F5: Security Perceptions at the Border Triangle(s) between Poland and Lithuania (Research and Videographic Project)

Dr. Nadja Douglas (ZOiS)
Polish border at Szlamy, 2023 (c) Nadja Douglas

Description

This research project engages with security perceptions in the border regions between Poland, Lithuania, Belarus and the Russian exclave, Kaliningrad oblast (around the so-called Suwalki corridor). Its aim is to examine discoursive ideas and perceptions of in:security in the local context. With the help of audiovisual methods of documentation expert interviews have been conducted in Vilnius and Warsaw as well as observations on the ground in the Polish border region of Podlachia. The analysis/evaluation of videographic footage is supplemented by relevant primary sources.

On the basis of critical security studies and theories of vernacular security the project is meant to contrast perceptions of in:security on the local level with internationally prevailing security discourses and structures.

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Dr. Nadja Douglas

Nadja Douglas is a political scientist and a researcher at ZOiS.

Nadja Douglas studied Political Science, Philosiophy and History at the University of Bonn and the University of Washington in Seattle. She holds a master’s degree in international relations from Sciences Po Paris and a PhD from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin  In the context of her doctoral thesis (published with Palgrave Macmillan in 2017), she spent a considerable amount of time in various parts of Russia. Prior to taking up her current position, she worked as a Liaison Officer for the German OSCE Chairmanship 2016 at the OSCE Mission to Moldova and as an advisor on security and defence policy at the German Bundestag. She also held positions at the International Secretariat of the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE and the Development and Peace Foundation in Bonn. From 2015 to 2016, she was a member of the editorial team of Russland Analysen.

CV Nadja Douglas

Dr. Nadja Douglas

Nadja Douglas is a political scientist and a researcher at ZOiS.

Nadja Douglas studied Political Science, Philosiophy and History at the University of Bonn and the University of Washington in Seattle. She holds a master’s degree in international relations from Sciences Po Paris and a PhD from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin  In the context of her doctoral thesis (published with Palgrave Macmillan in 2017), she spent a considerable amount of time in various parts of Russia. Prior to taking up her current position, she worked as a Liaison Officer for the German OSCE Chairmanship 2016 at the OSCE Mission to Moldova and as an advisor on security and defence policy at the German Bundestag. She also held positions at the International Secretariat of the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE and the Development and Peace Foundation in Bonn. From 2015 to 2016, she was a member of the editorial team of Russland Analysen.

CV Nadja Douglas

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