Dorota Sokolovska

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Dorota Sokolovska is a PhD candidate in Political Science (Political Theory) at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University (IIRPS VU).

She holds an MA in Political Science from Central European University in Vienna, where she graduated with Distinction. She received the Outstanding Academic Excellence Award for achieving the highest GPA in her faculty. Her MA thesis was titled “Some Clausewitzian Answers to Just War Theory.” She earned her BA in Political Science from IIRPS VU in 2023, with a thesis entitled “Philosophical Reconsideration of the Notion of Interest and Its Relation to Morality in International Relations.”

She began her professional career in journalism. In 2020–2021, she worked as a radio journalist at LRT, producing reports on politics and society. From 2021 to 2023, she worked at the Eastern Europe Studies Centre, managing projects aimed at strengthening democratic civil society in Belarus and Ukraine. From 2024 to 2026, she was a researcher at PPMI, part of the Verian Group, conducting public policy evaluations involving case studies, interviews, and survey data analysis. Since 2026, she has served as a Counsellor in the Directorate for Lithuania’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania.

In 2026, she began her doctoral studies at IIRPS VU. Her dissertation examines the epistemology of historical analogy, exploring the conditions under which analogies between political cases carry genuine epistemic weight rather than merely rhetorical or psychological force. Her research seeks to bring philosophical hermeneutics into dialogue with methodological traditions in political science (supervisor Assoc. Prof. Dr. Simas Čelutka).