Dr. Dovilė Jakniūnaitė is professor at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science of Vilnius University, head of the Institute’s International Relations Department. Her main fields of expertise are foreign policy analysis, security studies, international relations theory, border studies, Russian foreign policy, conflicts in Georgia and Ukraine, EU Eastern Partnership policy.
She is the author of the books Kur prasideda ir baigiasi Rusija: kaimynystė tarptautinėje politikoje [Where Russia Begins and Ends: Neighborhood in International Relations] (2007) and Kaip tapti valstybe: sienos ir erdvės 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] (2015).
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 achievements. Since 2019 she is head of the Institute’s International Relations department.
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