We are happy to inform that dr Tomasz Pugacewicz was awarded a grant within the 13th edition of Sonata, a National Science Centre (NCN) funding scheme for young doctors at the beginning of their academic career. The awarded project was titled “Between Centre and Semi-Periphery: A Comparison of Ludwik Ehrlich's Theoretical Concepts with American-British International Relations in the Frist Half of the Twentieth Century”.

Dr Tomasz Pugacewicz – Doctor of Political Science and Assistant Professor at the Chair in the Diplomatic History and International Politics of the Institute of Political Science and International Relations of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. In 2015, he defended his doctoral dissertation titled Mechanizmy kształtowania polityki zagranicznej USA wobec państw regionu Morza Kaspijskiego po 1991 roku [U.S. foreign policy decision making towards the countries of the Caspian region after 1991] with honours at the Institute of Political Science and International Relations of the Jagiellonian University. The theoretical aspects of this dissertation were published in the monograph Teorie polityki zagranicznej. Perspektywa amerykańskiej analizy polityki zagranicznej [Theories of Foreign Policy. American Foreign Policy Analysis Perspective] (Jagiellonian University Press, Kraków 2017).

During his internships abroad, he was a visiting researcher at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University in Washington DC and participated in a bilateral exchange programme at the Heidelberg University and the State University of New York (SUNY). Between 2011 and 2014, he completed a NCN research grant related with the subject of his dissertation. Participant of several workshops, trainings, and summer schools, organised among others, by the International Studies Association, European Consortium for Political Research, Panteion University of Athens, Foundation for Polish Science, and Polish International Studies Association. In 2015, he participated in the Ideas Lab — the Young Professionals Programme at the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland.