Dr Donatas Kupčiūnas

Position Governing Body Fellow
School Humanities and Social Sciences
Email dk658@cam.ac.uk
Department link Centre for Geopolitics, POLIS

Donatas is a Research Associate at the Centre for Geopolitics, Department of Politics and International Studies.

Donatas joined the Centre for Geopolitics at the Department of Politics and International Studies in 2021 as a postdoctoral research associate. He holds a DPhil in History at the University of Oxford, a Master of Laws in Public International Law at Leiden University, a Master of Arts in International Relations and European Studies from the Central European University, and a BA in Political Science from Vilnius University. His current research explores NATO expansion in the Baltic in the early 2000s, with a particular focus on Russian policy. In addition to running the Centre’s Baltic Geopolitics strand, Donatas teaches MPhil courses and supervises students in the field of geopolitics of the Baltic and Russia, past and present.

Donatas’ research interests include modern international history, relations between East/Central and Western Europe in the interwar period, cultural and intellectual history of diplomacy, geopolitics of the Baltic sea region, international law of global security and contemporary Russian foreign policy. His book 'The Devil’s Paradise: the Vilnius conflict in European diplomacy, 1919-1923' is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.

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Postgraduate Research Soirée

09/05/2024 at 17.45

Join Wolfson postgraduate students as they talk about their research in an informal evening of interesting presentations and friendly discussion – complete with wine and cheese!