Jan Nowak is an MPhil candidate in International Relations at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. He holds a B.A. in International Relations and Russian & East European Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.A. in Russian & Eurasian Studies from the European University at St Petersburg. Prior to his current studies, Jan worked as an adjunct lecturer at Collegium Civitas in Warsaw, Poland. His research interests focus on Russia and Poland in International Relations (IR), Russia-West relations, Russian intellectual history and strategic thought, and poststructuralism in IR.