Agnieszka Nitza-Makowska (Ph.D.) is an assistant professor and supervisor of Asian Studies in Collegium Civitas, Warsaw, Poland and a research fellow at Asia Centre, University of Tartu, Estonia. Her Ph.D. thesis entitled Political Conditions of Democracy in India and Pakistan – Comparative Analysis (in Polish), defended at the Polish Academy of Sciences, was based on fieldwork with Pakistani and Indian political elites.

In Collegium Civitas she teaches Aid, Trade and Development, Strategic Games and various classes on Asia and international relations. In the 2018/19 academic year, she taught a seminar on political regimes in South Asia at Humboldt University in Berlin.

Currently, her work focuses on soft power, sustainable connectivity and environmental diplomacy. Her main regional focuses are India, Pakistan and China. She published in the International Journal of Cultural Policy (Routledge) and Journal of Peacebuilding and Development (SAGE).

Agnieszka is a Polish National Science Centre’s SONATA-16 grant holder.
She is a member of International Studies Association.
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