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Dr. Laurynas Jonavičius

Associate professor, Researcher, Lecturer
Research groups
Research group on Belarus
Research areas
International relations

Has completed bachelor’s and master’s degree programs in political science and international relations and diplomacy at VU IIRPS.

Since 2005 studied doctoral studies at VU IIRPS; defended his doctoral thesis in February 2010.

He worked as an advisor to the President of the Republic of Lithuania in the foreign policy group. Has been teaching at the Institute since 2005.

Courses taught

Russian and CIS Studies

International politics

Russian Politics and Economy in the Postmodern World

Master's Colloquium

International Politics (BUS)

Belarusian and Ukrainian Studies

Research interests

Integration and disintegration processes in post-Soviet space

Constructivist analysis of international relations

Publications

Vilpišauskas, R.; Jakniūnaitė, D.; Jaroszewicz, M.; Jonavičius, L. - Susceptibility of Ukrainian and Belarussian domestic actors to external actors’ approaches: puzzling patterns of transition, East European politics https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21599165.2020.1745190 – 2020

Delcour. L., Dragneva, R., Jonavičius, L. and Wolczuk, K. - Russian Interests, Strategies, and Instruments in the Common Neighbourhood EU-STRAT-Working-Paper-No.-16.pdf – 2019

Frear, M., Jonavičius, L., Maniokas, K. and Tabarta. I. - Report on Complementary and Alternative Modes of Engagement with the Eastern Partnership Countries https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/handle/1887/63770/EU-STRAT-Report-No5.pdf?sequence=1 – 2018

Dimitrova, A., Jonavičius L., Langbein, J., Maniokas, K., Mazepus, H., Munteanu, I., Shea, E. and Vilpišauskas, R. - Scenario analysis of EU engagement promoting opening or closure in the Eastern Partnership countries https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/documents/downloadPublic? documentIds=080166e5c04186bf&appId=PPGMS – 2018

Dragneva, R.; Delcour, L.; Jonavičius, L. - Assessing legal and political compatibility between the European Union engagement strategies and membership of the Eurasian Economic Union http://eu-strat.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/EU-STRAT-Working-Paper-No.7.pdf – 2017

Jakniūnaitė, D.; Jonavičius, L.; Lehmkuhl, D.; Šešelgytė, M.; Vilpišauskas, R. - Working paper introducing the analytical framework for comparing approaches and strategies of the selected external actors https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/documents/downloadPublic? documentIds=080166e5b10571b1&appId=PPGMS – 2017

Jonavičius, Laurynas - Foreign Policy of a Limted Access Order: the Case of Russia, in Ivanauskas, V. et al. Scenarious of Russia‘s Development: Implications for the Lithuanian and Regional Security, Vilnius: Aukso Žuvys, pp. 54-86, ISBN 978-609-8120-24-0 2016

Jonavičius, Laurynas - Struktūros ir jų persidengimas: teorija ir praktika, Politologija, 54, pp. 59-89 https://etalpykla.lituanistikadb.lt/object/LT-LDB-0001:J.04~2009~1367168870832/J.04~2009~1367168870832.pdf – 2015