Biopolitical Populism in Poland: The Case of PiS
(Populism) Abstract: This paper examines the discourse of PiS party in Poland as a form of biopolitical populism. I view this phenomenon as a specific style of political discourse rather than an…
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Kramer: The Botyan legend, with its inherent assertion that the Soviets saved Krakow, continues to fuel bad relations between Poland and Russia
(NYTimes) As far as many Russians are concerned, Alexei Botyan, a Soviet spy during World War II, was a hero whose daring actions saved the Polish city of Krakow from destruction…
Russia as a Bogeyman in Poland’s 2019 Domestic Political Wars
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Poland will hold general elections on October 13, 2019. Recent exit polls suggest that the ruling right-wing, conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party will maintain its dominant…
Europe in Crisis: “Old,” “New,” or Incomplete?
(PONARS Policy Memo) In this policy memo, we bring together the results of our recently published research to shed some light on how the idea of Europe has been contested in…
Reconsidering NATO expansion: a counterfactual analysis of Russia and the West in the 1990s
(EJIS) Abstract: This article re-examines the history of NATO’s original post-Cold War enlargement to include the Visegrad states of Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic. It uses both published materials and…
President Trump’s Warsaw Speech: A Window into a Trump Doctrine?
Donald Trump has been the president of the United States for half a year. Over this time, observers have been trying to see through the cloud of his often controversial…
Are China and Russia Teaming Up in Southern Europe?
(PONARS Policy Memo) Southern Europe has been a new area of focus for the Sino-Russian partnership in recent years. Cultural and religious ties with Orthodox majority states have long given…
Both In-Between and Out: National Sovereignty and Cross-Border Governmentality in Euro 2012 in Lviv
(European Neighbourhood Policy) (Co-author: A. Makarychev) The chapter addresses a collision of different policies and strategies initiated, pursued and implemented by EU member states towards Ukraine as a co-host of…
German-Polish-Russian Isometrics
EU-Russia relations, as many in Europe reckon, suffer from a lack of proper communication. This may sound paradoxical in an era of social media connectivity and cross-national mobility, with NGOs…
“Как поляки уважают Армию Крайову, так и мы должны уважать УПА”
(inpress.ua) В четверг, 20 июня, Сенат Польши принял заявление по поводу 70-летия Волынской трагедии, в котором трагические события 1943-го года названы «этнической чисткой с признаками геноцида». В заявлении Сената отмечается, что 9 февраля 1943 года нападением отрядов…