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  • 2018 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Jan Zielonka is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and specializes in the Social Sciences, with a focus on Political Science and International Relations. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Sociology and Political Science, Economics and Econometrics, Finance, and Safety Research.

The key topics in Zielonka's work include European Union Policy and Governance, Global Peace and Security Dynamics, International Relations and Foreign Policy, Populism and Right-Wing Movements, Eastern European Communism and Reforms, Global Financial Crisis and Policies, and Agricultural Economics and Policies.

The scientist's recent publications include:

  • From Revolution to 'Counter-Revolution': Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe 30 Years On, 2020, Europe Asia Studies
  • Michael Zürn, Theory of Global Governance: Authority, Legitimacy and Contestation, 2022, Society
  • National Bonds, Foreign Policy and the Future of Europe, 2021, Ethnopolitics
  • Impact of Direct Subsidies on Budgets of Agricultural Farms, 2021, Olsztyn Economic Journal
  • Normative power at war in Ukraine: A reply to Hans-Herbert Kögler, 2023, European Journal of Social Theory

Zielonka has coauthored work with several frequent collaborators, including Jacques Rupnik, Natalia Przybysz, Tulegen Kobzhassarov, Mirosława Witkowska-Dąbrowska, and Stefania Bernini.

The publication venues where Zielonka's research frequently appears are Global Perspectives, Europe Asia Studies, Society, Ethnopolitics, and Olsztyn Economic Journal. Notably, they have multiple publications in Global Perspectives.

In addition to journal articles, Zielonka has authored books published by Yale University Press, including "The Lost Future" released in 2023.

In recognition of scholarly achievements, Jan Zielonka was named a Member of Academia Europaea in 2018.

Best Publications

  • Europe as Empire: The Nature of the Enlarged European Union

    Jan Zielonka

  • Europe as Empire

    Jan Zielonka

  • Democratic Consolidation in Eastern Europe

    Robert Legvold;Jan Zielonka;Alex Pravda

  • Europe as a global actor: empire by example?

    Jan Zielonka

  • Democracy and political culture in Eastern Europe

    Hans-Dieter Klingemann;Dieter Fuchs;Jan Zielonka

  • How New Enlarged Borders Will Reshape the European Union

    Jan Zielonka

  • Democratic Consolidation in Eastern Europe Volume 1: Institutional Engineering

    Jan Zielonka

  • Introduction: The State of Democracy 20 Years on Domestic and External Factors

    Jacques Rupnik;Jan Zielonka

  • Is the EU Doomed

    Jan Zielonka

  • Explaining Euro-Paralysis: Why Europe is Unable to Act in International Politics

    Jan Zielonka

  • Europe Unbound: Enlarging and Reshaping the Boundaries of the European Union

    Jan Zielonka

  • Plurilateral Governance in the Enlarged European Union

    Jan Zielonka

  • Democratic Consolidation in Eastern Europe Volume 2: International and Transnational Factors

    Jan Zielonka;Alex Pravda

  • Counter-Revolution: Liberal Europe in Retreat

    Jan Andrzej Zielonka

  • Paradoxes of European foreign policy

    Jan Zielonka

  • Challenges of EU Enlargement

    Jan Zielonka

  • Europe's new civilizing missions: the EU's normative power discourse

    Jan Zielonka

  • Media and politics in new democracies : Europe in a comparative perspective

    Jan Zielonka

  • The enlarged European Union : diversity and adaptation

    Peter Mair;Jan Zielonka

  • Explaining Euro-paralysis

    Jan Zielonka

  • New Institutions in the Old East Bloc

    Jan Zielonka

  • The road to the European Union

    Jacques Rupnik;Jan Zielonka;Vello Pettai

  • The Future of Representative Democracy

    Jan Zielonka

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Mair
Peter Mair European University Institute
Michael P. Brenner
Michael P. Brenner University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Robert Legvold
Robert Legvold Columbia University
Robert Elgie
Robert Elgie Dublin City University

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