Member of the Center for Economic Research ISS. Currently, she is a research fellow at the Academy of International Affairs NRW in Germany, and a visiting research fellow at the United Nations University-Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies in Belgium. She also remains affiliated with the University of St Andrews in the United Kingdom, where she obtained her PhD in International Relations in 2018. Her research focuses on developmental politics and development aid in Central Asia, critical geopolitics in Eurasia, norm diffusion and localisation, and knowledge production. Her current research explores welfare politics in post-socialist contexts, with the focus on Central Asia and Central-Eastern Europe. e-mail: karolinainwork@gmail.com
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS
- Fawn, R., Kluczewska, K. and Korneev, O. eds. 2024. European Union – Central Asian Interactions: Perceptions, Interests and Practices. London: Routledge.
- Kluczewska, K. 2024. ‘Family-centred World Ordering: Polish Civil Society Seeking Remedies to the World in Crisis’, Global Studies Quarterly, online first, doi:1093/isagsq/ksae067
- Lottholz, P. and K. Kluczewska. 2024. ‘Still Engaging, not Avoiding, Contradictions: Conceptualizing Cooperative Research in Practical, Structural and Epistemic Terms’, International Political Sociology, online first, doi:1093/ips/olae033
- Kluczewska, K. and Silvan, K. ‘Post-Soviet Dependence with Benefits? Critical Geopolitics of Belarus’s and Tajikistan’s Strategic Alignment with Russia’, Geopolitics, online first, doi:1080/14650045.2024.2368621
- Kluczewska, K. 2024. ‘Post-Soviet Power Hierarchies in the Making: Postcolonialism in Tajikistan’s Relations with Russia’, Review of International Studies, 50(4), pp. 777-797, doi:1017/S0260210524000287
- Kluczewska, K. 2024. ‘Early Career Pracademics in International Development: Satisfactions and Challenges’, Development in Practice, online first, doi:1080/09614524.2024.2337032
- Kluczewska, K. 2024. ‘Silent De-Sovietization and Urban Renewal in Dushanbe’, Current History, 123(855), pp. 256-261, doi:1525/curh.2024.123.855.256
- Kluczewska, K. 2024. ‘Murivat Beknazarov’s Art as Memory’, New Eastern Europe, 3(61), pp. 150-155, https://neweasterneurope.eu/2024/04/11/murivat-beknazarovs-art-as-memory/
- Kluczewska, K. 2024. ‘Representations of Gender and Labour in Soviet Tajik Mosaics, in Ilolov, M. (ed.) Умре дар масири илм: Маҷмуаи мақолаҳо ба хотираи Мамадвафо Бақоев бахшида мешавад (1931-1972) [A Life Devoted to Science. Collection of Articles Dedicated to the Memory of Mamadvafo Baqoev (1931-1972)], Dushanbe: Donish, pp. 255-268.