Janis GRZYBOWSKI

Bio

Janis Grzybowski is associate professor of International Relations at the Department of Political Science at the ULB. He received his PhD from the Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID) and was a postdoctoral researcher at Helsinki University as well as a visiting fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, the American University in Cairo (AUC), the Peace Research Institute in Frankfurt, and the Centre de recherches internationales (CERI) at Sciences Po in Paris. Before joining the ULB, he was associate professor at the Catholic University of Lille. At the ULB he is a member of the REPI, the OMAM, and the CREG research units.

Domaines d'intérêt

• International Relations, international theory, and international political sociology
• State creation, secession, and recognition
• Political violence and armed conflict
• Politics of international law
   

Présentation des enseignements

• Exercises in International Relations – POLI-D203 (BA2)
• Séminaires en Security Practices and Political Violence – POLI-D520 (MA)
• Final Dissertation – MEMO-D402 (MA)

Publications

Edited volumes and special issues

• 2025 Grzybowski, Janis, Giulia Prelz Oltramonti, and Agatha Verdebout (eds.). Contested States in War and Law. Bristol: Bristol University Press.
• 2023 Hannes Černy and Janis Grzybowski (eds.). Variations on Sovereignty: Contestations and Transformations from around the World. London: Routledge.
• 2023 Çapan, Zeynep Gulsah, and Janis Grzybowski (eds.). “Re-conceptualizing the international”, Cambridge Review of International Studies.

Articles (selected)

• 2024 Grzybowski, Janis. “State creation out of bounds? Pro-Russian separatists, Da’esh, and (liberal) international order-ing”, Global Studies Quarterly, 2(2): 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksae045
• 2024 Grzybowski, Janis, Filipe dos Reis. “After states, before humanity? The meta-politics of the International Criminal Court in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Palestine”, Review of International Studies, 5(2): 354-372. https://doi:10.1017/S026021052300030X
• 2024 Grzybowski, Janis. “Horror Vacui: Da’esh and the inter-territory effect”, Geopolitics 19(3): 897-923. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2023.2208032
• 2023 dos Reis, Filipe, and Janis Grzybowski. “Moving ‘red lines’: the Russian-Ukrainian war and the pragmatic (mis-)use of international law”, Global Constitutionalism, 13(2): 317-339. https://doi:10.1017/S2045381723000175
• 2022 Çapan, Zeynep Gulsah, and Janis Grzybowski. “Re-conceptualizing the international: introduction to the Special Section”, Cambridge Review of International Studies, 37(4): 393-401. https://doi.org/10.1080/09557571.2022.2130665
• 2022 Grzybowski, Janis. “Separatists, state subjectivity, and fundamental ontological (in)security in international relations,” International Relations, 36(3), 504-522. https://doi.org/10.1177/00471178211045619
• 2021 Grzybowski, Janis. “The international order re-enacted or: why the Syrian state did not disappear,” Review of International Studies, 47(5): 672-691. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210521000243
• 2021 dos Reis, Filipe, and Janis Grzybowski. “The matrix reloaded: reconstructing the boundaries between (international) law and politics,” Leiden Journal of International Law, 34 (02): 1-24. https://10.1017/S0922156521000200
• 2019 Grzybowski, Janis. “The paradox of state identification: de facto states, recognition, and the (re-)production of the international,” International Theory 11(03): 241-263. https://doi:10.1017/S1752971919000113.
• 2017 Grzybowski, Janis. “To be or not to be: the ontological predicament of state creation in international law,” European Journal of International Law 28(2): 409-432. https://doi.org/10.1093/ejil/chx031
• 2017 Rech, Walter, and Janis Grzybowski. “Between regional community and global society: Europe in the shadow of Schmitt and Kojève,” Journal of International Political Theory 13(2): 143-161. https://doi.org/10.1177/1755088216638682

Book chapters (selected)

• 2025 Grzybowski, Janis, Giulia Prelz Oltramonti, and Agatha Verdebout. “Introduction: contested states in war and law” in Janis Grzybowski, Giulia Prelz Oltramonti, and Agatha Verdebout (eds.). Contested States in War and Law. Bristol: Bristol University Press, 1-22.
• 2025 Grzybowski, Janis. “Hide and seek: bracketing and projecting the states of Kosovo and Palestine at international courts” in Janis Grzybowski, Giulia Prelz Oltramonti, and Agatha Verdebout (eds.). Contested States in War and Law. Bristol: Bristol University Press, 212-231.
• 2023 Grasten, Maj, and Janis Grzybowski. “’Was the Islamic State a state?’ Claiming, contesting, and creating jihadist statehood,” in Janis Grzybowski and Hannes Černy (eds.). Variations on Sovereignty: Contestations and Transformations from around the World. London: Routledge, 131-150.
• 2023 Grzybowski, Janis, and Hannes Cerny. “Variations on sovereignty: introduction,” in Janis Grzybowski and Hannes Černy (eds.). Variations on Sovereignty: Contestations and Transformations from around the World. London: Routledge, 1-19.
• 2018 Grzybowski, Janis. “Concentric circles: aporias of de-centering state making in time and space,” in Jan Teorell, Jens Bartelson, and Martin Hall (eds.), De-Centering State Making in Time and Space, London: Edward Elgar, 199-217.
• 2015 Grzybowski, Janis, and Martti Koskenniemi. “Statehood and international law: a performative view” in Robert Schuett and Peter Stirk (eds.): The Concept of the State in International Relations. Philosophy, Sovereignty, and Cosmopolitanism, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 23-47.