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NAWA Chair Grant for the Centre for International Studies and Development

Prof. Emilian K. Kavalski from China will be guest professor at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. He will be carrying out a project in the field of international relations entitled ‘Promoting Order in the Period of Turbulence.’

We are pleased to announce that the project entitled ‘Promoting Order at the Edge of Turbulence,’ prepared by the Centre of International Studies and Development under the supervision of Dr Marcin Grabowski, has received (as one of five in Poland) a grant from the prestigious programme of the National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA) "NAWA Chairs". The project enables the research stay of Prof. Emilian Kavalski (University of Nottingham Ningbo in China) at the Centre for International Studies and Development at the Faculty of International and Political Studies of the Jagiellonian University for 4 years, engaging in teaching activities and creating his own research team. The project is financially supported by the POB Future Society. The total cost of the project is ca. 3.3 million PLN, including more than 2.3 million PLN from the National Agency for Academic Exchange, ca. 400 000 PLN from the National Science Centre, and almost 580 000 PLN from the POB Future Society within the Excellence Initiative of the Jagiellonian University.

Here is the project’s short description – and we invite you to follow its development:

Uncertainty has always been a defining feature of world affairs. So why then are policy-makers, scholars, and we—the news-thirsty publics—so surprised when the world turns out to be unpredictable? After all, the veritable age of International Relations (IR) should have provided it with enough experience to expect—if not necessarily be prepared for—the unexpected. The contention is that the discipline has increasingly immersed itself in debates on the substantiation of particular paradigms rather than engaging the dynamics of global life. Such a mentality has hindered the interaction between the different IR paradigms, between IR and the advances in other social and natural sciences, as well as the development of qualitatively new intellectual platforms for engaging the complexity of world affairs. The POET project claims that Complexity Thinking (CT) can rectify this trend by providing new forms of knowledge to respond to emerging complex challenges. By taking CT beyond broad principles to specific theory in a unique, academically-rigorous and highly usable way, the POET project opens important new horizons in understanding the promotion of sustainable order in a complex and unpredictable global life. The investigation pivots on three taxonomies: (i) power; (ii) governance, and (iii) context. Such triangulation informs the examination of three work packages: (a) Parallel Connectivity in Eurasia; (b) Digital Geopolitics in a Fracturing World; (c) Engaging China’s Pandemic Diplomacy. The results will be of 3 / 28 Part 2. Visiting Scientist significant interest across the social sciences, and indeed for all who seek to understand governance and power in contemporary global life. The outcomes of the POET project will be a major contribution to academia and serve as a practical guide for policy-makers involved in the process of navigating the pressing task of regional engagement. 

Find more information about the POET project, click here (This link goes to a new tab).

On the right side of the graphic, a photo of Professor Emilian Kavalski. On the left side of the graphic there are the following logos: Jagiellonian University, Center for International Studies and Development, NAWA, National Science Center and Research University.