Wojciech Grabowski, Ph.D. with habilitation, is affiliated researcher at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Gdansk. Working across the disciplines of political science and international relations his research examines regional cooperation of authoritarian states of the Middle East, including the changing role and position of Persian Gulf states (Gulf Cooperation Council) in the regional and global order. He was visiting researcher at the Qatar University (2014), King Faisal Foundation in Riyadh (2015), Allameh Tabataba’i University in Tehran (2016) and Jawaharlal Nehru University (2016) or National University of Political Sciences and Public Administration in Bucharest (2018) . He is an author of two monographs Współpraca regionalna państw autorytarnych: stadium przypadku arabskich państw Bliskiego Wschodu (Regional cooperation of authoritarian states: case study of the Arab states of the Middle East) and Fundamentalizm muzułmański na Bliskim Wschodzie (Muslim fundamentalism in the Middle East) and editor of Ewolucja terroryzmu na przełomie XX i XXI w. (Evolution of terrorism at the turn of XX and XXI century) and 2 volumes of Arab and Muslim World in the International Relations