Dr. Habil. Marcin Kosienkowski, Associate Professor

Department of International Relations and Security (Institute of Political Science and Public Administration, Faculty of Social Sciences, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin).

e-mail: marcin.kosienkowski@kul.pl

ORCID: 0000-0002-7827-7371

 

Education and degrees:

2019 – Higher doctorate (DSc, or Habilitation) in Political Science; Faculty of History and Social Sciences, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, Poland.

2010 – Doctorate (PhD) in Political Science; Faculty of Political Science, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland.

2005 – Master’s degree in International Relations; Faculty of Political Science, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland.

 

Research interests:

  • Transnistria and the Gagauz Republic, Moldova and its autonomous region of Gagauzia, Ukrainian Bessarabia (Budjak);
  • De facto states, unilateral sovereignty referendums, patron–client relationship, legitimation, soft power, digital diplomacy.

 

Publications:

I. Books and shorter writings

  1. Marcin Kosienkowski, International Community’s Engagement with De Facto States: The Study of Cases [in Polish] (Lublin: The Catholic University of Lublin Publishing House, 2018), 251 pages.
  2. Kamil Całus, Marcin Kosienkowski, Piotr Oleksy, Jakub Pieńkowski, Robert Rajczyk, Transnistria. History – Politics – Economy [in Polish] (Poznań: EastWest Analytics, 2014), 77 pages.
  3. Marcin Kosienkowski and William Schreiber, Moldova’s National Minorities: Why are they Euroskeptical? (Национальные меньшинства Молдовы и их отношение к европейской интеграции / Les minorités nationales en Moldavie : pourquoi sont-elles eurosceptiques ?), Russie.Nei.Visions 81 (Paris: French Institute of International Relations, 2014), 20 pages.
  4. Marcin Kosienkowski, Continuity and Change in Transnistria’s Foreign Policy after the 2011 Presidential Elections (Lublin: The Catholic University of Lublin Publishing House, 2012), 55 pages.
  5. Marcin Kosienkowski, The Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic. Survival Determinants [in Polish] (Toruń: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek, 2010), 255 pages.
  6. Marcin Kosienkowski, Ukraine towards Transnistria [in Polish], Institute of Central-Eastern Europe Analysis, ed. Jerzy Kłoczowski and Andrzej Gil, vol. 27 (Lublin: Wydawnictwo Instytutu Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, 2009), 42 pages.
  7. Marcin Kosienkowski, The Russian Federation towards Transnistria [in Polish], Institute of Central-Eastern Europe Analysis, ed. Jerzy Kłoczowski and Andrzej Gil, vol. 21 (Lublin: Wydawnictwo Instytutu Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, 2008), 43 pages.
  8. Marcin Kosienkowski, Adaptive Strategy of the Russian Federation towards the Baltic States [in Polish] (Toruń: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Grado, 2006), 147 pages.

II. Edited books and journals

  1. Marcin Kosienkowski, ed., “Quasi-States in International Relations,” a special section in Roczniki Nauk Społecznych, no. 1 (2016): 7–86.
  2. William Schreiber and Marcin Kosienkowski, eds., Digital Eastern Europe (Wrocław: The Jan Nowak Jezioranski College of Eastern Europe, 2015) (eBook).
  3. Beata Piskorska and Marcin Kosienkowski, eds., Moldova and the European Union: From Cooperation to Integration [in Polish] (Lublin: The Catholic University of Lublin Publishing House, 2014), 188 pages.
  4. Marcin Kosienkowski and Beata Piskorska, eds., Digital Diplomacy as a Tool of a 21st-Century Foreign Policy [in Polish] (Lublin: The Catholic University of Lublin Publishing House, 2014), 213 pages.
  5. Marcin Kosienkowski, ed., Polish-Moldovan Encounters: The Commemorative Book for Professor Janusz Solak  [in Polish] (Lublin: Episteme, 2013), 348 pages.
  6. Marcin Kosienkowski and William Schreiber, eds., Moldova: Arena of International Influences (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2012), 286 pages.

III. Journal articles

  1. Marcin Kosienkowski and Magdalena Dembińska, "Russia’s Patronage over Post-Soviet De Facto States: Protecting Compatriots or Geopolitical Interest in Transnistria?" Geopolitics (2024): 1–22 (online first), DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2024.2329948
  2. Marcin Kosienkowski and Kateřina Ženková Rudincová, “Client De Facto States and Quasi-Patrons: Insights from the Relationship Between Somaliland and Ethiopia,” Ethnopolitics 23, no. 2 (2024): 152–172, DOI:10.1080/17449057.2022.2121470
  3. Marcin Kosienkowski, “The Life after Life of the 2006 Transnistrian Sovereignty Referendum,” Nationalities Papers (2023): 1–22 (online first), DOI: 10.1017/nps.2023.91
  4. Marcin Kosienkowski, “Four Problems of De Facto State Studies: A Central European Perspective,” Polish Political Science Yearbook 52, no. 1 (2023): 41–53, DOI:10.15804/ppsy202244
  5. Marcin Kosienkowski, “The 2006 Sovereignty Referendum in Transnistria: A Device for Electoral Advantage,” Ethnopolitics 21, no. 5 (2022): 496–516, DOI:10.1080/17449057.2021.1953317
  6. Marcin Kosienkowski, “The Russian World as a Legitimation Strategy Outside Russia: The Case of Gagauzia,” Eurasian Geography and Economics 62, no. 3 (2021): 319–46, DOI:10.1080/15387216.2020.1793682
  7. Marcin Kosienkowski, “The Gagauz Republic: An Autonomism-Driven De Facto State,” The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review 44, no. 3 (2017): 292–313, DOI: 10.1163/18763324-20171233.
  8. Marcin Kosienkowski, “The Gagauz Republic: Internal Dynamics of De Facto Statehood,” Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska. Sectio K: Politologia 24, no. 1 (2017), 115–33, DOI:10.17951/k.2017.24.1.115.
  9. Marcin Kosienkowski, Jakub Pieńkowski, "Socio-Cultural Dimension of Romanian-Moldovan Relations after Romania's accession to the European Union" [in Polish], Studia Wschodnioeuropejskie 1 (2015): 112–23.
  10. Marcin Kosienkowski, “Transnistria and Ukraine’s Security“ [in Polish], Securitologia, no. 1 (2014): 93–103.
  11. Marcin Kosienkowski, “Poland toward Moldova and Transnistria” [in Polish], Rocznik Instytutu Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej 10, no. 1 (2012): 91–106.
  12. Marcin Kosienkowski, “The Alliance for European Integration and the Transnistrian Conflict Settlement,” Sprawy Narodowościowe – Nationalities Affairs 38 (June 2011): 23–32.
  13. Marcin Kosienkowski, “The Quasi-state in International Relations” [in Polish], Stosunki Międzynarodowe – International Relations 38, nos. 3–4 (2008): 151–62.
  14. Marcin Kosienkowski, “The Concept and Determinants of the Quasi-state Sustainability” [in Polish], Rocznik Instytutu Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej 6 (2008): 121–30.
  15. Marcin Kosienkowski, “The origins, status and functioning of the Autonomous Territory of Gagauzia” [in Polish], Stosunki Międzynarodowe – International Relations 36, nos. 3–4 (2007): 207–19.

IV. Book Chapters

  1. Marcin Kosienkowski, “The patron–client relationship between Russia and Transnistria,” in De Facto States in Eurasia, ed. Tomáš Hoch and Vincenc Kopeček (Abingdon: Routledge, 2019), 183–207, DOI: 10.4324/9780429244049-14.
  2. Kamil Całus and Marcin Kosienkowski, “Relations between Moldova and the European Union,” in The European Union and its eastern neighbourhood: Europeanisation and its twenty-first-century contradictions, ed. Paul Flenley and Michael Mannin (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018), 99–113, DOI: 10.7765/9781526109118.00017.
  3. Marcin Kosienkowski, William Schreiber, and Joyce Hahn, “Social Media in the Service of Territorial Reintegration in the post-Soviet Area,” in Digital Eastern Europe, ed. William Schreiber and Marcin Kosienkowski (Wrocław: The Jan Nowak Jezioranski College of Eastern Europe, 2015) (eBook).
  4. Marcin Kosienkowski, “Ethnic policy of Moldova,” in: Ethnic Policy in Contemporary East Central European Countries, ed. Henryk Chałupczak, Radosław Zenderowski, and Walenty Baluk (Lublin: Maria Curie-Skłodowska University Press, 2015), 261–302.
  5. Marcin Kosienkowski, “Russia's Digital Diplomacy“ [in Polish], in Digital Diplomacy as a Tool of a 21st-Century Foreign Policy, ed. Marcin Kosienkowski and Beata Piskorska (Lublin: The Catholic University of Lublin Publishing House, 2014), 169–92.
  6. Marcin Kosienkowski, “Is internationally recognised independence the goal of quasi-states? The case of Transnistria," in Moldova: In search of its own place in Europe, ed. Natalia Cwicinskaja and Piotr Oleksy (Bygdoszcz: Epigram, 2013), 55–65.
  7. Andrey Devyatkov and Marcin Kosienkowski, "Testing Pluralism: Transnistria in the Light of 2011 Presidential Elections," in Polish-Moldovan Encounters: The Commemorative Book for Professor Janusz Solak, ed. Marcin Kosienkowski (Lublin: Episteme, 2013), 303–28.
  8. Marcin Kosienkowski, "Poland: Rediscovering Moldova," in Moldova: Arena of International Influences, ed. Marcin Kosienkowski and William Schreiber (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2012), 143–57.
  9. Marcin Kosienkowski, “Moldova and Transnistria towards the August War” [in Polish], in The Caucasian Conflict of 2008, ed. Robert Potocki, Marcin Domagała, and Przemysław Sieradzan (Warsaw: Europejskie Centrum Analiz Geopolitycznych, 2012), 343–56.
  10. Marcin Kosienkowski, “Political System of Moldova” [in Polish], in Political Institutions and Systems, ed. Bożena Dziemidok-Olszewska and Wojciech Sokół, vol. 2 of The Encyclopedia of Political Science (Warsaw: Wolters Kluwer, 2012), 761–66.
  11. Marcin Kosienkowski, “The Origin, Organizational System and Activity of the Community for Democracy and Rights of Nations” [in Polish], in The Commonwealth of Independent States: Fragmegration – Security – Ethnic Conflicts, ed. Tomasz Kapuśniak (Lublin: Wydawnictwo Instytutu Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, 2011), 87–97.
  12. Marcin Kosienkowski, “Nation-building Process in the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic” [in Polish], in Dwie dekady transformacji w Europie Środkowej i Wschodniej 1989–2009, ed. Alicja Stępień-Kuczyńska, Maciej Potz, and Michał Słowikowski (Toruń: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek, 2011), 347–55.
  13. Marcin Kosienkowski, “Poland’s Policy towards Moldova” [in Polish], in Poland’s Eastern Policy. Conditions – Concepts – Realisation (Lublin–Warsaw: Instytut Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, 2009), 267–80.
  14. Marcin Kosienkowski, “The Russian Federation position on the status of Abkhazia and the South Ossetia” [in Polish], in The Caucasus Region in International Relations, ed. Krzysztof Iwańczuk and Tomasz Kapuśniak (Lublin: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej, 2008), 209–18.

V. Publications in electronic issues of New Eastern Europe and Nowa Europa Wschodnia

  1. Marcin Kosienkowski, "The Republic of Budjak: Next in line?," New Eastern Europe, January 2, 2015.
  2. Marcin Kosienkowski, "Ukraine and Transnistria: A Troubled Borderland" / "Украина и Приднестровье: напряженность на границе," New Eastern Europe, September 29, 2014.
  3. Marcin Kosienkowski, "Twitter Diplomacy at Work," New Eastern Europe, December 4, 2013.
  4. Marcin Kosienkowski, "Tiraspol: More Russian than Russia" [in Polish], Nowa Europa Wschodnia, August 12, 2012.
  5. Marcin Kosienkowski, "Poland and Transnistria: Time for the Engagement?" [in Polish], Nowa Europa Wschodnia, October 5, 2012.
  6. Marcin Kosienkowski, "Transnistria’s Model of Facebook Diplomacy," New Eastern Europe, September 18, 2012.
  7. Andrey Devyatkov and Marcin Kosienkowski, “Moldova vs. Transnistria: Thinking beyond pragmatism," New Eastern Europe, August 6, 2012.
  8. William Schreiber and Marcin Kosienkowski, “Cautious Optimism for Transnistria” (based on the interview with Yevgeniy Shevchuk, Transnistria's president), New Eastern Europe, April 5, 2012.

VI. Book reviews

  1. Marcin Kosienkowski, review of A Community by Accident: An Identity Study of the People of Pridnestrovie [in Polish], by Piotr Oleksy, Roczniki Nauk Społecznych, no. 1 (2017): 156–59.
  2. Marcin Kosienkowski, review of The Constitutional System of Moldova [in Polish], by Robert Rajczyk, Przegląd Sejmowy 127, no. 2 (2015): 201–5.

VII. Others

  1. William Schreiber and Marcin Kosienkowski, “A Democratic Chance in a Post-Soviet Holdout” / "Постсоветский реликт и его демократический шанс," Wall Street Journal, December 9–11, 2011, 18.
  2. Марчин Косенковский, “Итоги 2008 года в приднестровском урегулировании,“ Вестник Центра исследований Южно-украинского пограничья, no. 1 (2009): 10.

 

Short-term internships:

Chernivtsi National University (Ukraine, 2015); Tsentr issledovaniy yuzhno-ukrainskogo pogranich’ya, Kherson (Ukraine, 2011 and 2007); Pridnestrovskiy gosudarstvennyy universitet, Tiraspol (Moldova–Transnistria, 2009); Universitatea de Stat din Moldova, Chisinau (Moldova, 2008); Moskovskiy Tsentr Karnegi, Moscow (Russia, 2007); Polish Embassy in Moldova, Chisinau (Moldova, 2007 and 2006); Institutul de Politici Publice, Chisinau (Moldova, 2007); Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Warsaw (Poland, 2005); Polish Embassy in Estonia, Tallinn (Estonia, 2004); General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces, Warsaw (Poland, 2004); Centre for Eastern Studies, Warsaw (Poland, 2004); Institute of Central-Eastern Europe, Lublin (Poland, 2004).

 

Participation in research projects:

  • 2013–2015 – Investigator, “Ethnic Policy in Contemporary East Central European Countries,” research project supported by the Polish National Science Centre (NCN).
  • 2013 – Investigator, “Secession in the post-Soviet Area: Political Consequences for International Affairs,” research project supported by the Russian Foundation for Humanistic Research (РГНФ).
  • 2008–2010 – Grant from the Republic of Poland’s Ministry of Science and Higher Education for a research project on “The determinants of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic’s sustainability.”

 

Peer reviewing:

  • Reviewed article manuscripts for: Czech Journal of International Relations, Demokratizatsiya, East European Politics and Societies, Ethnopolitics, Eurasian Geography and Economics, Europe-Asia Studies, European Politics and Society, European Review, International Journal of Conflict and Violence, International Politics, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Nationalities Papers, Polish Political Science Yearbook, Problems of Post-Communism, Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, Slavic Review, and Südosteuropa.
  • Reviewed a book proposal for Routledge.
  • Reviewed a book manuscript by Jerzy Hatłas, Bulgarians in Bessarabia: 200 years of history [in Polish] (Poznań: Oficyna Wydawnicza Garmond, 2014), 133 pages.
  • Evaluated a research grant proposal for the Irish Research Council.
  • Checked and revised a section “Gagauzia,” in: Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia 2019 (Abingdon: Routledge, 2018).

 

Honors and awards:

  • 2021 – Medal of the Commission of National Education.
  • 2019 and 2017 – The Catholic University of Lublin Rector’s Awards for Research Accomplishments.
  • 2006 – the main award for the best MA thesis on International Relations at the Faculty of Political Science of Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland.

 

Марчин Косенковский, д.полит.н., проф. Люблинского католического университета Иоанна Павла II . Обо мне на русском языке

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