Grzegorz Pożarlik is a lecturer in the Institute for European Studies of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and holds a PhD in Humanities from the Faculty of Philosophy at the Jagiellonian University. His doctora thesis analysed the Polish raison d'état in the context of the European integration processes. He has also done research in the fields of international security in the Post-Cold War era, democracy and legitimacy in the EU, European citizenship and European identity, civil society and public sphere. His recent publications focus on the problem of global asymmetry as a background for the emergence of the Post-Westphalian paradigm in the international relations with special emphasis on the role of the EU as a global normative power.

Dr Grzegorz Pożarlik co-ordinates Eramus Mundus mobility programmes as well as other joint European Studies programmes within the Institute of European Studies.