Dr. Gediminas Vitkus
Professor
Research areas
European studies
International Relations
Additional info
gediminas.vitkus@tspmi.vu.lt
Prof. dr. Gediminas Vitkus is with the IIRPS since 1992. 1993-1995 Deputy director for academic work of the IIRPS. 1995-1998 Director of the European Integration Studies Center. Since 1991 member of the Lithuanian Political Science Association; 2000-2001 – President of the Association. Since 1998 a member of the Center for Civic Initiatives. 2001-2013 Head and Professor of Political Science Department of the Military Academy of Lithuania. Since 2003 editor of the “Lithuanian Annual Strategic Review“. 2011-2015 Member of Committee for Humanities and Social Sciences of the Research Council of Lithuania. Since 2016 member of the Council of the Centre for Quality Assessment in Higher Education.
List of professor’s publications is available at the personal website.
Courses taught
Europos integracija
Europos integracija: teorijos, institucijos ir sprendimų priėmimo procesai
Magistrinis koliokviumas
Europos Sąjungos studijų pagrindai (BUS)
Mažųjų valstybių studijos
Research interests
European integration
The Baltic states: foreign security and defence policies, relations with Russia
International recognition policies
Publications
Česnakas, Giedrius; Statkus, Nortautas; Jakštaitė, Gerda; Urbelis, Vaidotas; Petraitis, Daivis; Andrijauskas, Konstantinas; Šešelgytė, Margarita; Indrašiūtė, Emilė; Karpavičiūtė, Ieva; Murauskaitė, Eglė; Beržiūnas, Valentinas; Pugačiauskas, Virgilijus; Zdanavičius, Liudas; Vitkus, Gediminas; Denisenko, Viktor; Daniliauskas, Jonas; Gajauskaitė, Ieva; Jermalavičius, Tomas; Lawrence, Tony; Merilind, Anna-Liisa; Šlekys, Deividas; Isoda, Vytautas; Bardauskaitė, Danguolė. Lithuania in The Global Context: National Security and Defence Policy Dilemmas / Chief Editor Irmina Matonytė; Senior Editors Giedrius Česnakas and Nortautas Statkus. Vilnius : Generolo Jono Žemaičio Lietuvos karo akademija, 2020. 365. eISBN 9786098277029
Vitkus, Gediminas. Trilemmas of recognition in the Baltic states’ foreign policies // Journal of Baltic studies. Portland : Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies Inc. ISSN 0162-9778. eISSN 1751-7877. 2019, vol. 50, no. 3, p. 307-326. DOI: 10.1080/01629778.2019.1593868.
Vitkus, Gediminas. Small is small: euroscepticism in lithuanian politics // Euroscepticism in the Baltic States: uncovering issues, people and stereotypes / eds.: Aldis Austers, Karlis Bukovskis. Riga : Latvian Institute of International Affairs, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 2017.
Vitkus, Gediminas. Lithuania: a case of confidence in the European project // The European Union in the fog : building bridges between national perspectives on the European Union / edited by Vivien Pertusot. Paris : Institut français des relations internationales, 2016. ISBN 9782365675420. p. 135-142
Vitkus, Gediminas. Towards stronger normative power: the nature of shift in EU foreign policy in the context of the crisis in Ukraine // European Integration Studies. Kaunas : Kaunas University of Technology. ISSN 1822-8402. eISSN 2335-8831. 2015, vol. 9, p. 8-19. DOI: 10.5755/j01.eis.0.9.12792.
Vitkus, Gediminas. "Forest brothers" and the consequences of metropole-periphery distinction elimination in the "Correlates of war" typology // Journal of Baltic studies. Philadelphia : Taylor & Francis Inc. ISSN 0162-9778. 2012, vol. 43, no.4, p. 515-527. DOI: 10.1080/01629778.2012.710388.
