Dr. Michal Natorski is an assistant professor (tenured) in policy analysis and governance, focusing on International Relations and global governance institutions at UNU-MERIT and Maastricht University. He is also a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe (Natolin Campus).

Prior to coming to the Maastricht University, he was Marie Skłodowska Curie Research Fellow at the University of Liege (2015-2016), Senior Research Fellow at the College of Europe (2012-2014), and Associate Lecturer and Research Fellow in International Relations at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2006-2012) and Barcelona Institute of International Studies (2007-2010). He conducted some of his research projects as Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions Fellow at the Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica (2019), Jose Castillejo Visiting Researcher at the London School of Economic and Political Science (2012), and Visiting Fellow at the Aberystwyth University (2011), the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (2011) and the Freie Universitäit Berlin (2007). He completed his PhD and MSc (Diploma de Estudios Avanzados) in International Relations and European Integration from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and his MA in International Relations from the Institute of International Relations at the University of Warsaw.

Michal’s research interests include the international governance of crises and disruptive phenomena, the EU foreign policy, international practices, renewable energy governance transition, and the global and European development cooperation and diffusion of public policies. Currently, his research concentrates on the development, application, and regulation of Artificial Intelligence in International Organizations (in particular, the EU and UN system) and the emergence and diffusion of innovative governance practices in International Organizations. His most recent research projects focused on the renewable energy transitions in Latin American countries (in collaboration with Inter-American Development Bank) and the evolution of EU foreign policy financial instruments in international cooperation and crisis response (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship).

His work has appeared, among others, in Journal of European Integration, European Journal of International Relations, njp Climate Action, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Journal of European Public Policy, Cooperation and Conflict, East European Politics, and Journal of Politics and Language. Michal also co-edited with Benedetta Voltolini and Colin Hay the book Crisis and Politicisation. The Framing and Re-framing of Europe’s Permanent (Routledge, 2021) and with E. Korosteleva and L. Simao the book EU Policies in the Eastern Neighbourhood. The Practices Perspective(Routledge, 2014).

	Selected publications by Michal Natorski
Articles (journal, professional, popular)
Voltolioni, Benedetta, Michal Natorski & Colin Hay (eds.), 2020, The politicization of permanent crisis in Europe, Journal of European Integration, 42(5)
Natorski, Michal, Benedetta Voltolioni & Colin Hay, 2020, Introduction: The politicization of permanent crisis in Europe, Journal of European Integration, 42(5): 609-624
Natorski, Michal, 2020, United we stand in metaphors: the EU authority and incomplete politicization of the crisis in Ukraine, Journal of European Integration, 42(5): 733-749
Natorski, Michal, 2018, EU Mediation Practices in Ukraine during Revolutions: What Authority as a Peacemaker?, International Negotiation, 23(2): 278-298, DOI: 10.1163/15718069-23021159, More information
Natorski, Michal, 2018, EU Mediation Practices in Ukraineduring Revolutions: What Authority as a Peacemaker?, International Negotiation, 23(2): 278-298
Natorski, Michal & Karolina Pomorska, 2017, Trust and Decision-making in Times of Crisis: The EU's Response to the Events in Ukraine, Journal of Common Market Studies, 55(1): 1-, DOI: 10.1111/jcms.12445, More information
Natorski, Michal & Karolina Pomorska, 2017, Trust and decision-making in times of crisis: the EU’s response to the events in Ukraine, Journal of Common Market Studies, 55(1): 54-70, DOI: 10.1111/jcms.12445, More information
Natorski, Michal, 2016, Epistemic (un)certainty in times of crisis: the role of coherence as a social convention in European Neighbourhood Policy after Arab Spring, European Journal of International Relations, 22(3): 646-670, DOI: 10.1177/1354066115599043, More information
Barbé, Esther, Anna Herranz-Surrallés & Michal Natorski, 2015, Contending metaphors of the European Union as a global actor: Norms and power in the European discourse on multilateralism, Journal of Language and Politics, 14(1): 18-40, DOI: 10.1075/jlp.14.1.02bar, More information
Korosteleva, Elena, Michal Natorski & Licinia Simao, 2013, The Eastern Dimension of the European Neighbourhood Policy: practices, instruments and social structures, East European Politics, 29(3): 358-375, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21599165.2013.807801, More information
Natorski, Michal, 2013, Reforms in the judiciary of Ukraine: domestic practices and the EU’s policy instruments, East European Politics, 29(3): 257-272, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21599165.2013.807805, More information
Barbé, Esther, Oriol Costa, Anna Herranz-Surrallés, Elisabeth Johansson-Nogués, Michal Natorski & Maria A. Sabiote, 2009, Drawing the neighbours closer... to what? Explaining emerging patterns of policy convergence between the EU and its neighbours, Cooperation and Conflict, 44(4): 378-399, DOI: 10.1177/0010836709344423, More information
Barbé, Esther, Oriol Costa, Anna Herranz-Surrallés & Michal Natorski, 2009, Which rules shape EU external governance? Patterns of rule selection in foreign and security policies, Journal of European Public Policy, 16(6): 834-852, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13501760903087845, More information
Natorski, Michal & Anna Herranz-Surrallés, 2008, Securitizing Moves To Nowhere? The Framing of the European Union’s Energy Policy, Journal of Contemporary European Research, 4(2): 70-89, More information
Natorski, Michal, 2007, Explaining Spanish and Polish Approaches to the European Neighbourhood Policy, European Political Economy Review, 7: 63-101
Herranz-Surrallés, Anna & Michal Natorski, 2007, The Impact of German-Russian and Polish-Ukrainian special relations on European Foreign Policy: energy supplies and visas in the EU neighbourhood, Journal of Constitutional Law in Eastern and Central Europe, 14(2): 215-275
Book chapters
Natorski, Michal & Milan van Berlo, 2019, When contestation is the norm: the position of populist parties in the European Parliament toward conflicts in Europe’s neighbourhood, in: Johansson-Nogues, Elisabeth, Barbe, Esther, Vlaskamp, Martijn (eds), European Union Contested. Foreign Policy in a New Global Context, Springer, Cham, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-33238-9
Natorski, Michal, 2017, The EU and crisis in Ukraine: policy continuity in times of disorder?, in: Dimitirs Bouris and Tobias Schumacher, The Revised European Neighbourhood Policy. Continuity and Change in EU Foreign Policy, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke
Natorski, Michal, 2017, Power relations in practice of the EU inter-organizational relations in the neighbourhood, in: Sieglinde Gstöhl and Simon Schunz, Theorizing the European Neighbourhood Policy, Routledge, London and New York
Barbé, Esther, Anna Herranz-Surrallés & Michal Natorski, 2014, Model, Player or Instrument for Global Governance: Metaphors in the Discourse and Practice of EU Foreign Policy, in: Caterina Carta and Jean-Frédéric Morin, Making Sense of Diversity: EU's Foreign Policy through the Lenses of Discourse Analysis, Ashgate, Farnham
Natorski, Michal & Eduard Soler, 2014, Las relaciones de la Unión Europea con los vecinos, in: Esther Barbé, La Unión Europea en las Relaciones Internacionales, Tecnos, Madrid
Natorski, Michal, 2013, Deeds not declarations: Ukraine's convergence with the EU's foreign and security policies until 2010, in: Gergana Noutcheva, Karolina Pomorska and Giselle Bosse, The EU and its neighbours. Values versus security in European foreign policy, Manchester University Press, Manchester
Herranz-Surrallés, Anna & Michal Natorski, 2012, The European energy policy towards Eastern neighbours: rebalancing priorities or changing paradigms?, in: Francesc Morata and Israel Solorio, European Energy Policy: The environmental dimension, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham
Natorski, Michal, 2012, Reconocimiento social de la Unión Europea y la promoción del multilateralismo: el caso del estatus observador en la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas, in: Esther Barbé, Cambio mundial y gobernanza global: la interacción entre la Unión Europea y las instituciones internacionales, Tecnos, Madrid
Herranz-Surrallés, Anna & Michal Natorski, 2011, Energy security in the EU’s relations with eastern neighbours: Driver or brake for a comprehensive external energy policy?, in: Francesc Morata and Israel Solorio, European Energy Policy: The Environment Dimension, IUEE, Bellaterra
Natorski, Michal, 2010, La percepción de la Presidencia española del Consejo de la UE en la prensa extranjera, in: Esther Barbé, Entre la irrelevancia internacional y el aprendizaje institucional: La presidencia española de la UE (2010), IUEE, Bellaterra
Natorski, Michal, 2010, El Partenariado Oriental durante la presidencia española del Consejo de la UE: la gestión eficaz de unos objetivos modesto, in: Esther Barbé, Entre la irrelevancia internacional y el aprendizaje institucional: La presidencia española de la UE (2010), IUEE, Bellaterra
Natorski, Michal, 2010, La UE y los países vecinos en la política exterior y de seguridad: Una declaración de intenciones, in: Esther Barbé, La Unión Europea más allá de sus fronteras ¿Hacia la transformación del Mediterráneo y Europa oriental?, Tecnos, Madrid
Barbé, Esther, Oriol Costa, Anna Herranz-Surrallés & Michal Natorski, 2010, Which rules shape EU's external governance? The patterns of rule selection in foreign and security policies, in: Sandra Lavenex and Frank Schimmelfennig, EU External Governance: Projecting EU Rules beyond Membership, Routledge, London
Natorski, Michal, 2009, Las relaciones polaco-ucranianas durante las transformaciones del sistema europeo en la década de los noventa, in: Carlos Flores Juberías, España y la Europa Oriental: tan lejos, tan cerca (Actas del V Encuentro Español de Estudios sobre la Europa Oriental), Servei de Publicacions de la Universitat de Valènci, Valencia
Natorski, Michal, 2008, National Concerns in the EU neighbourhood: Spanish and Polish Policies on the Southern and Eastern Dimensions, in: Laure Delcour and Elsa Tulmets, Pioneer Europe?: Testing EU Foreign Policy in the Neighbourhood, Nomos, Baden Baden
Natorski, Michal, 2007, El Parlamento Europeo como actor en la Política Europea de Vecindad, in: Esther Barbé and Anna Herranz-Surrallés, El desarrollo de la política exterior europea y el papel del Parlamento Europeo en su promoción y control, Office of the European Parliament, Barcelona
Natorski, Michal, 2005, Polish and Spanish Visions of the European Neighbourhood: Competing or Complementary Interests for the EU Foreign Policy, in: Šarūnas Liekis et al., European Union and Its New Neighbourhood: Different Countries, Common Interests, Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius
Books (monograph or edited volume)
Voltolioni, Benedetta, Michal Natorski & Colin Hay (eds.), 2021, Crisis and Politicisation. The Framing and Re-framing of Europe’s Permanent Crisis, Routledge, Oxon, 184 pp, More information
Korosteleva, Elena, Michal Natorski & Licinia Simao (eds.), 2014, EU Policies in the Eastern Neighbourhood: The practices approach, Routledge, London, 132, More information
Korosteleva, Elena, Michal Natorski & Licinia Simao (eds.), 2013, The Eastern Dimension of the European Neighbourhood Policy: practices, instruments and social structures, Special Issue: East European Politics, Routledge, London, More information
Research reports
Natorski, Michal & Israel Solorio, 2019, Public policies and the diffusion of the wind power technology in LAC countries: A comparison between Brazil, Mexico, and Chile, Research report commissioned by the Inter-American Development Bank (Competitiveness, Technology and Innovation Division)
Conference contributions
Natorski, Michal, 2021, COVID-19 crisis and the governance of complex emergencies: how resilient are the International Organizations?, International Studies Association 61st Annual Convention, 6-9 April 2021, Virtually in Las Vegas
Natorski, Michal, 2019, Follow the multilateral script: International Organizations and the socio-economic reforms after domestic upheavals, International Studies Association 60th Annual Convention, Toronto (Canada)
Natorski, Michal, 2018, The evolution of the financial instruments of EU external assistance: Does learning in the communities of practices lead to policy innovation?, Workshop “Practices of European Transnational Governance: the Role of Security Communities and Communities of Practice” (organized by European University Institute), Florence (Italy)
Natorski, Michal, 2018, The contestation of changes in diplomatic practices: the anatomy of 1973 crisis in transatlantic community, 12th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, Prague (Czech Republic)
Natorski, Michal, 2018, The contestation of the practices of diplomacy during the 1973 transatlantic crisis at the genesis of EU actorness, FLACSO-ISA Joint International Conference, Quito (Ecuador)
Natorski, Michal, 2018, The Practices of Power Relations between the European Union and International Organizations in Ukraine, The European Union in International Affairs VI Conference - Protecting and Projecting Europe (EUIA18) , Brussels (Belgium)
Natorski, Michal, 2017, The constitutive character of diplomatic practices: a journey to the genesis of EU actorness in the 1973 transatlantic crisis, 4th European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS), 7-10 June 2017, Cardiff (United Kingdom)
Natorski, Michal, 2017, EU Mediation Practices in Ukraine during Revolutions: What Authority as a Peacemaker?, 1st UNU-MERIT Internal Conference, 28-29 June 2017, Maastricht (the Netherlands)
Natorski, Michal, 2017, Routinization of volatility: the model of project management in the EU?s response to crises, 11th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, 13-16 September 2017, Barcelona
Natorski, Michal, 2016, Conflicts in the EU neighbourhood and the practices of knowledge production in projects-based approach, UACES 46th Annual Conference, 5-7 September, London (United Kingdom)
Natorski, Michal, 2016, Multi-layered crisis in Ukraine ?opportunities for simulation games, Workshop on ?The Quest for External Legitimacy of EU External Action? 16-18 November 2016, London (United Kingdom)
Briefs
Haastrup, Toni, Julian Bergmann, Richard Whitman, Arne Niemann, Laura Davis, Michal Natorski & Solveig Richter, 2019, Version 2.0: Rebooting the EU's International Mediation Role, Building on research findings produced by the UACES-funded EU as Inter-national Mediator research network, this policy brief reflects on the EU’s experiences in international mediation and provides concrete policy recom-mendations that could feed into a strategic update of the 2009 Concept
Other (editorship, media appearance, keynote, etc.)
Natorski, Michal, 2017, Commission employs double standards in Spain, EUObserver, Opinion, More information