Tomas Janeliūnas

Dr Tomas Janeliūnas is a full-time professor at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science (IIRPS) at Vilnius University and the research director at the Geopolitical and Security Studies Centre (GSSC) in Vilnius. He has been lecturing at the IIRPS since 2003 on subjects including strategic studies, national security, and foreign policy of Lithuania, as well as the foreign policy of the great powers. From 2013 to 2018, he served as the head of the Department of International Relations at the IIRPS. From 2009 to 2020, he served as editor-in-chief of the main Lithuanian academic quarterly in political science, Politologija. From 2007 to 2014, he served as the editor-in-chief of Lithuanian Foreign Policy Review. His latest book, Foreign Policy Analysis of a Baltic State: Lithuania and ‘Grybauskaitė Doctrine’ (Routledge, 2021), focuses on the conduct of Lithuanian foreign policy during the two consecutive terms of President Dalia Grybauskaitė (2009–19).