Dr. Grzegorz Pożarlik is an adjunct professor and former deputy director of the Jagiellonian University Institute of European Studies. He holds Ph.D. in Humanities from the Faculty of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University.
His research focuses on sociology of power, international security in the Post-Cold War era, civil society and public sphere in Europe, democratic deficit and legitimacy crisis in the EU, symbolic construction of identity in the context of the EU Eastern neighbourhood policy .
His recent publications focus on dilemmas of collective identity construction in an enlarging EU, collective memory in post-communist society, global asymmetry as a background for the emergence of the Post-Westphalian paradigm in the international relations, the EU as a global normative power and sociologisation of security studies.
He co-ordinates the Visegrad Network for Research and Academic mobility (VNDREAM). He is director of studies of the Joint Master Degree in International Relations: Europe from the Visegrad Perspective.