Agnieszka Paczynska is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution and Associate Faculty at the Center for Global Studies. Her research interests include the relationship between economic and political change and conflict, distributive conflicts, and the relationship between globalization processes and local conflicts. Most of her research has focused on the Middle East and Eastern and Central Europe. Her book, Confronting Change: Labor, State, and The Transition to a Market Economy, (forthcoming Penn State University Press, 2008) explores the conflicts between organized labor and the state generated by structural adjustment and in particular the privatization of the public sector. It examines how these dynamics unfolded in Egypt, Poland, Mexico and the Czech Republic. Her research on this project was funded by grants from International Research and Exchange Board (IREX), the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), and the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) among others. She is currently working on her second book, Rebuilding Society, Downsizing the State: Post-Conflict Economic Reconstruction Policies, which examines the relationship between peacebuilding and economic policies after civil wars.
In addition to developing a number of courses on Globalization and Conflict, she is the co-Director of the Globalization Dialogues Project. The project entails an on-going dialogue forum, bringing together intellectuals, activists, and policymakers associated with the pro- and anti- sides of the globalization debate. She is also a participant in the GMU Central Asia project in the DC-Area Workshop on Contentious Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Agnieszka Paczynska holds a PhD in political science from the University of Virginia. She has been a research fellow in the Sociology Department of the Warsaw School of Economics and at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences of the American University in Cairo, as well as a junior fellow at the Center for the Study of Post-Communist Societies at the University of Maryland, College Park. She has also worked at Search for Common Ground and the Brookings Institution and has served on election observing missions to Ethiopia and Liberia.
Graduate Courses
"Introduction to Conflict Analysis and Resolution" (CONF 501)
“Globalization and International Conflict" (CONF 736)
"Societies, Globalization and Conflict" (CONF 737)
"Collective Action, Social Movements and Globalization" (CONF 739)
"Conflict in Development" (CONF 732)
"Doctoral Dissertation Proposal" (CONF 998)
Undergraduate Courses
"Global Conflict Analysis and Resolution” (CONF 340)
Selected Publications
Confronting Change: Labor, State and the Transition to a Market Economy, forthcoming
Penn State University Press, 2008
“Development and Conflict,” in Sandra I. Cheldelin, Daniel Druckman and Larissa Fast,
editors, Conflict: From Analysis To Intervention (second edition). London and New
York: Continuum International Publishing Group, forthcoming 2007
“Conflict and Globalization,” in Sandra I. Cheldelin, Daniel Druckman and Larissa Fast,
editors, Conflict: From Analysis To Intervention (second edition). London and New
York: Continuum International Publishing Group, forthcoming 2007
“Union Struggles in Cairo After Ten Years of Economic Liberalization,” in Paul Amar and
Diane Singerman, editors. Cairo Hegemonic: Urban Power, Justice, and Social
Control in the New Middle East. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press,
forthcoming 2007
“Blurring the Lines: Security and Economic Development,” Global Studies Review,
forthcoming vol. 3, no. 2, Summer 2007
“Confronting Change: Labor, State, and Privatization,” Review of International Political
Economy, forthcoming, vol. 14, no. 2, May 2007
“Transnational NGOs and Local Struggles,” Social Justice: Anthropology, Peace and
Human Rights, vol. 6, no. 1, 2006
“Globalization, Structural Adjustment, and Pressure to Conform: Contesting Labor Law
Reform in Egypt,” New Political Science, vol. 28, no. 1, March 2006
“Inequality, Political Participation, and Democratic Deepening in Poland,” East European Politics and Societies, vol. 19, no. 4, November 2005
“Re-Creating the Helsinki Process: Lessons of East European Transition for Middle East Democratization,” The Center for Transatlantic Relations, 2004 (http://transatlantic.sais-jhu.edu/PDF/publications/opinions0328Final.pdf )
“Globalization and Conflict,” in Research Frontiers in Conflict Resolution, Institute for
Conflict Analysis and Resolution Occasional Paper, 2004
“Globalization and Pressure to Conform: Contesting Labor Law Reform in Egypt,”
Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution Working Paper, February 2004
Globalization Dialogues Project - http://cgs.gmu.edu/globalization_dialogues.html
