Dr. Dovile Jakniunaite is professor at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science of Vilnius University, head of the Institute’s Russia and Central Eastern European Studies Center.. Her main fields of expertise are foreign policy analysis, security studies, international relations theory, border studies, EU Eastern Partnership policy. She is the author of the books Kur prasideda ir baigiasi Rusija: kaimynystÄ— tarptautinÄ—je politikoje [Where Russia Begins and Ends: Neighborhood in International Relations] (2007) and Kaip tapti valstybe: sienos ir erdvÄ—s Gruzijos teritoriniuose konfliktuose [How to Become a State: Spaces and Territories in Georgian Territorial Conflicts] (2017), editor of Ambicingas dešimtmetis: Lietuvos užsienio politika 2004-2014 [An Ambitious Decade: Lithuanian Foreign Policy 2004-2014]. She works at the Institute since 2003, has had fellowships in Cracow, Creighton, Florida, Tbilisi universities, in 2017 received Vilnius University Rector’s award for yearly scientific achivements, currently is contributing to the Horizon 2020 project “EU-STRAT: The EU and Eastern Partnership countries: an inside-out analysis and strategic assessment”.

Foreign policy analysis and identity studies; Security studies; Border studies; International relations theory; Russian identity and foreign policy; Lithuanian foreign policy.