European Journal of Transformation Studies

Zviad Abashidze

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University

Associate-Professor at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Department of Political Science. He holds Diploma with Honour in History and Political Science from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. During 1998-2001 he was studying in PhD Political Science program at the same University. He holds MA in Arts in Political Science from Manchester University in 2002. In 2011 he defended PhD thesis in Political Science and was awarded a PhD degree in Political Science. Throughout the years, He visited various European Universities with different status (Post-doctorate, invited fellow, visiting scholar, visiting professor). His areas of research and teaching are: Comparative Politics, Nationalism and ethnicity in former communist space; Democratic transition and transformation in former communist countries; contemporary problems of political theory.

Arkadiusz Modrzejewski

HONORARY EDITOR

University of Gdansk, Poland

He studied Political and Social Sciences at University of Gdansk (Poland), where he also obtained a doctoral degree (2003). Habilitated in Political Theory at Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia (2014). Currently he is working as an university professor in the Department of Political Science at University of Gdansk. His academic focus is political philosophy as well as identity issues. He is a chairperson of Executive Board of Research Institute of European Policy as well as honorary chairman of Europe Our House and chairman of its Scientific Council.

Jaroslav Mihálik

DEPUTY EDITOR

Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Trnava, Slovakia"

Doc. PhDr. Jaroslav Mihálik is a Dean of Faculty of Social Sciences at UCM and Head of the Political Sciences Department. He received PhD. in Political Theory at Comenius University in Bratislava and habilitated at UCM Trnava in Public Policy and Administration. His publications cover youth studies, extremism, media analyses and social networks, comparative politics and public administration and public policy. He has been a researcher and team leader in various international and domestic project schemes such as 7th Framework Programme and Horizon 2020 of the European Commission, Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Chair in Migration, International Visegrad Fund and Slovak scientific grant scheme VEGA.

Edita Poórová

COPY EDITOR

Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Trnava, Slovakia

Edita Poórová has worked at UCM Trnava as an English language teacher since 2003. She has also been a Vice-Dean for International relations. Edita graduated at Comenius University in Bratislava, achieving the qualification of English and Russian teacher. She received PhD. at Charles University in Prague. The subject of her scientific and research activities is English for specific purposes and students’ assessment in higher education.

Andrii Kutsyk

ASSISTANT EDITOR

Research Institute for European Policy, Poland

PhD in social communication and media sciences (Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University) and MA in Eastern European Studies (University of Warsaw). His research focus are related to media issues and socio-political transformations in modern Ukraine. Twice received a research grant from Visegrad fund. In 2015-2016 he completed an internship at Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Currently Research Fellow at the Institute of Political Science of the University of Gdańsk and Secretary in Research Institute for European Policy Publishing House as well as a Freelance Journalist. 

Paweł Nieczuja–Ostrowski

EXECUTIVE EDITOR

University of Gdansk, Poland

PhD in political science at the University of Warsaw, an assistant professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Gdansk and the member of the Executive Board of the Research Institute for European Policy. In 2016 he was a visiting professor at the State University of Wanadzor in Armenia and the Mersin University in Turkey. In 2017 he was a member of the OSCE/ODIHR Election Observation Mission for the parliamentary elections in the Republic of Armenia. In 2018 he completed an internship at the Yerevan State University (Armenia).

Tamar Gamkrelidze

Europe Our House, Tbilisi, Georgia

Tamar Gamkrelidze obtained doctoral degree at Ilia State University in Tbilisi in 2020. Moreover, she is analumna of Academic Swiss Caucasus Net, Erasmus Mundus EUROEAST, Latvian State Research Fellowship and Open Society Institute scholarship networks. Currently, Tamar holds a position of a researcher at Europe Our House. In 2010 she obtained her master’s degree in European Studies from Maastricht University, the Netherlands. Earlier, Tamar worked as a RTA Assistant (EC Resident Twinning Advisor) at the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia. Her research interests lie in the fields of identity studies, EU external affairs, EU integration, and discourse theory. She was the first editor-in-chief of EJTS.

Tatiana Tökölyová

University College of International and Public Affairs in Bratislava, Slovakia

PhD. graduated in political sciences and in Russian and English languages. She works for University College of International and Public Relations in Prague (Education and Consultation Institute in Bratislava). In her academic research, she is focused mostly on identity issues in small state´s foreign policy, trans-regionalism, and here mostly on Asian – Pacific regionalism. Moreover, she is in long-term cooperation with various European universities as visiting professor and researcher, and she is an author of several scientific studies and research articles, chapters in domestic as well as foreign publications and monographs. She is a member of the New Zealand Studies Council of the New Zealand Studies Association and a member of Advisory Board of Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies.

Rafał Raczyński

Research Insitute for European Policy, Poland

Ph.D. in political science with a specialization in international relations, vice-chairman of RIEP, chief research officer in Emigration Museum in Gdynia. He studied Political Science at the University of Gdańsk (2007), Personnel Management at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities (2014) and graduated from the European School at the Faculty of Management and Economics at Gdańsk University of Technology (2009). He delivered guest lectures at the University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius (Slovakia), National School of Political Studies and Public Administration (Romania) and the University of Naples Federico II (Italy). He managed and implemented several scientific, educational, training and advisory projects co-financed, among others, by the European Union.