Dr. Dovile Jakniunaite is professor at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science of Vilnius University, head of the Institute’s Russia and Central Eastern European Studies Center.. Her main fields of expertise are foreign policy analysis, security studies, international relations theory, border studies, EU Eastern Partnership policy. She is the author of the books Kur prasideda ir baigiasi Rusija: kaimynystė tarptautinėje politikoje [Where Russia Begins and Ends: Neighborhood in International Relations] (2007) and Kaip tapti valstybe: sienos ir erdvės Gruzijos teritoriniuose konfliktuose [How to Become a State: Spaces and Territories in Georgian Territorial Conflicts] (2017), editor of Ambicingas dešimtmetis: Lietuvos užsienio politika 2004-2014 [An Ambitious Decade: Lithuanian Foreign Policy 2004-2014]. She works at the Institute since 2003, has had fellowships in Cracow, Creighton, Florida, Tbilisi universities, in 2017 received Vilnius University Rector’s award for yearly scientific achivements, currently is contributing to the Horizon 2020 project “EU-STRAT: The EU and Eastern Partnership countries: an inside-out analysis and strategic assessment”.
Power and communication
International relations and their theories
International Politics
Foreign Policy Analysis
Feminism
Foreign policy analysis and identity studies
Security studies
Border studies
International relations theory
Russian identity and foreign policy
Lithuanian foreign policy
Conflicts in Georgia and Ukraine
De facto states
EU EaP policy
Kaip tapti valstybe: sienos ir erdvės Gruzijos teritoriniuose konfliktuose [How to Become a State: Spaces and Territories in Georgian Territorial Conflicts], Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla, 2017
"Invested in Ukraine: The Struggle of Lithuania against Russia Over the Future of Europe", in G. Besier, K. Stoklosa, (eds.), Neighbourhood Perceptions of the Ukraine Crisis: From Soviet Union into Eurasia?, Routledge, 2017, pp. 119–132
Together with Ž. M. Vaicekauskaite, "Baltic Sea Region-Building: An Impossibility, or an Inability to Finish?", in A. Makarychev, A. Yatsyk, A. (eds.), Borders in the Baltic Sea Region: Suturing the Ruptures, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, pp. 103–124
"Changes in Security Policy and Perceptions of the Baltic States 2014 – 2016", Journal of Baltic Security, 2016, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 6–34
"Sienos ir erdvės: konceptualizacijų paieškos XXI amžiaus teritoriniams konfliktams Rytų Europoje analizuoti" [Analysing Borders and Spaces: Insights for the Analysis of the Territorial Conflicts in Eastern Europe], Politologija, 2016, vol. 83, pp. 66–92
"A Small State in the Asymmetrical Bilateral Relations: Lithuania in Lithuanian-Russian Relations since 2004", Baltic Journal of Political Science, 2015, vol. 4, pp. 70–93
