Vytautas Kuokštis

Vytautas Kuokštis is an associate professor at Vilnius University’s Institute of International Relations and Political Science (TSPMI), visiting Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) during the 2025–26 academic year. His research sits at the intersection of international political economy and security, with a focus on exchange rate regimes, labor market institutions, NATO burden-sharing, and the politics of financial technology (fintech).

At CISAC, Kuokštis is designing a survey experiment in Lithuania that examines how citizens respond to changes in NATO allies' defense commitments, and what this means for public preferences on national defense spending.

Kuokštis has published widely in journals including Political Science Research and Methods, European Journal of Political Economy, JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Regulation & Governance, Policy & Politics, European Journal of Law and Economics, and European Security. Before coming to Stanford, Kuokštis held research positions at Harvard University (Fulbright Fellow), Yale University, and Hokkaido University. He received advanced quantitative methods training at Yale and the Essex Summer School, and organized the Baltic Studies Conference at Yale. At Vilnius University, he teaches courses on introductory economics, international political economy, and causal inference.