Executive Council

Professor and Chair of International Relations at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. CEEISA Treasurer and ex officio member of the Executive Council

Dr. Aliaksei Kazharski (Belarus), researcher and lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University in Prague,  received his Ph.D. in European studies and policies from Comenius University in Bratislava in 2015. Has worked as a visiting researcher at the universities of Oslo (Norway), Vienna (Austria), Tartu (Estonia), Malmö (Sweden), the Polish Academy of Sciences, and the Institute of Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna. Author of Eurasian Integration and the Russian World. Regionalism as an Identitary Enterprise(CEUPress, 2019) and Central Europe Thirty Years After. A Return to the Margin? (Lexington Books, 2022).

Dr. Dora Piroska is Assistant Professor at the International Relations Department of Central European University, Vienna, Austria. She holds a PhD from the CEU in Political Science/IR track. Her research focuses on the international political economy (IPE) of banking and finance, banking regulation and development finance. She has a particular interest in the Eastern Central European region. She has published extensively on the European financial regulation including the Banking Union, macroprudential regulation, the Regulatory Sandbox. Recently she published on development banking in Hungary and Poland, on the European Investment Bank (EIB) and on the EBRD. She also investigated theories of financial nationalism, financial power, and democracy. She co-edited a book on János Kornai’s scholarship with Miklós Rosta. She published in JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, New Political Economy, Competition and Change, Journal of Economic Policy Reform, Policy and Society, Third World Thematics: A TQW Journal, Europe-Asia Studies, Journal of Institutional Economics in thematic volumes with Routledge, Oxford University Press, CEU Press, Edgar Elgar, and in several Hungarian outlets.

Jeremy Garlick, PhD, is an associate professor at Prague University of Economics and Business and the director of the Jan Masaryk Centre of International Studies, a research centre within the university. He specialises in China’s international relations, focusing primarily on the progress and regional implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). His first book, The Impact of China’s Belt and Road Initiative: From Asia to Europe, was published by Routledge in 2020. His second book, Reconfiguring the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor: Geo-Economic Pipe Dreams Versus Geopolitical Realities, was published by Routledge in 2022. He has also published numerous peer-reviewed articles on a diverse range of topics related to the BRI, including China’s economic diplomacy and regionalising foreign policy. These publications include papers on the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), China’s economic diplomacy in the Czech Republic, China’s strategic hedging in the Persian Gulf, China’s normative power drive in Central Asia, and China’s relations with India. Dr Garlick has taught and lectured for two decades at institutes of higher education in Asia and Europe including the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) in Beijing and Ewha Womans University in Seoul.

Dagmar Vorlíček is a university assistant (post-doc) at the University of Vienna, Department of Sociology. She holds a Ph.D. in International Relations (Charles University in Prague), worked as a lecturer at the University of Sussex, and was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies Vienna. Her research explores the entanglements of science, technology, and global insecurities, and is situated at the intersection of International Political Sociology, International Relations, and Science and Technology Studies. She is also the Head of the Board of the Institute of International Relations in Prague and the programme co-chair for the EISA Pan-European Conference on International Relations 2023.

Marcin Grabowski, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Political Science and International Relations of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow and the Director of the Centre for International Studies and Development (CISAD). Marcin graduated in International Relations from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. He studied at Columbia University in the City of New York (School of International and Public Affairs), George Washington University in Washington (Sigur Center for Asian Studies), and University of California, San Diego, where he completed the Global Leadership Institute program. His research interests focus on the Asia-Pacific Rim, especially institutional arrangements of the region (APEC, ASEM, ASEAN, EAS, ARF, SAARC), American and Chinese foreign policies, theories of IR and International Economics.