We are pleased to announce that the Professor Waldemar Michowicz Best Doctoral Dissertation in Political Science Award went to Dr Arkadiusz Nyzio, assistant professor at the Department of National Security, Institute of Political Sciences and International Relations. This prestigious award was granted for the doctoral thesis Transformacja polityki bezpieczeństwa wewnętrznego Polski w  latach 1989–1993 [The transformation of Poland’s internal security policy in 1989-1993] prepared under the supervision of Professor Artur Gruszczak and defended in March 2017.