is Professor at the University of Warsaw, and an expert on European integration and regional development. He co-authored Poland’s 1998 local government reform and represented the European Conservatives and Reformists and the European Committee of the Regions at the Conference on the Future of Europe. His recent publications include Geoculture: The Relationship Between Geopolitics and Culture (2023), Sovereignty and the Political: A Study of European Integration (2022), Four Dimensions of Integration (2021), and Searching Geo-economics in Europe (2014). He also edited Fuel for Dominance: On the Economic Bases of Geopolitical Supremacy (2020).