Security and Defence Research Group

Associate Professor and Senior Researcher at RSU. He is the Director of the Centre for Geopolitical Studies and a visiting researcher at Harvard University. He has been a research fellow at the Academy of International Affairs NRW in Bonn, Germany, a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Johns Hopkins University in the US and the Vice-Rector of Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences.

Assistant Professor, Senior Researcher, Director of the Social Sciences doctoral programme and Director of the China Studies Centre at RSU. She is a visiting research fellow at the University of Oxford. Previously, she was a research fellow at the Academy of International Affairs NRW in Bonn, Germany, a visiting Fulbright scholar at Stanford University, USA, and a visiting scholar at Fudan University, China.

Lecturer and researcher at RSU. Previously, she was the head of bachelor and master study programmes at RSU for several years.

Researcher and PhD student at RSU. Deputy Director of the Centre for Geopolitical Studies and a visiting research fellow at the Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden.

Researcher at the Centre for Geopolitical Studies. He has been involved in research and consultancy projects for more than 12 years in various areas related to public administration: education policy, environmental policy and others. He has more than 20 years of experience in journalism, covering domestic politics, economics, as well as Latvian foreign policy.

Associate Professor at Marist College (US), research fellow at the Academy of International Affairs NRW in Bonn, Germany, and senior researcher at the Centre for Geopolitical Studies.

Associate Professor and Acting Senior Researcher at the RSU Faculty of European Studies, as well as Director of the Latvian Institute of International Affairs and co-creator of the Latvian Radio 1 program “Diplomatic Lunch.” Has been a Fulbright visiting scholar at Johns Hopkins University SAIS , and an associate researcher at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). Studied at the University of Trier in Germany, the University of Latvia, the University of Helsinki, and Rīga Stradiņš University.

Associate Professor and Acting Senior Researcher at the Faculty of European Studies of Rīga Stradiņš University, as well as Director of the Latvian Institute of International Affairs and co-creator of the Latvian Radio 1 programme 'Diplomatic Lunch.' Has been a Fulbright visiting scholar at Johns Hopkins University SAIS , and an associate researcher at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). Studied at the University of Trier in Germany, the University of Latvia, the University of Helsinki, and Rīga Stradiņš University.

• Security dilemma
• Security communities
• Interaction of hard and soft power
• Classical and critical geopolitics

• Canada's defence policy and its interaction with Latvia
• Russia’s war in Ukraine
• The military doctrines and armed forces of Russia, Belarus, and the People's Republic of China
• The interaction of Russia's identity with its security perception
• The Three Seas Initiative and national security
• Economic Security of the European Union