Xymena Kurowska
Associate Professor
International Relations
Central European University
Hungary
Biography
Xymena Kurowska is an IR theorist interested in interpretive policy analysis. She received her doctorate from European University Institute in Florence, Italy. She works within International Political Sociology and at the intersection of psychoanalysis and politics, with particular focus on security theory and practice, border politics, subjectivity, and interpretive methodologies. She was a grantee of the European Foreign and Security Policy Studies Programme to research border policies in Eastern Europe. She also served as the CEU principal investigator in Global Norm Evolution and Responsibility to Protect project to study Russian approaches to humanitarianism. (See here project website.) Currently, she is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University with a project on reflexivity in European border guard training. She welcomes inquiries and MA and PhD topics in the area of: International Political Sociology, social and psychoanalytical theory in the study of politics, EU's security policy, international intervention and state-building, contemporary Russian politics, norms in international politics, and interpretive methodologies.
Research Interest
International Relations, International Security, Methods.
Publications
-
Kurowska X, Mirenau M. Instrumentality and engagement in the CSS "methods turn". Critical Studies on Security. 2014;2(3):359-61.
-
Kurowska X. Practicality by judgement: transnational interpreters of local ownership in the Polish-Ukrainian border reform encounter. Journal of International Relations and Development. 2014;17(4):545-65.
-
Kurowska X. Multipolarity as resistance to liberal norms: Russia’s position on responsibility to protect. Conflict, Security & Development. 2014;14(4): 489-508.
