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Mieczysław (Mietek) Boduszyński teaches U.S. foreign policy at ��������, as well as courses on the Middle East, Eastern Europe and the Balkans, democracy promotion and democratization. He also organizes and leads Pomona’s first-ever short-term summer traveling seminar "," an immersive learning experience during which students spend one week in Brussels and two weeks in Morocco exploring diplomatic policy and practice around human rights issues.He is an expert on U.S. foreign policy, democratization and democracy promotion, post-conflict stabilization, transitional justice, Eastern Europe and the Balkans, and the Middle East and North Africa. He has also conducted research in and written about Japan and South Korea.

Prior to joining Pomona, Boduszyński was a diplomat with the U.S. Department of State with postings in Albania, Kosovo, Japan, Egypt, Libya and Iraq. During the 2022-2023 academic year, he took a public service leave and worked at the Pentagon for the as a policy advisor on issues related to civilian protection as well as atrocities, war crimes and accountability in Ukraine.

From 2019-2020, Boduszyński served as a volunteer advisor on the Biden/Harris campaign foreign policy team. He was a 2020-2021 serving as a foreign policy advisor in the office of (CA-33). In 2021, Boduszyński was selected as a . In 2021, Boduszyński was selected as a , and in 2024 he joined the .

A frequent op-ed contributor to publications such as the Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs and The Washington Post/Monkey Cage, Boduszyński's first book is about . His second book, , analyzes U.S. policy responses to the Arab Spring. He is also the co-author of a textbook titled , the second edition of which is due to be published in 2024.

Boduszyński was a 2016-2018 Center for Public Diplomacy Research Fellow at the University of Southern California, a 2017-2018 resident fellow at IAU College in Aix-en-Provence, France, and a visiting professor at Sciences Po-Paris School of International Affairs (Spring 2018). He has also been a visiting scholar at the Osaka School of International Public Policy (Summer 2017) and the University of Gothenburg-V-Dem Institute. He has taught at the American University of Cairo, Temple University—Japan Campus, European University in Tirana (Albania), the University of San Diego and KIMEP University in Almaty, Kazakhstan. He is a member of the Pacific Council.

In addition to English, Boduszyński speaks Arabic, Japanese, Serbian-Croatian-Bosnian, Albanian, French, Polish and basic Korean.

Books and Book Chapters

"" in Hall Gardner, ed. Geopolitical Turmoil in the Balkans and Eastern Mediterranean, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.

“Algeria" in Markus Porsche Ludwig and Ying-Yu Chen, eds. LIT Verlag, 2022.

“” SAGE, March 2020. (With Chris Lamont)

, Lynne Rienner Publishers 2019

“Navigating the Narrow Spaces for Transitional Justice in Iraq,” in Arnaud Kurze and Chris Lamont, eds. New Critical Spaces
 in Transitional Justice:
Mapping Ideas, Actors and Change, Pennsylvania State University Press (2019).

“Political Exclusion and Transitional Justice: A Case Study of Libya,” in Chandra Sriram, Transitional Justice in the Middle East and North Africa, Oxford University Press (with Marieke Wierda). 2017

“Western Democratic Leverage and the Arab Spring,” in Christopher K. Lamont et. al., Non-Western Encounters with Democratization: Imagining Democracy after the Arab Spring, Surrey: Ashgate, 127-142 (2015).

Media Appearances

Polsat, , November 2, 2023.

Cap Radio, , February 28, 2022

CBS Los Angeles, , February 24, 2022

Op-Eds/Commentaries

2024

“,” Just Security, 13 March 2024. (with Jasmin Mujanovic).

2022

“,” USC Center on Public Diplomacy Blog, April 22, 2022 (with Agnieszka Lazorczyk).

“,” Los Angeles Times, March 5, 2022. (with Victor Peskin).

2021

The Washington Post’s The Monkey Cage, December 20, 2021. (co-authored with Victor Peskin).

The Diplomat, December 2, 2021. (co-authored with Christopher K. Lamont).

“,”&�Բ�����;Newlines Magazine, 1 June 2021. 

“”&�Բ�����;USC Center on Public Diplomacy Blog, 23 March 2021.

2020

 USC Center on Public Diplomacy Blog. (with Sarah Alaoui).

“” The National Interest, 20 July 2020. (with Gene Park)

“,” Pacific Council Magazine, 13 July 2020. (With Kamil Lungu, IR ’20).

",”&�Բ�����;Middle East Institute, 2 June 2020. (with Chris Lamont).

“.” Foreign Policy, 16 April 2020. (with Victor Peskin)

2019

“” (Interview in The Week, December 31, 2019).

“Will Algeria’s New President Resume Politics as Usual or Bring Genuine Change?” The Globe Post, December 20, 2019. (with Jessica Mecellem)

“.” The Conversation, November 21, 2019.

“?” Foreign Policy. August 6, 2019. (with Jamie Levin).

“.” The National Interest. July 16, 2019. (with Gene Park).

“.” USC Public Diplomacy Blog. July 11, 2019. (with Katarzyna Pisarska).

“.” Washington Post/Monkey Cage. May 3, 2019. (With Chris Lamont).

“.” Foreign Policy, April 24, 2019. (with Chris Lamont).

“” The Globe Post, April 10, 2019.

",” Middle East Institute, March 5, 2019.

"" Washington Post, February 11 (with Victor Peskin).

2018

“” Perspectives on Public Diplomacy, USC Center on Public Diplomacy, December 2018.

“,” The Hill, October 25, 2018. (with Chris Lamont).

“,”&�Բ�����;The Hill, August 13, 2018 (with Chris Lamont).

“,” Washington Post/The Monkey Cage, 20 July 2018 (with Sabina Henneberg).

“,” The Hill, 18 June 2018.

“,” War on the Rocks, 12 May 2018 (with Chris Lamont).

War on the Rocks, 13 April 2018 (with Michael Carpenter).

2017

“” The Hill, 21 December 2017.

“,” USC Center on Public Diplomacy Blog, 14 December 2017.

“” The Hill, 14 December 2017.

“,” Fragile States, 3 December 2017 (with Sabina Henneberg).

“,”&�Բ�����;Foreign Affairs, 27 November 2017 (with Chris Lamont).

“The Challenges of Building a Shared Iraqi Identity,” OpenDemocracy, 5 November 2017 (with Chris Lamont).

“,” USC Center for Public Diplomacy Blog, 1 November 2017 (with Philip Breeden).

“The Anti-Islamist Campaign and Arab Democracy,” OpenDemocracy, 27 October 2017.

 The Hill, 1 August 2017 (with Michael Carpenter).

Foreign Affairs, 20 July 2017 (with Sabina Henneberg).

USC Center on Public Diplomacy Blog, 30 June 2017.

, Washington Post/Monkey Cage, 28 March 2017.

 East Asia Forum, 27 March 2017 (with Tom Le).

 Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy Policy Brief, 28 March 2017 (with Mohamed ‘Arafa).

2016

 Washington Post/Monkey Cage, 28 December 2016.

“,” The Hill, 26 October 2016.

“,” The Guardian, 6 September 2016.

2015

“”&�Բ�����;The Conversation, March 23, 2015.

“?”&�Բ�����;The Conversation, February 25, 2015.

“”&�Բ�����;Los Angeles Times, February 24, 2015. (with Victor Peskin)

“?”&�Բ�����;The Diplomat, 6 February 2015. (with Chris Lamont)

2014

“ Los Angeles Times, November 14, 2014. (with Cameron Munter)

“”&�Բ�����;USC Public Diplomacy Blog, November 9, 2014. (with Caitlin Bergin)

“,”&�Բ�����;Los Angeles Times, September 23, 2014. (with Kristin Fabbe)

“”&�Բ�����;USC Public Diplomacy Blog. (with Monica Chellam)

“Guaranteeing the European Future of Ukraine," Liberte, March 2014.

“”&�Բ�����;The Christian Science Monitor, February 13. (with Kristin Fabbe)

2013

“.”&�Բ�����;Los Angeles Times, December 1, 2013.

“The Road from Benghazi,” published on Project Syndicate, 12 September 2013.

Journal Articles

“,” Brow Journal of World Affairs, February 2024.

“” Journal of Contemporary History, 2019. (with Vjeran Pavlaković).

“” Journal of Democracy, October 2016.

“The Rise and Fall of the ICC in Libya and the Politics of International Surrogate Enforcership,”&�Բ�����;with Victor Peskin, The International Journal of Transitional Justice (February 2016).

“After the Arab Spring: Are Secular Parties the Answer?” Journal of Democracy, October 2015.

“The external dimension of Libya's troubled transition: the international community and ‘democratic knowledge’ transfer,” Journal of North African Studies, Fall/Winter 2015.

“Euroscepticism, the Croatian Way,”&�Բ�����;Sudosteuropa, Volume 62, no. 4, 2014.

With Marieke Wierda, “Accounting for the Past, or Avenging in the Present? Libya’s Political Isolation Law,”&�Բ�����;Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Spring 2014.

With Duncan Pickard, "Libya Starts from Scratch," Journal of Democracy, October 2013.

Talks

Panelist: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, D.C., February 27, 2020.