TSPMIDefended theses

Defended theses

The Role of Catholicism in Everyday Thinking about the European Union: Lithuanian Case

Rosita Garškaitė-Antonowicz Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Inga Vinogradnaitė Date of defence 2023-09-29

Safeguarding the Euro Area: How Politics of Conditionality and Financial Markets Affect Crisis Management Roles of the ECB and the ECJ

Marijus Bernatavičius Supervisor: Prof. Ramūnas Vilpišauskas Date of defence 2023-06-30

The Reconstruction of Belarusian National Identity: Discourses and Processes, 2014–2019

Juljan Jachovič Supervisor: Prof. Dovilė Jakniūnaitė Date of defence 2023-02-24

“They were all patriots anyway, they wanted independence”: memory work and understanding of the previous regime in the generation after the transformative turning point

Liucija Vervečkienė Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Inga Vinogradnaitė Date of defence 2022-12-16

Indeterminacy of Societal Security: The Case of NATO’s Small States

Neringa Bladaitė Supervisor: Prof. Margarita Šešelgytė Date of defence 2022-09-30

Monuments in Lithuania: shaping state identity

Viktorija Rimaitė-Beržiūnienė Supervisor: Prof. Alvydas Jokubaitis Date of defence 2022-04-01

Good Neighbor and Bad Neighbor? Differentiation in the US and EU Southern Neighborhood Strategies 2014-2017

Ieva Giedraitytė Supervisor: Prof. Ramūnas Vilpišauskas Date of defence 2021-04-22

Poland’s Relations with Russia 2001-2013: Attempts at Normalisation

Marijuš Antonovič Supervisor: Prof. Tomas Janeliūnas Date of defence 2020-10-22

Traditions and Reforms: Enlightenment Influences on Lithuanian Political thought

Vilius Mačkinis Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Vladas Sirutavičius Date of defence 2019-06-20

The Idea of Honor as a Means to Understand Democracy. The Perspective of XVIII-XIX Century Political Philosophy

Gintas Karalius Supervisor: Prof. Alvydas Jokubaitis Date of defence 2019-05-30

Potential of international cooperation and conflict in cyberspace

Agnija Tumkevič Supervisor: Prof. Tomas Janeliūnas Date of defence 2019-03-07

The conception of representation of the Lithuanian populist parties and its relationship with representative democracy

Jogilė Ulinskaitė Supervisor: Prof. Ainė Ramonaitė Date of defence 2018-07-01

The political economy of European financial services regulation: explaining EU banking policy stability and change

Marius Skuodis Supervisor: Prof. Ramūnas Vilpišauskas Date of defence 2018-02-08

The Many Faces of Jean Monnet: European Identity Projects in Scholarly Narratives

Adomas Pūras Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Inga Vinogradnaitė Date of defence 2017-09-14

Lithuanian foreign policy formation and the factors of identity

Valentinas Beržiūnas Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dovilė Jakniūnaitė Date of defence 2017-06-14

Assessing Iranian Foreign Policy through the Perspective of Khumayni’s Concept of Justice

Ieva Koreivaitė Supervisors: Prof. Evalas Nekrašas and Assoc. Prof. Dovilė Jakniūnaitė Date of defence 2016-11-06

The Impact of the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia on Reconciliation in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Lina Strupinskienė Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Inga Vinogradnaitė Date of defence 2015-06-18

Burden sharing behaviour of small NATO States (2007-2012)

Martynas Zapolskis Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Tomas Janeliūnas Date of defence 2015-02-05

The integration of return migrants in their home country’s labour market: evidence from Lithuania

Dovilė Jonavičienė Supervisor: Prof. Vitalis Nakrošis Date of defence 2014-10-02

Post-communism as the form of the political

Vaidotas Valantiejus Supervisor: Prof. Alvydas Jokubaitis Date of defence 2014-07-03

Formation of the Attitudes Towards Political Issues in Post-Communist Country: Case Study of Lithuania

Ieva Petronytė Supervisor: Prof. Ainė Ramonaitė Date of defence 2014-05-08

The Clash Between China’s and Russia’s Interests of Regional Hegemony in the 21st Century

Konstantinas Andrijauskas Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Vladas Sirutavičius Date of defence 2014-02-27

Electoral volatility in Lithuanian municipal council elections, 1995–2011

Mažvydas Jastramskis Supervisor: Prof. Ainė Ramonaitė Date of defence 2013-09-19

The Political Economy of Internal Adjustment in the Baltic States: Explaining Responses to the Crisis

Vytautas Kuokštis Supervisor: Prof. Ramūnas Vilpišauskas Date of defence 2013-04-04

Metapolitics for Europe: Holy See and Lithuania

Žygimantas Pavilionis Supervisor: Prof. Evaldas Nekrašas Date of defence 2013-01-17

The Concept of “State” in Lithuania: Origins and Development of the Modern Lithuanian Political Thought

Justinas Dementavičius Supervisors: Prof. Vytautas Radžvilas and Prof. Alvydas Jokubaitis Date of defence 2012-12-13

The Impact of the US Military Transformation on Russian and Chinese Security Policy

Karolis Aleksa Supervisor: Prof. Gediminas Vitkus Date of defence 2012-11-29

Transformation of postcommunist states and their welfare regimes: comparative analysis of Baltic countries

Liutauras Gudžinskas Supervisors: Assoc. Prof. Algimantas Jankauskas and Prof. Zenonas Norkus Date of defence 2012-09-13

Problem of Political Stability in Central Asian States: Challenges and Fundamentals of Stabilization

Vadim Volovoj Supervisor: Prof. Evaldas Nekrašas Date of defence 2012-05-24

Implications of EU Internal Integration for External Europeanisation: Case Studies of Ukraine and Russia

Laurynas Kasčiūnas Supervisors: Prof. Raimundas Lopata and Assoc. Prof. Tomas Janeliūnas Date of defence 2012-04-19

The Impact of Democracy Protection Policy on Democratic Consolidation: US Policy in Russia, Georgia and Ukraine

Povilas Žielys Supervisors: Prof. Evaldas Nekrašas and Assoc. Prof. Vladas Sirutavičius Date of defence 2012-03-01

Military as the Forgotten Dimension of Political Theory

Deividas Šlekys Supervisor: Prof. Alvydas Jokubaitis Date of defence 2012-02-02

The Role of Historical Analogies in Foreign Policy Formulation and Implementation: the Case of Cold War Historical Analogy

Diana Jurgelevičiūtė Supervisor: Dr. Nortautas Statkus Date of defence 2011-10-20

Research into the durability of military alliance: the case of Russia and Belarus

Gražvydas Jasutis Supervisor: Prof. Raimundas Lopata Date of defence 2011-05-12

The political economy of skills formation: explaining differences in Central and Eastern Europe

Žilvinas Martinaitis Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Vitalis Nakrošis Date of defence 2010-10-21

Structural Influence of External Factors on the Transformation of Post-soviet Regimes: Cases of Ukraine and Georgia

Laurynas Jonavičius Supervisor: Prof. Raimundas Lopata Date of defence 2010-02-18

Factors of national identity formation in CIS area: Belarus and Ukraine case study

Jovita Pranevičiūtė-Neliupšienė Supervisor: Prof. Evaldas Nekrašas Date of defence 2009-06-18

Reforms of EU redistributive policies: the role of Enlargement

Darius Trakelis Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Ramūnas Vilpišauskas Date of defence 2009-06-16

The potential of Russia’s geopolitics of information and its spread in Lithuania

Nerijus Maliukevičius Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Lauras Bielinis Date of defence 2008-06-26

Analysis of possible scenarios of common European security and defence policy development

Arūnas Molis Supervisor: Prof. Gediminas Vitkus Date of defence 2008-03-20

What changes due to information technologies? The contribution of electronic government to public policy management in Lithuania

Egidijus Barcevičius Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Ramūnas Vilpišauskas Date of defence 2007-12-20

Constitutive writing and practice of security and identity: the case of Lithuania

Kęstutis Paulauskas Supervisor: Prof. Gediminas Vitkus Date of defence 2007-12-20

Representation of subnational level’s interests in the European Union

Deividas Vijeikis Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Ramūnas Vilpišauskas Date of defence 2007-12-19

The problem of a common defence identity of the European Union

Margarita Šešelgytė Supervisor: Prof. Raimundas Lopata Date of defence 2007-06-07

The Concept of neighbourhood in constructivist perspective of international relations: Russia‘s case

Dovilė Jakniūnaitė Supervisor: Prof. Evaldas Nekrašas Date of defence 2007-04-04

Construction of political regions in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia

Mindaugas Jurkynas Supervisor: Prof. Jonas Čičinskas Date of defence 2006-11-02

Change scenarios of post-Soviet political regimes: Russian and Ukrainian case studies

Živilė Šatūnienė Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Algimantas Jankauskas Date of defence 2006-03-02

The conception of communicational security in security studies

Tomas Janeliūnas Supervisor: Prof. Raimundas Lopata Date of defence 2006-01-08

Political representation and justice: discursive analysis of Lithuanian political imagination

Inga Vinograndaitė Supervisor: Prof. Alvydas Jokubaitis Date of defence 2005-12-08

Analysis of power of negotiations: Lithuania’s WTO accession negotiations

Rolandas Kačinskas Supervisor: Prof. Jonas Čičinskas Date of defence 2005-05-05

The relationship between citizens and the state in post-communist democracy: the analysis of political alienation in Lithuania

Ainė Ramonaitė Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Jūratė Novagrockienė Date of defence 2005-04-28

Parliamentary institutionalization and the lawmaking procedure in Lithuania

Alvidas Lukošaitis Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Jūratė Novagrockienė Date of defence 2004-07-01

Lithuania’s Position in the Grand Strategy of the USA

Vaidotas Urbelis Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Gražina Miniotaitė Date of defence 2004-05-13

Lithuania’s Adjustment to the European Union Cohesion Policies: Institutional and Public Policy Changes

Vitalis Nakrošis Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Algimantas Jankauskas Date of defence 2004-02-26

Political Participation in Postcommunist States: Case of Lithuania

Remigijus Riekašius Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Jūratė Novagrockienė Date of defence 2003-12-18

Accession of the Central and Eastern European states into the European Union: EU enlargement and europeanization

Klaudijus Maniokas Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Gediminas Vitkus Date of defence 2002-12-08

Dynamics of electoral behaviour in Lithuania in 1992-2001

Mindaugas Degutis Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Vladas Gaidys Date of defence 2002-01-31

Regulation of ethnic conflicts: the role of common-origin myths and symbols

Nortautas Statkus Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Antanas Kulakauskas Date of defence 2001-11-13

Regional integration. Cooperation of the Baltic countries in the context of integration into the European Union

Ramūnas Vilpišauskas Supervisor: Prof. Jonas Čičinskas Date of defence 2000-12-21

Irregular Migration to the Baltic Countries: Security Aspect

Erikas Slavėnas Supervisor: Prof. Vygintas Bronius Pšibilskis Date of defence 2000-12-14

Concept of democracy in the Republic of Lithuania (1918-1940)

Saulius Šiliauskas Supervisor: Prof. Petras Setkauskis Date of defence 1999-02-25

Strategies of speech in a political text (based on the examples of the speeches of the Lithuanian President A. Brazauskas)

Lauras Bielinis Supervisor: Prof. Vygintas Bronius Pšibilskis Date of defence 1996-12-26

Local self-governments and their institutions in the Republic of Lithuania in the period of 1918-1940

Gintaras Žilinskas Supervisor: Prof. Vygintas Bronius Pšibilskis Date of defence 1996-05-23

Formation and development of multiparty system of Lithuania

Jūratė Novagrockienė Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Stasys Stačiokas Date of defence 1996-04-28

Concept of the organic state in Lithuania (inter-war and post-war periods)

Algimantas Jankauskas Supervisor: Prof. Bronislovas Genzelis Date of defence 1994-05-08

Ideology of Sweden’s Social Democracy

Arvydas Guogis Supervisor: Prof. Rolandas Pavilionis Date of defence 1993-12-28

Development of international political integration theories

Gediminas Vitkus Supervisor: Prof. Evaldas Nekrašas Date of defence 1993-12-15
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