POLISH POLITICAL SCIENCE YEARBOOK VOL XLIII 2014 PL ISSN 0208-7375

NOTES ABOUT AUTHORS

Andrzej Antoszewski – Full Professor, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Faculty of Political Science and Journalism, Department of International Relations.

Andrzej Bisztyga – Professor and Vice-Rector of the Katowice School of Economics (Górnośląska Wyższa Szkoła Handlowa w Katowicach). Specialist in the fi elds of Polish and comparative constitutional law, human rights, freedoms and their guarantees. Author of about 100 scientifi c publications. Legal expert of the Senate of the Republic of Poland. Among others, Visiting Professor at the Toraygyrov State University in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan.

Andrzej Chodubski – Full Professor, lecturer at the Institute of Political Sci- ences, Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Gdańsk and the Faculty of Political Sciences in the Gdańsk Higher School of Humanities. His areas of expertise and research interests are the history of 19t and 20t century, political institutions, the Polish people living abroad, and international relations.

Mateusz R. Chudziak – born 1983, historian and lawyer. Graduate of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. His research interests focus on the NOTES ABOUT AUTHORS 451 history and legal aspects of international organizations, trade and economic relations with Latin America. Member of the Kujavian-Pomeranian Bar Chamber in Toruń.

Tomasz Czapiewski – PhD granted by the University of Wrocław (2011), graduate of the University of Szczecin (political science – 2007, law), Assistant Professor at the Institute of Political and European Studies at the University of Szczecin; research interests focus on political system of the United Kingdom and public policy process.

Ewa Ganowicz – Assistant Professor in the Department of Regional Studies, Institute of Political Science at the University of Opole. Head of the local policy.

Natalia Gburzyska – graduate of Russian philology (2013) and international relations (2014) at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. She is interested in Moscow in contemporary world, Russian cooperation with the USA, the EU and other countries, as well as styles of election campaigns in the Central and Eastern Europe countries. She works as a teacher of Russian language at various language schools in Toruń. Hobbies: diplomacy, Russian literature, contemporary cinema, languages.

Herbert Gna – PhD in social science, in the fi eld of political science, author of the dissertation Th e Kyoto Protocol. Th e Analysis of the International Decision, written under the supervision of professor Marek Pietraś. Th e dissertation was awarded 1st prize in the 2013 edition of the contest organized by the Collegium Civitas in Warsaw for the best PhD dissertation in the fi elds of international relations, international security and diplomacy, named aft er Robert Mrozie- wicz. In 2011, received a PhD grant. In 2010 and in 2012, organized the panels “Interdisciplinarity in researches of ecological security” and “Climate change issues in international relations”, at the 1st and 2ⁿd Political Science Congresses, respectively.

Tadeusz Godlewski – Full Professor at the Nicolaus Copernicus University, Faculty of Political Sciences and International Studies NCU, Department of the Political System of the Republic of Poland. 452 NOTES ABOUT AUTHORS

Marek Górka – PhD, lecturer at the Institute of Social Policy and International Relations at the Koszalin University of Technology. Research interests: the party system in Poland, electoral competition, political marketing.

Joanna Hoffmann – MA, University of Technology in Poznań.

Tomasz Hoffmann – Full Professor, University of Technology in Poznań.

Agnieszka Kasiska-Metryka – PhD, Associate Professor, Jan Kochanowski University Professor, political sciences. Areas of interest: political leadership, public relations, political communication, political marketing.

Michał Kobierecki – PhD, University of Łódź, Faculty of International and Political Studies.

Dorota Litwin-Lewandowska – PhD in political science, employed at the position of a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Sociology of Politics in the Faculty of Political Science at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (MCSU). Graduated from the Faculty of Political Science at MCSU in 1996. In 2005, obtained the doctoral degree on the basis of a PhD dissertation entitled: Poles in the Political Life of Austria in the Period of Dual Monarchy, written under the scientifi c guidance of Prof. Władysław S. Kucharski, PhD. Th e author’s sci- entifi c interests focus on political and social confl icts, organisational confl icts, international crises and confl icts, social and political divisions, mediation and negotiations, techniques of exerting social infl uence, and relations between Poland and Austria.

Włodzimierz Malendowski – Full Professor, lecturer of political science and journalism at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.

Joanna Marszałek-Kawa – PhD, Assistant Professor at the UMK. She works in the Department of the Polish Political System, Faculty of Political Sciences and International Studies at the Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń. She is the Chief of the recently formed Centre for Eastern Studies associated with Adam Marszałek Publishing House. NOTES ABOUT AUTHORS 453

Antoni Mironowicz – Full Professor, specialist in history of the Central and Eastern Europe in XV–XX century. He is working in the Faculty of History and Sociology at the University of Białystok. He has written 40 books about history of Orthodox Church in the Central and Eastern Europe.

Fabrice Mori n – graduate of geography and regional planning at the University of Franche-Comté, currently responsible for coordinating the fi ght against crime in the city of Metz

Artur Niedźwiecki – PhD, University of Łódź, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of International and Political Science, the Department of Central and Eastern Europe.

Zuzanna Osmólska – graduate in political science (local government spe- cialization) at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń; a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies NCU; member of editorial board of journals: “Athenaeum. Polish Political Science Studies” and “Societas et Ius”; author of papers in the fi eld of political participation, civic knowledge, political competence, local government, the third sector, and good governance.

Wiera Paradowska – PhD, philosophy, psychology and psychotherapy.

Ryszard Paradowski – PhD, Warsaw University Professor; philosophy and politi- cal science.

Marek Pietraś – Full Professor, head of the International Relations Department at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland. Author of almost 160 publications on contemporary international relations.

Dorota Rdzanek – is a graduate of the Institute of Philosophy and Political Science at the University of Szczecin. In 2005 received a PhD in humanities at the University of the A. Mickiewicz in Poznan. She is currently an Assistant Professor in political thought. Currently conducting research related to the modern Pol- ish political thought. 454 NOTES ABOUT AUTHORS

Grzegorz Ronek – PhD, Assistant Professor at the John Paul II Catholic Uni- versity of Lublin, Institute of Political Science and International Relations. His scientifi c research focuses on the British political thought and system. He is also interested in relations between the United Kingdom and the European Union. He is the author of two monographs and several scientifi c articles.

Gulmyra S. Sultanbayeva – PhD in political science, Professor, Al-Farabi National University of Kazakhstan.

Beata Słobodzian – PhD, lecturer in the Department of Political Science of the Institute of Th eory of Politics at the University of Gdańsk. Her main research interests are focused on the issues of local government in Poland, as well as other local governments in the world.

Wojciech Stankiewicz – lawyer and specialist in Scandinavian culture and his- tory, teacher and scientist at the Institute of History and International Relations at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn. He obtained his doctoral degree in 1999, having defended his thesis on Th e Problem of Preventing International Terrorism As a Phenomenon of Modern Civilization (in Air and Sea Transport) at the Faculty of Social Science at the University of Gdańsk. He lectures in inter- national public law. He deals with international political and legal relations. Th e issue of international terrorism has a particular position in his scientifi c research.

Magdalena Wiśniewska – graduated from the University of Humanities and Sciences in Kielce, the Faculty of Management and Administration, the major: political science. Areas of interest: political system of the United States, in particu- lar the issues of American political marketing. Currently preparing the doctoral thesis about the activities of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Bożena Wroniszewska – PhD candidate at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Opole. Author and co-author of publications in the fi eld of political science. Employee at local policy studio.

Jenny Yang – PhD candidate at Queen’s University (Canada). NOTES ABOUT AUTHORS 455

Michał Zabdyr-Jamróz – Political scientist. Graduate of the Jagiellonian Uni- versity in Kraków. Research and teaching assistant at the Institute of Public Health, Faculty of Health Science, Jagiellonian University Medical College. PhD candidate at the Faculty of International and Political Studies at the Jagiellon- ian University. Interested in deliberative democracy, historical development of British parliamentarism and institutional guarantees of human rights (habeas corpus); also specializes in health policy, health systems, and public participation in health.

Wojciech Ziętara – PhD, Faculty of Political Science, the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin. He lectures in the history and the contemporary social democratic movement, particularly the infl uence of the Socialist International on rebuilding social democratic movements in Central and Eastern Europe aft er 1989. He is the author of 45 scientifi c articles and four monographs, the last one being Towarzystwo Fabiańskie w latach 1884–1939 (2013) [Th e Fabian Society 1884–1939].