Eglė E. Murauskaitė
Lecturer
Research areas
International Relations
Additional info
emurauskaite@gmail.com
Egle E. Murauskaite is a senior faculty specialist at the University of Maryland. Presently based in Lithuania, she works as a researcher and simulations designer for the ICONS Project. Egle is responsible for high-level political-military crises simulations in Europe, alongside academic research and government consulting projects. She has recently co-authored a book exploring the U.S., Russian, and Chinese perspectives on Gray Zone Warfare, and presently leads a research project on the impact of Western assistance in Ukraine. She has been working with unconventional security threats for the past 14 years – from gray zone warfare to proliferation of nuclear weapons. Egle is also a senior non-resident fellow with the Vilnius Institute for Policy Analysis, and co-author of a monthly podcast “NYLA Update”. Egle lectures at Vilnius University and Kaunas University of Technology, and also regularly comments on security issues in national and international media. Egle holds a Master’s degree from Sciences Po Paris (International Security) and a Bachelor’s degree from SSE Riga (Economics and Business Management); her professional experience spans the Netherlands, Australia, Egypt, France, and the U.S.
Research projects and grants, your position in the projects
• PI: “Western Tools Short of War: Impact Assessment of Selected Use Cases in Ukraine” (ATAC, 2022-2023);
• Country lead and Lithuania research team management for “The Role of Emotions in Adversarial Information Campaigns” (DoD Minerva, 2019-2021);
• Lead research design, theory development, and project management for “Escalation Management in Gray Zone Crises” (DoD Minerva, 2018-2021);
• Lead research design and project management for Cross Domain Deterrence study (UCSD/ Minerva/EUCOM, 2015-2017)
Online crises simulations:
• U.S. in a two-front Gray Zone Crisis: Confronting China and Russia (Joint Staff, 2021);
• Leave-behind Resistance Movements (SOCEUR, 2019);
• Strategic Outcomes in North Korea (Joint Staff, 2018);
• Countering ISIS (CENTCOM, 2017);
• Responding to Russian Gray Zone Threats in Eastern Europe (SOCOM, 2016);
• Role of NATO in the Black Sea region (EUCOM, 2015)
Membership of working groups, commissions or committees set up by public authorities, state and municipal bodies, companies and organisations, businesses (e.g. the Council for State Progress)
“U.S.-Ukraine co-operation in the information space,” Phoenix Challenge Conference, London, UK, March 2, 2023;
– “How Does It Feel To Talk About Russia?” Biennial Conference of the American Association of Baltic Studies (AABS), University of Washington, Seattle, May 28, 2022;
– “Attitudes toward Russia: Discourse Analysis,” International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Conference for Nashville, TN, March 28, 2022.
– “Escalation Management in Gray Zone Crises: The Proxy Factor,” ISA March 24-28, 2020, Honolulu, USA;
– “Resources Versus Norms: Exploring Measures Short of War in Competitive Relationships,” Pan-European Conference on International Relations, Sofia, Sep 11-14, 2019;
– “Escalation Management in the Gray Zone: Great Power Decision Calculus,” Central and Eastern European International Studies Association (CEEISA), June 18, 2019
Research interests
International security
WMD
Migration and terrorism
Emotion and narrative studies
Crisis management (TTX),
Interdisciplinary studies
Publications
War in Ukraine: Understanding Western Tools Short of War, De Gruyter (forthcoming);
“Illicit Networks and Nuclear Material Trafficking”, in C. Hobbs, S. Tzinieris, and S. Aghara (Eds.), Nuclear Security Handbook, Oxford University Press (forthcoming);
Escalation Management in International Crises: The United States Confronts its Adversaries, editors, with J. Wilkenfeld, Edward Elgar Publishing, (2023);
“Foreign Fighters in Ukraine: Assessing Potential Risks,” Vilnius Institute for Policy Analysis (VPAI), March 2020;
“European Power Triad and Lithuanian Security Cooperation,” in I. Matonyte (Ed.) (2020), Lithuania in the Global Context – Security and Defence Policy Dilemmas, pp. 151-162;
“How Does It Feel to Talk About Russia?,” with M. A. Johns, S. B. F. Paletz, and N. Pandza, Journal of Baltic Studies (forthcoming);
