Dr. Dovilė Jakniūnaitė
Professor
Department
Department of International Relations
Research groups
Feminist policy and critical theory research group
Politics of technology research group
Research group on Belarus
Research areas
International Relations
Research
Language(s) of War
Students’ research. The Significance and Challenges of Perceptions of External Identity for Lithuanian Foreign Policy
Eastern European Leftist Feminisms and Their Political Visions: Alternative Narratives of Belonging in Pluralistic Societies
Mobility, Migration and the COVID-19 Epidemic: Governing Emergencies in Lithuania and Poland
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dovile.jakniunaite@tspmi.vu.lt
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Dr. Dovile Jakniunaite is professor at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science of Vilnius University, head of the Institute’s International Relations Department. Her main fields of expertise are foreign policy analysis, security studies, international relations theory, border studies, Russian foreign policy, conflicts in Georgia and Ukraine, 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] (2015).
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 achievements. Since 2019 she is head of the Institute’s International Relations department.
Research projects and grants
- Research Council of Lithuania project “Mobility, Migration and the COVID-19 Epidemic: Governing Emergencies in Lithuania and Poland” (2021–2024), project leader.
- COST Action CA17119 “ENTER: EU Foreign Policy Facing New Realities”, 2018-2022, Member of the Management Committee.
- 2020: Bertelsmann Stiftung project “EU Survey on Whole-of-Government Approaches to External Conflict and Crisis”, project participant.
- H2020 project “EU- STRAT: The EU and Eastern Partnership Countries: An Inside-Out Analysis and Strategic Assessment”, 2016-2019, project participant.
- 2017: “Conceptualizing borders in 21st century: debates and practices in Central Eastern Europe”, Lithuanian Research Council, 2015-2017, project leader.
- 2017: 7th FP Marie Curie Actions project “EU-PREACC – Possibilities and Limits, Challenges and Obstacles of Transferring CEE EU Pre-accession Best Practices and Experience to Moldova’s and Georgia’s Pre-accession Process”, 2013–2017, Vilnius University project coordinator.
- 2015: EEA and Norwegian Financial Mechanisms bilateral cooperation fund project “Energy security in the Baltic Sea Region: regional coordination and management of interdependencies“, 2014-2015, project coordinator.
- 2014: Lithuanian Research Council project “Lithuanian Foreign Policy since 2004: between stability and change”, 2013-2014, project leader.
Courses taught
International Relations Theories
Foreign Policy Analysis
Power and Communication
Feminism: Texts and Practices
Introduction to Research Design
Research interests
Foreign policy analysis and identity studies
Security studies
Border studies
International relations theory
Russian identity and foreign policy
Lithuanian foreign policy
Territorial conflicts in Eastern Europe
De facto states
EU EaP policy
Theories of power
Feminist theory
Publications
Jakniūnaitė, D., "Nuo stabiliai blogų prie jokių: Lietuvos ir Rusijos santykiai 2004-2021 metais", kn. Lietuvos ir Rusijos sutartis dėl tarpvalstybinių santykių pagrindų, sud. Vytautas Sinkevičius, Vladimir Jarmolenko, Vilnius: Mykolo Riomerio Universitetas, 2021, 163–183. http://www.tspmi.vu.lt/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Nuo-stabiliai-blogų-prie-jokių_Lietuvos-ir-Rusijos-santykiai-2004-2021.pdf
Jakniūnaitė, D., Beržiūnas V., "Russia and the Baltic States after Regaining Independence", The Withdrawal of Soviet Troops from East Central Europe: National Perspectives in Comparison, Göttingen: Vanderhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021, 263-278. https://www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entdecken/geschichte/zeitgeschichte-ab-1949/56828/the-withdrawal-of-soviet-troops-from-east-central-europe
Jakniūnaitė, D., "Permanent Periphery of the Baltic States“, In A. Filippov, Nicolas Hayoz, Jens Herlth (eds.), Centres and Peripheries in the Post-Soviet Space: Relevance and Meanings of Classical Distinction, Berlin: Peter Lang, pp. 223-242.
Jakniūnaitė, D. (2020) “Lithuania.” In Europe’s Coherence Gap in External Crisis and Conflict Management: Political Rhetoric and Institutional Practices in the EU and Its Member States, edited by Bertelsmann Stiftung, 224–36. Bertelsmann Stiftung. Nuoroda internete: https://www.wga-project.eu/2020/Lithuania
Vilpišauskas, Ramūnas, Dovilė Jakniūnaitė, Marta Jaroszewicz, and Laurynas Jonavičius (2020), “Susceptibility of Ukrainian and Belarussian Domestic Actors to External Actors’ Approaches: Puzzling Patterns of Transition”, East European Politics, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/21599165.2020.1745190
Jakniūnaitė, D. (2017) Kaip tapti valstybe: sienos ir erdvės Gruzijos teritoriniuose konfliktuose, Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla. https://kolekcijos.biblioteka.vu.lt/islandora/object/kolekcijos%3AVUB01_000891922
