicz, PhD
Position: assistant professor with a habilitated doctor degree
Research interest:
Political geography, geopolitics and geostrategy, political history of Poland (political movements and groups)
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prof. Piotr Bajor, PhD
Position: professor
Research interest:
- Foreign policy of the Republic of Poland, factors determining the change of political system and the transformation process in Poland after 1989.
- The process of and the factors determining the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
- International security with particular emphasis on the post-Soviet area.
- The institutionalisation of security on the post-Soviet area.
- Ukrainian and Russian foreign and security policy, bilateral relations.
- Social and political transformation of the post-Soviet area.
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Błażej Sajduk, Phd
Position: assistant professor
Research interest:
Arkadiusz Nyzio, Phd
Position: assistant lecturer with a doctor's degree
Research interests:
1. Polish politics of the 20th and 21st centuries, and in particular the period of systemic transformation.
2. Poland's internal security in the 20th and 21st centuries.
3. Political history of Central and Eastern Europe.
4. Institutions and policy management.
5. Theoretical aspects of political science and security science.
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Mateusz Kolaszyński, PhD
Position: assistant professor
Research interest:
1. The national security system of the Republic of Poland
2. Systemic status of secret services in democratic countries
3. Constitutional law
4. Protection of individual rights and freedoms
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Dominika Dziwisz, PhD
Position: assistant professor
Research interests:
Cyber security, forms of modern terrorism, including primarily those related to the development of modern technologies, US security policy, national security strategies, modern methods of data analysis, Big Data.
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dr Agata Mazurkiewicz
Position: assistant lecturer with a doctor's degree
Research interest:
International security; critical military studies; military sociology; strategic culture; military operations; NATO and EU doctrines; civil-military cooperation.
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Wiktor Hebda, PhD
Position: assistant professor
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Dominik Jurczak, MA
Position: assistant lecturerPiotr Orłowski, MA
Position: assistant lecturerDoktoranci Zakładu
Information about PhD students and associates of the ZBN is available on the website of the Department of National Security.