Dr. Justyna Zayac is Professor of Practice in European Security Studies Department of International Studies and Department of Political Science, and Jean Monnet Chair of European Security at Indiana University—Bloomington. She is also full professor of politics at Warsaw University, Poland.

Dr. Zayac is a specialist on international relations with special emphasis on international security and foreign policy analysis. She has been primarily preoccupied with European security, broadly understood, and its Mediterranean and East-Central European aspects. Dr. Zayac is also interested in Euro-Atlantic security and political cooperation in the context of global redistribution of power and Russia’s revisionist policy, in particular. Additionally, her research includes Poland’s foreign and security policy.

Dr. Zayac has published numerous books and papers in Poland, France, Germany, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, and Jordan. Her most recent book is Poland’s Security Policy: The West, Russia, and the Changing International Order, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2016. She has given lectures at various universities in Poland, the United States, Italy, Sweden, Serbia, Kosovo, Turkey, and India. She has taught Theories of International Relations, Introduction to the Study of International Politics, International Politics, Poland’s Foreign Policy, Diplomacy, Security, and Governance.

Dr. Zayac was appointed by the President of the Republic of Poland to serve as a member of the National Strategic Review Committee. She was a member and a Chairperson of the Council of Young Scientists of the Minister of Science and Higher Education and a two-term member of the Steering Committee of the Standing Group on International Relations, European Consortium for Political Research. Finally, she authored a number of expert opinions for Poland’s Ministry of Regional Development and National Security Bureau as well as the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.