INSIDE THE US ELECTORAL COLLEGE
The Electoral College in the United States is one of the most unique institutions of American democracy, albeit a perplexing one. Its 538 members, drawing from all 50 states and…
Issues 2021
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Chinese Vaccine Diplomacy
Global crisis, inequalities between north and south, and Beijing’s “window of opportunity” Over 2.5 million people have lost their lives due to the COVID-19 pandemic that triggered the worst economic…
How China Outsmarted Europe
“The United States should warm to the idea that in a world of interdependence there will be no economic decoupling with China,” states the German Transatlanticists Group at The German…
What could Biden’s election victory mean for Europe?
Author: Prof. Tomasz Grzegorz Grosse Joe Biden’s assumption of the US presidency following the outgoing President Donald Trump’s leadership heralds changes in the policy of the largest Western power. This…
The eastern flank of the West: Central Europe in the face of a dynamic world situation
prof. Przemysław Żurawski vel Grajewski Mass protests in Belarus, the smoldering Russo-Ukrainian war, erosion of the power system in Russia, the war between two Eastern Partnership countries – Azerbaijan and…
Central Europe in 2021: The 30th Anniversary of the Visegrad Group. The Year of Opportunities and Challenges
At first glance, the year 2021 may seem very promising for Central European countries, many of which came through the COVID-19 pandemic with fewer losses than most Western European states…
The European Microstates: The Prospect of EU Membership in the Context of Association Agreement Negotiations
Currently, Malta is the smallest EU member state – both in terms of size and population. However, it may soon be replaced by another, even smaller one, since a number…
Putin’s Dictatorship
The brutal suppression of the protests in support of Alexei Navalny and his earlier arrest have symbolically begun a new chapter in the history of Putin’s Russia. Only the use…
The context and meaning of judicial reforms in Poland after 2015
The reforms of the judiciary in Poland after 2015 are usually explained as an attack on the rule of law and the erosion of democracy. Meanwhile, it can be viewed…
JÓZEF PIŁSUDSKI’S EXILE, IMPRISONMENT, MISSIONS AND PEREGRINATIONS ALL OVER THE WORLD (Part I)
The following article chronologically presents the trips abroad taken by Józef Piłsudski. The considerations concern the period of the partitions and the Second Republic of Poland. As a statesman, the…