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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
International Relations Theories
Foreign Policy Analysis
Power and Communication
Feminism: Texts and Practices
Introduction to Research Design
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
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
Jakniūnaitė, D. (2017) "When States Lose Territory: Georgia‘s Post-2008 Adjustment", Baltic Journal of Political Science, 6, pp. 60-74. https://doi.org/10.15388/BJPS.2017.6.11594
Jakniūnaitė, D. (2017) "Invested in Ukraine: The Struggle of Lithuania against Russia Over the Future of Europe", in Besier, G. and Stoklosa, K. (eds), Neighbourhood Perceptions of the Ukraine Crisis: From Soviet Union into Eurasia?, Routledge, pp. 119–132. ISBN: 9781138361300.
