Security Dilemmas and Challenges in 21st Century Asia

Olga Barbasiewicz, PhD, is an assistant professor at the Institute of Middle and Far East of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. She holds an MA and a PhD in political science as well as an MA in Japanese studies. In her current research, she focuses on memory politics, Japanese-Korean relations and migration studies in wartime East Asia (Japan, Shanghai). Marcin Grabowski, PhD, is an assistant professor at the Institute of Political Science and International Relations of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and the director of the Centre for International Studies and Development at the JU. His research interests focus on the Asia-Pacific Rim, especially institutional arrangements in the region, American and Chinese foreign policy, theories of IR, and International Economics. Ewa Trojnar is an associate professor at the Institute of Middle and Far East of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and the head of the Chair of Japan and the Taiwan Studies Centre. She obtained her PhD and habilitation in political science, and an MA in economics in the field of European studies. She is a researcher and teacher of political science as well as of international relations in the Asia-Pacific region.