Obszary badawcze
The department’s areas of interest include the processes, phenomena, relationships, and events that make up the international security environment. We pay particular attention to the likelihood of wars, conflicts, and other situations involving the use of force, as well as nonmilitary forms of violence in international relations. In this context, our research and analysis also focus on the policies of great powers, as well as those of states and non-state actors prone to the use of force. An important part of this research area involves the legal and institutional frameworks governing security and the use—or prohibition of the use—of force. This also applies to arms limitation and control. We are paying increasing attention to non-military aspects of security, particularly those related to energy and climate. A parallel area of research is Polish foreign and security policy, including the geopolitical determinants of the security of Poland and Europe. As the name of the department suggests (which was formed through the transformation of the department of strategic studies), the core of the department’s identity remains reflection on strategy, the scope of strategic studies and security studies, and their place within the field of international relations and, more broadly, political science.