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IR scholarship in Poland: the state of the discipline 25 years after the transition to democracy

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The paper discusses the state of International Relations (IR) in Poland. In the first part, it shows IR’s history, institutional conditions, and its level of internationalisation, particularly the influence of Polish scholars working in the West on the development of the discipline. In the second part, it offers a systematic empirical analysis of IR articles published from 2007 to 2012 in Poland’s top seven IR and political science journals concerning the areas that IR scholars work in, the theories and methods they apply, and their geographical areas of interest. The findings show that a descriptive approach dominates and that there are significant deficiencies in both the methodology (particularly quantitative methods) and the theory of IR. However, the Polish community of IR scholars is aware of these weaknesses and is undertaking organisational efforts aimed at improving the quality and status of IR scholarship in the country.

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  1. The article by Czaputowicz (2012) provides a general overview of the discipline. The current one offers an extensive empirical part, analyses the institutional context, and develops a more in-depth analysis of the history of the discipline and the role of Poles working abroad.

  2. American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, European Journal of International Relations, International Organization, International Security, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Politics, Security Studies, and World Politics.

  3. For example, we did not use variables such as: ‘paradigms advanced/advocated by author’, ‘paradigms taken seriously by author or used as alternative explanation’, ‘synthesis — whether or not the author attempts to synthesise explanations from two or more paradigms’, ‘ideational — what is the role of ideas in explanations for outcomes in IR’, ‘material — use of material factors in either the independent or dependent variables’. Similarly, the division into nine periods from prehistory to the present was not considered useful, as Polish papers rarely cover history before 1918 (Long et al. 2005: 10–16).

  4. We decided to refer to the list from 2011. Stosunki Międzynarodowe (StM), Sprawy Międzynarodowe (SM) and Przegląd Zachodni (PZ) all got 9 credits and Polski Przegląd Dyplomatyczny (PPD) 6 credits. Politeja (Pt) got 6, Studia Polityczne (SP) 9, and Przegląd Politologiczny (PP) 9. In 2012, two of the analysed journals — Sprawy Międzynarodowe and Polski Przegląd Dyplomatyczny — disappeared from the list as their publisher did not fulfil in a timely fashion the new formal requirements set by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. All other journals, apart from Politeja, were downgraded to 7 credits, while Politeja was upgraded to 7 credits. We have not included the journals that publish articles from EU studies, for example, Studia Europejskie (9 credits) or Yearbook of Polish European Studies (6 credits). Studia Politologiczne, the journal published by the Faculty of Journalism and Political Sciences at the University of Warsaw, got a high number of credits (9), but it turned out that the issues were topic-oriented and that during the period under study only one issue was covering IR, namely 21/2008, which discussed IR in Central Asia. Therefore, we decided not to include this journal.

  5. The highest difference we can observe concerns realism; 1.4 per cent of articles written by men were within this approach, while only 0.4 per cent written by women classify as such. Both numbers, however, are small. Another difference is that more male (17.4 per cent) than female scholars (10.1 per cent) were writing about international history.

  6. PPD was also publishing a substantive number of short ‘voices of discussion’ on specific foreign policy problems, which were not included in the qualitative analysis, such as the United States’ relations with Central Europe, the myth of Yalta after 65 years, Greece and the Euro crisis, the gas crisis, the Obama foreign policy, the Polish way to NATO, the situation in Afghanistan, the situation in Caucasus, EU policies towards Russia, the EU and the missile defence shield.

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Research was conducted within the project ‘The state of the International Relations and European Studies disciplines in Poland’, financed within Opus 4 by the Polish National Science Centre, grant No. UMO-2012/07/B/HS5/03961. We are grateful to Daniel Maliniak, Michael J. Tierney, Kamil Ławniczak and three anonymous reviewers for their comments on this paper

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Czaputowicz, J., Wojciuk, A. IR scholarship in Poland: the state of the discipline 25 years after the transition to democracy. J Int Relat Dev 19, 448–474 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1057/jird.2014.21

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