Poland and Slovakia: Bilateral Relations in a Multilateral Context (2004-2016)

Dr Joanna Dyduch, Assistant Professor at the Department of European Studies at the University of Wroclaw (Poland), is author of numerous academic articles devoted to foreign policy analysis and energy policy. Author, editor and co-editor of several books (e.g. Selected Politics of the European Union. Evolution in the context of the Lisbon Treaty and the Europe 2020 Strategy, ASPRA, Warszawa 2012, European Union Development. Challenges and Strategies, ASPRA, Warszawa 2013, European Union as an Global Actor. Political integration: identity issues and foreign policy, ASPRA, Warszawa 2014). Member of the Executive Committee of the European Association of Israel Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. Visiting scholar in various universities (e.g. SOAS University of London, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel, Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera, Valencia, Spain, Matej Bel University, Banská Bystrica, Slovak Republic). Prof Igor Kosír, Professor at the Department of International Relations and Diplomacy at the Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica, Slovak Republic, Vice Rector 2010-2014. Author of several academic articles devoted to world economy development, international economic integration, and European Union external relations. Author, editor, and co-editor of books (e.g. Foreign Trade Policy of European Union, Ekonóm, Bratislava 2007, International Economic Integration: from Autarky to Global Economic Integration, MBU, Banská Bystrica 2010, European Perspectives of Western Balkans countries, ABB, Prishtina 2015, Alternatives of European Integration Development, Ekonóm, Bratislava 2015). Visiting scholar in various universities (e.g. University of Reims, Champagne-Ardenne, France, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, University of Batumi, Georgia). Dr hab. Radoslaw Kupczyk, Associate Professor at the Department of European Studies at the University of Wroclaw and since 2013 deputy Director of

"The book will be a very interesting and fruitful part of the discussion on bilateral relations between these two EU member states. The book presents a most welcome new assessment and is filling the gap in the existing literature on the economic and political relations between Poland and Slovakia. The study is an example of deep, systematic work about the influence of the European integration on the bilateral relations between two neighbouring EU members." -Prof Adam A. Ambroziak, Warsaw School of Economics