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#Piotr Kłodkowski - Instytut Porównawczych Studiów Cywilizacji

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Prof. dr hab. Piotr Kłodkowski

Prof. dr hab. Piotr Kłodkowski

e-mail: piotr.klodkowski@uj.edu.pl
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9273-8560

Full professor at the Institute of Comparative Studies of Civilisations, Jagiellonian University. From 2009 to 2014, he served as the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to India, with accreditation to Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives. He was a visiting professor at the University of Rochester (New York) in 2019, 2021, 2023, and 2025. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the journal "Muslim Perspectives," published by the Muslim Institute based in Islamabad.

Professor Kłodkowski is a graduate of the Jagiellonian University and of the Kraków University of Economics (MBA). He also studied at the National Institute of Modern Languages in Islamabad (Pakistan), University College Cork (Tempus Scholarship, Ireland), and the University of Cambridge (postdoctoral Wasilewski Scholarship).

Recipient of the following awards: the Beata Pawlak Prize (Stefan Batory Foundation) in 2004 for the series of literary reportages, “Doskonały smak Orientu” ("The Exquisite Taste of the Orient"); the Znak Hestia (Fr. Józef Tischner) Prize in 2006 for the book “O pęknięciu wewnątrz cywilizacji” (“On the Intra Civilizational Rift”); and the Jan Długosz Prize in 2025 for the book “Azjatycka Wielka Gra” (“The Asian Great Game: India and South Asia in the Struggle for Regional and Global Dominance in the 20th and 21st Centuries”).

Academic interests

  • culture, Religions, and Politics in South Asia;
  • contemporary Islam in Asia and the Middle East;
  • foreign Policy of the United States and the European Union in Asia and the Middle East
  • political Myths in Asia, Europe, and the United States;
  • the Application of Social Psychology in Cross-cultural Relations.

Selected publications

  • 2025, (Micro)Identities in flux: the interplay of polarization and fragmentation in Polish and European politics, (współautorki: M. Kossowska, A. Siewierska) “Social Inclusion”, t. 13, Article ID: 9996 
  • 2024, Azjatycka Wielka Gra. Indie i Azja Południowa w sporze o regionalną i globalną dominację w XX i XXI wieku, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Kraków, s. 972.
  • 2023, O sojuszu amerykańsko-indyjskim w XXI wieku. Lekcja z historii wojny indyjsko-chińskiej 1962 roku, „Studia Polityczne”, t. 51, nr 4, s. 113-136.
  • 2023, Internet-based micro-identities as a driver of societal disintegration (współautorki: Małgorzata Kossowska, Anna Siewierska-Chmaj i in.), “Humanities and Social Sciences Communications” (portfolio “Nature”), Article number: 955.
  • 2022, Pandemic and cultural differences : examples from Islam and Hinduism (współautorka: Anna Siewierska-Chmaj), [w:]  Małgorzata Kossowska, Natalia Letki, Tomasz Zaleśkiewicz, Szymon Wichary, Human behaviour in pandemics : social and psychological determinants in a global health crisis, Routledge, London, s. 161 – 176.
  • 2020, An India-NATO alliance: lessons from the Sino-Indian War of 1962, “NATO And The Asia-Pacific”, (NATO Association of Canada, Toronto) 2020, s. 42-46.
  • 2019, Socjalizm, świeckość, wolny rynek i hindutwa : indyjska narracja o państwie i jego ideologii w perspektywie historycznej, „Sprawy Międzynarodowe”, t.72, nr 3, s. 91-113.
  • 2018, Imperium boga Hanumana: Indie w trzech odsłonach, Znak, Kraków, s. 445.
  • 2018, Is democracy a universal phenomenon?: Allama Muhammad Iqbal’s contribution to a contemporary debate on democracy, “Muslim Perspectives” (Muslim Institute, Islamabad), t. 3, nr 1, s. 1-17.
  • 2017, Liberalna demokracja : zwieńczenie ideologicznej ewolucji czy projekt uniwersalnej utopii? : "Koniec historii i ostatni człowiek" Francisa Fukuyamy na początku XXI wieku, [wstęp do:] Francis Fukuyama, Koniec historii i ostatni człowiek, „Znak”, Kraków, s. 7-24.

Research projects

  • “Place of V4 Countries in Europe and Japan," 2017–2019, Visegrad Grants under University Studies Grants (+ V4EaP) 11/2016, Project ID 61610040. Lead applicant: Kobe University (Japan). Role: Coordinator of the Polish team. (ivf_approved_VUSG_2016_12.xlsx; Projects — Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilisations — Faculty of Philosophy)
  • “Comparing Responses to Global Transformations – Regime Changes in the V4 and Japan," 2019–2021, Visegrad Grants, Project ID 21920058. Lead applicant: National University Corporation, Kobe University (Japan). Role: Coordinator of the Polish team. (IVF_approved_grants_2019_6.docx) 
  • Awarded a project grant under "Horizon 2020" in 2021: DigiPatch. Moving from Networked to Patchworked Society, the main objective of which is to understand how the use of digital media, interacting with the psychology of network users (motivations, cognitive biases, and processes of social influence) and the cultural and religious context (norms and values), fosters the creation of virtual identities and examines the extent to which these processes pose a risk to social cohesion in both digital and analog environments, by reducing society's ability to create shared values, norms, principles, and goals. Project DigiPatch is supported by NCN Poland (2021/03/Y/ HS6/00251), FORTE Sweden, DLR-PT Germany, AEI Spain, UKRI Economy and Social Research Council and UKRI Art and Humanities Research Council UK, under CHANSE ERA- -NET Co-fund programme, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, under Grant Agreement no 101004509.

Other achievements

  • 2014-2024 Collaboration with the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM, Warsaw). Participation in the debate associated with the promotion of the book "Asian Great Game": Asian Great Game - Consequences of Regional Rivalry for the USA and Europe, PISM, Warsaw, 06.11.2024. Participation in the debate "The Importance of India for Poland's Interests from a Geostrategic Perspective," PISM, Warsaw, 16.05.2024. Preparation of materials for a publication in English on Polish-Indian bilateral relations. The entire work was published by PISM and the Indian counterpart, the Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi, in 2014.
  • 2017-2020 Participation in the EU project "The Place of V-4 Countries in Europe and Japan" co-financed by the University of Kobe, which concerns Central Europe, especially the migration policy of the Visegrad Group. In October 2018, at the invitation of the University of Kobe, a presentation in Brussels titled "Security Issues in South Asia" as part of the joint EU-Japan project, with Vrije Universiteit Brussels as the European partner.
  • 2015-2017 Preparation and delivery of lectures and workshops for high-ranking officers of NATO member states and the Partnership for Peace program, as well as members of the diplomatic corps engaged in defense topics within the North Atlantic Alliance. The entire program was organized by the NATO Defense College (NDC) in Rome, the primary academic institution of the North Atlantic Alliance, founded by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. The lectures and workshops focused on security threats in South Asia, India-China relations, and the potential for cooperation between the Republic of India and the North Atlantic Alliance.

Hobbies

  • Culinary geography (including active participation in preparing dishes from selected Asian countries). Also specializes in his own interpretation of chilli con carne. A connoisseur of selected coffee varieties. 
  • Table tennis (team vice champion of Ireland; university competitions “U.L. Intervarsities” in 1994). Still active in sport; regularly plays with his son, Wojciech.
  • Loves dogs and cats. Together with his wife, Jolanta, he cares for their dog, Bobby (known as Bobek), born in India, and a Polish cat, “Kota”. Additionally, on weekends he looks after his daughter Joanna’s cats, Ziuta and Franek.