Small States in the Shatter Belt

About the Author

Agnieszka Bógdał-Brzezińska is associate professor in University of Warsaw (Poland), Faculty of Political Sciences and International Studies. She specializes in the history of international relations and the role of political decision-makers in international relations. She has also been researching cyberspace and digital technologies as factors in IR. Her research also focuses on superpowers and geopolitical problems of the international order. She publishes in the area of theory of international relations, especially theoretical approaches: postmodernism and postcolonialism.

Jan A. Wendt is professor at the University of Gdansk (Poland) at the Institute of Socio-Economic Geography and Spatial Management. Visiting professor at universities in Astana, Almaty and Petropavl. Geographer, political scientist and historian. Ph.D. honoris causa from University of Oradea. In the years 2012-2020 member of the Steering Committee of the Political Geography Commission of the International Geography Union. He publishes on the topic political geography, power, tourism and transport, geopolitics, international relations, spatial aspects of the formation and evolution of democratic systems and national security.