Jan Zielonka

Ph.D., is professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Venice in Ca' Foscari and a professor at the Centre for Europe at University of Warsaw. He previously taught at the University of Oxford, the University of Leiden, and the European University Institute in Florence. His research focuses on international relations, comparative politics, and political theory. Professor Zielonka is the author of eighteen books, including Counter-Revolution – Liberal Europe in Retreat (Oxford University Press, 2018, which won 2019’s Best Book Prize as awarded by the International Association of European Studies UACES and which has been translated into several languages), Politics and the Media in New Democracies – Europe in a Comparative Perspective (Oxford University Press, 2015), Is the EU Doomed? (Polity Press, 2014) and Europe as Empire: The Nature of the Enlarged European Union (Oxford University Press, 2006). In 2023, Yale University Press published his new book, The Lost Future and How to Regain It. Prof. Zielonka regularly publishes articles in Die Zeit, New Statesman, Social Europe, Open Democracy, Domani, NRC Handelsblad, Diário de Notícias, and Rzeczpospolita.