Agnieszka Paczynska is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution and Associate Faculty at the Center for Global Studies. Her research interests include the relationship between economic and political change and conflict, distributive conflicts, post-conflict reconstruction policies, and the relationship between globalization processes and local conflicts. Her book, State, Labor, and the Transition to a Market Economy: Egypt, Poland, Mexico and the Czech Republic (Penn State University Press, 2009) explores the conflicts between organized labor and the state generated by structural adjustment and in particular the privatization of the public sector. Her research on this project was funded by grants from International Research and Exchange Board (IREX), the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), and the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) among others. She is currently working on two books. The first, Rebuilding Society, Downsizing the State: Post-Conflict Economic Reconstruction Policies, examines the relationship between peacebuilding and economic policies after civil wars. The second, Globalizing Grievances: Inclusion and Exclusion in an Integrated World examines examine how changes brought on by globalization processes shape political participation and the perceptions of political inclusion and exclusion. During the 2008-09 academic year she was a Franklin Fellow working in the Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization at the State Department on post-conflict reconstruction planning.
In addition to developing a number of courses on Globalization and Conflict, she is the co-Director of the Globalization Dialogues Project. The project entails an on-going dialogue forum, bringing together intellectuals, activists, and policymakers associated with the pro- and anti- sides of the globalization debate. She has been a participant in the GMU Central Asia project and in the DC-Area Workshop on Contentious Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Agnieszka Paczynska holds a PhD in political science from the University of Virginia. She has been a research fellow in the Sociology Department of the Warsaw School of Economics and at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences of the American University in Cairo, as well as a junior fellow at the Center for the Study of Post-Communist Societies at the University of Maryland, College Park. She has also worked at Search for Common Ground and the Brookings Institution and has served on election observing missions to Ethiopia, Liberia and Afghanistan.
Graduate Courses
“Structural Theories” (CONF 803)
“Qualitative Research Methods,” (CONF 812)
"Introduction to Conflict Analysis and Resolution" (CONF 501)
“Globalization and International Conflict" (CONF 736)
"Societies, Globalization and Conflict" (CONF 737)
"Collective Action, Social Movements and Globalization" (CONF 739)
"Conflict in Development" (CONF 732)
"Doctoral Dissertation Proposal" (CONF 998)
Undergraduate Courses
"Global Conflict Analysis and Resolution” (CONF 340)
“Conflict in Our World” (CONF 101)
Selected Publications
| State, Labor, and the Transition to a Market Economy: Egypt, Poland, Mexico and the Czech Republic Penn State University Press, forthcoming 2009 |
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“Globalization and Globalism,” in The International Studies Compendium Project, Robert A. Denemark, editor. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, forthcoming 2009
“The Discreet Appeal of Authoritarianism: Political Bargains and Stability of Liberal
Authoritarian Regimes in the Middle East” in Maye Kassem and Holger Albrecht,
editors, Political Opposition in the Middle East: Contentious Politics, Authoritarianism, and State-Society Relations. Gainesville: University of Florida Press forthcoming 2009
“Global Financial Crisis and Fragile States,” Global Studies Review, forthcoming 2010
“Development and Counterinsurgency Strategies in Afghanistan and Pakistan,” The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) Special Report, 2009
“The 2009 Elections in Afghanistan,” ICAR Newsletter, Fall 2009
“Union Struggles in Cairo After Ten Years of Economic Liberalization,” in Paul Amar and Diane Singerman, editors. Cairo Hegemonic: Urban Power, Justice, and Social
Control in the New Middle East. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press,
2009
“Turtles, Puppets and Pink Ladies: Transnational Social Justice Movement in a Post-9/11 World,” Center for Global Studies Working Paper, 2008
“Economies in the Middle East,” in Jillian Schwedler, editor, Understanding the
Contemporary Middle East. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2008
“Development and Conflict,” in Sandra I. Cheldelin, Daniel Druckman and Larissa Fast, editors, Conflict: From Analysis To Intervention (second edition). London and New York: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2008
“Globalization,” in Sandra I. Cheldelin, Daniel Druckman and Larissa Fast,
editors, Conflict: From Analysis To Intervention (second edition). London and New
York: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2008
“Blurring the Lines: Security and Economic Development,” Global Studies Review,
forthcoming vol. 3, no. 2, Summer 2007
“Confronting Change: Labor, State, and Privatization,” Review of International Political Economy, forthcoming, vol. 14, no. 2, May 2007
“Transnational NGOs and Local Struggles,” Social Justice: Anthropology, Peace and
Human Rights, vol. 6, no. 1, 2006
“Globalization, Structural Adjustment, and Pressure to Conform: Contesting Labor Law Reform in Egypt,” New Political Science, vol. 28, no. 1, March 2006
“Inequality, Political Participation, and Democratic Deepening in Poland,” East European Politics and Societies, vol. 19, no. 4, November 2005
“Re-Creating the Helsinki Process: Lessons of East European Transition for Middle East Democratization,” The Center for Transatlantic Relations, 2004 (http://transatlantic.sais-jhu.edu/PDF/publications/opinions0328Final.pdf )
“Globalization and Conflict,” in Research Frontiers in Conflict Resolution, Institute for
Conflict Analysis and Resolution Occasional Paper, 2004
