Profile of Aleksandra Spalińska

About

Research Associate at the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex and Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Warsaw (awaiting defence). B.A. in European Studies and M.A. in Political Science (also the University of Warsaw). I am a coordinator of the Multiplicity Research Programme (in International Relations), led by Justin Rosenberg from the University of Sussex. Due to my organising role for the Multiplicity group, I served as a workshop co-convenor for the European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS) and as a section co-chair for the EISA Pan-European Conference in International Relations (EISA PEC) in 2022. In 2023 for the EISA PEC, I co-organise (with Philip Cerny) a section on heterarchy in world politics. This section is a part of the research programme on the theory and practice of heterarchy. For the years 2024-2026, I'm co-chairing (with Jochen Kleinschmidt) a Standing Section at EISA "Exploring World Politics Beyond the State System: Spaces, Relations, and Steuggles." This section includes the themes crucial for Multuplicity and Heterarchy. Research interests: 1. IR theory and the internstional. 2. Research design and knowledge production in IR. 3. Non-state actors in world politics and in IR theory. 4. Polity formation (Rokkan, Bartolini) and political development. 5. Western anxieties and the Interregnum. Some of these topics are covered in the following publications: 1. "Idea of the New Medievalism and European (Dis)integration" (in Polish), Rambler Press, Warsaw, 2017. 2. "The Political and Authority Between the Archetype of Polis and the Universe of New Medievalism" (in Polish), Adam Marszalek Publishing House, 2019. 3. "New Medievalism (Re)appraised: Framing Heterarchy in World Politics" (chapter) in "Heterarchy in World Politics," ed. by Philip G. Cerny, London-New York: Routledge, 2022. 4. "From World Politics to Time Epistemics: a Story of a Certain Scholar" (chapter) in "Palgrave Handbook of Global Politics in the 22nd Century," ed. by Laura Horn, Franziska Muller, and Aysem Mert, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. Beyond that, I have been writing book reviews for "International Affairs," "Journal of Common Market Studies," and "Political Studies Review." My doctoral dissertation examines new medievalism in political research. Twitter: @AleksandraSpal3 Mastodon: @AlexSpal@mstdn.social

Research Interests

European Union, Globalisation, Governance, International Relations, Political Theory, Global, International, Post-Modernism, Post-Structuralism, Differentiation, Ethics, Normative Theory, Theoretical