Tomasz Stępniewski

Doctor Habilitatus (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland), Associate Professor at the Institute of Political Science and Public Administration, Faculty of Social Sciences, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, and Deputy Director at the Institute of Central Europe in Lublin (www.ies.lublin.pl), Poland. Prof. Stepniewski has been involved in a number of research-projects dealing with development in the post-Soviet space while at the same time engaged (by invitation) in expert-level discussions and negotiations on related issues. A former research fellow at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute in 2005, 2006, and 2015, Carnegie Moscow Centre, and others. His main research interests include the EU’s policy towards its eastern neighbourhood, international relations of the Commonwealth of Independent States, and Russia’s policy towards Eastern Europe. His most recent publications include Stępniewski, T. and Soroka G. (eds.) (2018), Ukraine after Maidan, and Revisiting Domestic and Regional Security, Ibidem-Verlag, Columbia University Press (ibidem-Verlag’s book series “Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society” – SPPS edited by Andreas Umland), Vol. 188, Stuttgart.