Gabriel A Pierzynski
Biographic Data
| ID | 4433495 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gabriel A Pierzynski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gabriel A |
| FAMILY NAME | Pierzynski |
| SIGNATURE | PIERZYNSKI G A |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science London UK |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-4900-930X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Brexit trajectory
This paper explores the lessons of Brexit for understanding the conditions under which a potential Polish exit from the European Union – commonly referred to as “Polexit” – could occur. We argue that the rise of populist Euroscepticism in the United Kingdom, highlights how political elites mobilised nativist and anti-elitist sentiments to build support for Brexit. The paper develops an original analytical framework to assess the feasibility of an…
A Response to Heikki Patomäki
Heikki Patomäki (2025) sets out three aims in his critique of the patrimonial imperialism piece by Pierzynski and Joseph (2025), published in this journal. The first is that the patrimonial imperialism argument assumes a traditional International Relations (IR) framework of ‘levels of analysis’ which is subsequently critiqued. The second criticism relates to the manner in which critical realism is deployed, specifically its use of the notions of …
Patrimonial Imperialism
Explanations of the causes of the Russo‐Ukrainian war tend to drift towards one of two lines of argument. These are the ‘NATO expansion’ argument, chiefly focusing on the structure of the international system and the possibility of the acceptance of Ukraine into NATO, and the ‘Putin's war’ argument, which attempts to place the bulk of blame for the war on the actions and agency of Putin himself. Both arguments might better be considered as focuse…
Patrimonial Imperialism
Explanations of the causes of the Russo‐Ukrainian war tend to drift towards one of two lines of argument. These are the ‘NATO expansion’ argument, chiefly focusing on the structure of the international system and the possibility of the acceptance of Ukraine into NATO, and the ‘Putin's war’ argument, which attempts to place the bulk of blame for the war on the actions and agency of Putin himself. Both arguments might better be considered as focuse…
A Response to Heikki Patomäki
Heikki Patomäki (2025) sets out three aims in his critique of the patrimonial imperialism piece by Pierzynski and Joseph (2025), published in this journal. The first is that the patrimonial imperialism argument assumes a traditional International Relations (IR) framework of ‘levels of analysis’ which is subsequently critiqued. The second criticism relates to the manner in which critical realism is deployed, specifically its use of the notions of …
Patrimonial Imperialism
Explanations of the causes of the Russo‐Ukrainian war tend to drift towards one of two lines of argument. These are the ‘NATO expansion’ argument, chiefly focusing on the structure of the international system and the possibility of the acceptance of Ukraine into NATO, and the ‘Putin's war’ argument, which attempts to place the bulk of blame for the war on the actions and agency of Putin himself. Both arguments might better be considered as focuse…
The Brexit trajectory
This paper explores the lessons of Brexit for understanding the conditions under which a potential Polish exit from the European Union – commonly referred to as “Polexit” – could occur. We argue that the rise of populist Euroscepticism in the United Kingdom, highlights how political elites mobilised nativist and anti-elitist sentiments to build support for Brexit. The paper develops an original analytical framework to assess the feasibility of an…
International Relations and Foreign Policy (2 works) · Argument (complex analysis (1 work) · Brexit (1 work) · Coalition government (1 work) · Critical Realism in Sociology (1 work) · Criticism (1 work) · Economic Justice (1 work) · Essentialism (1 work) · European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies (1 work) · European integration (1 work)