Aleksander Kazak

Aleksander Kazak serves as a Researcher at the Department of Public Policy and Administration within the Institute of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Gdańsk. Holding a Master of Arts degree, he maintains an active academic profile focused on Eastern European geopolitical dynamics, with institutional affiliation explicitly tied to his research output.

His research centers on Belarusian Politics and Russian Foreign Policy, examining critical intersections with Geopolitics, Military Strategy, and Information Warfare. Kazak's work dissects authoritarian resilience in Belarus, particularly analyzing the 2020 protest suppression's consequences, Lukashenko regime tactics, and evolving military dependencies on Russia. His scholarship increasingly addresses Hybrid Threats and Eastern European Security challenges emerging from the Ukraine conflict.

Publication trends from 2020-2025 reveal escalating focus on military applications, with UAV warfare analysis and Belarusian security vulnerabilities dominating recent work. His research trajectory shows clear progression from protest dynamics (2020-2022) to contemporary military-security dimensions (2023-2025), consistently highlighting Belarus's role as a Russian proxy state. Key thematic threads include Russian information operations, EU policy dilemmas, and emerging technologies like deepfakes in geopolitical contexts.