Przegląd Strategiczny 2018, Issue 11 CONTRIBUTORS Daniel C. BACH – retired Director of Research CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research) at the Emil Durkheim Centre of the University of Bordeaux and professor at Sciences Po Bordeaux and ISEG (University of Lisbon). It holds a Diplôme d’Habiliation à Diriger des Recherches (University of Bordeaux I), a doctorate from Oxford University, DES of University Panthéon-Sorbonne and a Bachelor degree at Institut d’Etudes Poli- tiques, University of Grenoble. Former director of the Center d’Etude d’Afrique noire in Bordeaux, he was also Deakin Fellow at St Antony’s College (Oxford University), Ful- bright scholar at Boston University and co-worker of the Indian Council for Social Studies (Jawaharlal Nehru University). He is the author of numerous publications on Nigerian federalism, foreign policy of Nigeria and South Africa, regional organizations and region- alization processes in Africa. Contact: [email protected]. Roman BÄCKER – Professor of Political Sciences at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. The president of Polish Political Science Association in 2010–2016, the first dean of the Faculty of Political Sciences and International Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, the author and co-author of books and articles about Russian and European politi- cal thought, totalitarianism, the theory of politics, and methodology of political sciences. His current research is on “Contemporary Russia: Between Authoritarianism and Totali- tarianism”. Contact: [email protected]. Piotr BARANOWSKI – M.A., is a PhD candidate at the Department of Non-European Political Studies at the Faculty of Political Sciences and Journalism at the Adam Mick- iewicz University. His research involves system’s theory, geopolitics and cybernetics as a basis to study international system. His master thesis “Cybernetic Approach in Measuring State Power” was awarded the best one of 2015 by Faculty’s Dean. Currently he is working on incorporating complexity theory’s findings into international system research. Contact: [email protected]. Ryszard BODZIACKI – holds PhD in Politcal Science. Lecturer at the Faculty of Politi- cal Science and Journalism at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Department of Political Culture). Co-founder of the ProEuropa Viardina Euroregion, member of the Council of Collegium Polonicum Fund. Between 1991 and 1998 and 2002–2010 Mayor of the city of Słubice. Contact: [email protected]. Olga BOYTSOVA – Доктор политических наук, профессор кафедры философии политики и права философского факультета МГУ им. М. В. Ломоносова, научный руководитель образовательной программы философского факультета «Стратегичес- кое управление и экономическая политика», заместитель главного редактора жур- 474 Contributors нала «Вестник Московского университета. Серия 7. Философия». Kонтакт: olga. [email protected]. Jolanta BRYŁA – Associate Professor at the Faculty of Political Science and Journalism, Adam Mickiewicz University, in Poznań, Department of International Relations. Her sci- entific interests focus on: international relations, especially international security regimes (the nuclear non-proliferation regime, cosmic regime), and outer space as an area of rivalry and international cooperation. Author of numerous articles and monographs (among oth- ers: Strefy wpływów w stosunkach międzynarodowych. Aspekty teoretyczne i praktyczne na przykładzie supermocarstw, Poznań 2002). Contact: [email protected]. Serhiy DANYLENKO – Associate Professor, doctor of Political sciences, candidate of philological sciences; Head of the Department of International Media Communica- tion and Communication Technologies, Department of International Information, In- stitute of International Relations at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Scientific interests: influence of communicative technologies on formation of civil society, political communication and mass media, international journalism, media convergence. Contact: [email protected]. Łukasz DONAJ – Professor at the Faculty of Political Science and Journalism, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. The author/editor of nine monographs and nearly 150 academic articles and reviews; deputy-assistant editor of Przegląd Strategiczny; member of editorial boards of: PolitBook, Youth. World. Politics, Человеческий капи- тал, Проблемы постсоветского пространства, Refleksje, Общество: политика, экономика, право; reviewer of the magazines: R/evolutions. Global Trends & Regional Issues, Pogranicze. Polish Borderland Studies, Świat Idei i Polityki, Wschód Europy. Stu- dia Humanistyczno-Społeczne, Przegląd Europejski, Sensus Historiae. Studia interdyscy- plinarne, International Studies. Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal, Collo- quium, Środkowoeuropejskie Studia Polityczne, e-Politikon and Civitas et Lex. Member of: Polish Political Science Association, Polish Association for International Studies (since 2013 Head of the Poznań Section), Consortium of Academic Strategic Studies and Centre for European Research and Education. His research and teaching primarily focus on is- sues of security, and the internal and external situation of Ukraine, the freedom of press in post-soviet countries, political communication and issues of political forecasting. Contact: [email protected]. Radosław FIEDLER – is an Associate Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University, head of the Department for Non-European Political Studies at the Faculty of Political Science and Journalism (http://pozaeuropejskie.amu.edu.pl). The author of numerous papers and monographs on the issues of the Middle East, Central Asia and European Union activity in that regions. His research interests are focused on Middle East and Central Asia. He has also been granted a research subsidy within: National Science Center, the EU Partnership and International Cooperation in Jordan, Eminence II in Georgia. Visiting professor in Columbia University and Georgetown University, Teheran University, Cairo University, Jordan University, International Black Sea University and Grigol Robakidze University in Georgia, Al Farabi Kazakh National University and Tianjin University of Technology Contributors 475 in China. The Head of the annual international conference: Beyond Europe Politics and Change in Global and Regional Affairs (http://beyondeurope.amu.edu.pl/). Contact: rado- [email protected]. Maryna GRYNCHUK – Ph.D student, the Department of International Media Commu- nication and Communication Technologies, Institute of International Relations at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Contact: [email protected]. Vladimir Aleksandrovich GUTOROV– Dr.of Sci. (Philos.), Professor, Head of Depart- ment of Theory and Philosophy of Politics, Faculty of Political Science, Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia, Head of Saint-Petersburg department of the Russian Association of Political Science (RAPS). Teaching experience: courses of the history of Western politi- cal thought (3 semesters), political philosophy (1 semester), modern political ideologies (1 semester), modern political theories (1 semester). Scientific interests: modern political theory and philosophy of politics, philosophy of education, history of ancient and modern political thought. Contact: [email protected]. Bartosz HORDECKI – PhD in law, PhD in Political science, MA in philosophy, assistant professor at the Faculty of Political Science and Journalism / Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. He specializes in researches in the field of changes of the contemporary socio- political discourses and political and legal cultures as well as the evolution of the key-con- cepts and rhetorical approaches in social communication, theory and practice of freedom of speech, and language politics and policies. Assistant editor of the “Public Policy and Economic Development” journal (publishers: Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań; Black Sea State University in Mikolaiv); deputy-assistant editor and thematic editor (phi- losophy, ethics, professional deontology) of the “Medyczna Wokanda” journal (publisher: Naczelna Izba Lekarska); member of the Board of the Polish Academic Society for the Press Law, member of the IPSA-AISP RC50 Board (The Politics of Language/La politique des langues). Contact: [email protected]. Bogusław JAGUSIAK – Full Professor in Humanities (2017), since September 2012 is the Head of Department of National Security at the Military University of Technology in Warsaw. His scientific interests comprise theoretical and methodological aspects of security research (social security, national security, international security), political systems, inter- national political relations and mechanism of social dialogue within the European Union. The author of several books (among them „Wymiar narodowy i ponadnarodowy dialogu społecznego w Unii Europejskiej”, „Bezpieczeństwo socjalne współczesnego państwa”, „Systemy polityczne krajów nadbałtyckich”) and articles. Member of Polish Society of Political Science and Polish Society of European Studies. Laureate of Military University of Technology in Warsaw (2010) and Commission of National Education (2012) awards. Contact: [email protected]. Natalia KUSA – PhD student at the Department of Political Systems at the Faculty of Political Science and Journalism at the University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznan. Her research interests focus on the issues of socio-political changes in post-Soviet countries, transformations within the