Xymena Kurowska

Xymena Kurowska is an IR theorist interested in interpretive policy analysis. She earned her doctoral degree from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. Her research and writing concentrate on interdisciplinary approaches to security and international state-building, with the focus on EU’s security policy making and border policies in EU’s Eastern Neighbouhood. She is a fellow of the European Foreign and Security Policy Studies Programme. She is also currently researching defence cooperation in Central Europe.

Supervision:

I welcome MA and PhD topics dealing with: security theory; the external/internal security policy; international state-building, including security sector reform; EU-Eastern Europe relations (in particular Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine); and defence cooperation in Central Europe.

Xymena Kurowska is on sabbatical leave in the 2011 Fall Semester.

Publications:

• ‘EU’s Eastern Partnership – More for More or More of the Same?’ (with P. Pawlak), Yearbook of Polish European Studies, forthcoming 2012.
• Explaining the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy. Theory in Action - co-editor with Fabian Breuer, Palgrave, 2012.
• The Politics of European Security Policies: Actors, Dynamics and Contentious Outcomes, co-editor with P. Pawlak, Routledge, 2012.
• 'The Fog of Border. The Fragmentation of EU's Border Policies' (with P. Pawlak) in: Ch. Kaunert et al (eds.) European Homeland Security. Politics, Coincidence and Strategy, Routledge, 2012.
• 'The Social Constructivist Sensibility and Research on Common Security and Defence Policy' (with F. Kratochwil) in X. Kurowska and F. Breuer (eds.) Explaining the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy. Theory in Action, Palgrave, 2012.
• ‘Transatlantic Approaches to Border Reform in the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood –Paradigmatic Synergies and Daily Division (of Labour)’ in: Beyond Terrorism and Privacy. The EU-US Security and Justice Agenda in Action, Paris: EU Institute for Security Studies, 2011.
• 'The role of EU in international crisis management – innovative model or emulated script?' (with T. Seitz) in: A. Juncos and E. Gross (eds) EU’s Conflict Prevention and Crisis Management, Routledge, 2011.
• ‘Solana Milieu’ – Framing Security Policy’ in: Perspectives on European Politics and Society 10 (4), 2009. 
• ‘EUJUST Themis – a EU rule of law mission in Georgia’ in G. Grevi and D. Keohane (eds) Ten years of the European Security and Defence Policy, Paris: EU Institute for Security Studies, 2009.
• ‘EU Border Assistance Mission to Ukraine and Moldova – Beyond Border Monitoring?’ (with B. Tallis), European Foreign Affairs Review 14/1 (2009): 47–64; awarded an annual prize for the best article published in European Foreign Affairs Review in 2009.
• ‘The Role of Missions in ESDP’ in: M. Merlingen and R. Ostraukaite (eds) (2008) The European Security and Defence Policy: Implementation Perspective, Routledge.