People

Justas Petrauskas

AFFILIATION
Government and Politics Network
Comparative Politics and Government
College
All Souls College
Course
MPhil Comparative Government
supervisor

My research interests include the politics of difference and multi-ethnicity, ethnic conflict, democratic backsliding, and the politics of the European Union.

My thesis examines the long-term effects of institutional solutions designed to manage ethnic differences in plural societies, with a particular focus on their impact on national identity and ethnic salience. More broadly, I am interested in the intersection of comparative politics and political theory, as well as mixed-methods research and the philosophy of social science.

In 2024-25, I served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Political Review. I am also a policy analyst at Lithuania’s Government Strategic Analysis Center, where my research focuses on EU affairs and strategic foresight.

Before the MPhil, I graduated from Oriel College, Oxford with a first-class BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. Outside academia, I have been a research assistant at a public policy consultancy and a trainee at the Lithuanian Permanent Representation to the EU, where my work centred on the Council of the EU’s working groups on EU enlargement and relations with the Western Balkans.