Andrzej Szabaciuk

Ph.D., Historian and political scientist. Assistant Professor at the Department Political Theories of Eastern Studies, Institute of Political Science and Public Administration at the John Paul II Catholic University in Lublin. Senior Analyst, the Department of Eastern Europe, at the Institute of Central Europe in Lublin. An intern at the Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences (2013), and the Ukrainian Catholic University (2013). A visiting fellow at the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame, USA (2019). Research interests: international relations within the post-soviet area, the security of the Eastern European region, migration, ethnic and religious policies, the situation of national and religious minorities in the East, and the role of the Catholic Church in the socio-political life of the countries of the former Eastern Bloc.