Publications by Marek Jan Chodakiewicz
Hot Mike Gate
Publication Date: Wednesday, March 28, 2012
During the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul, South Korea, President Barrack Obama promised to accommodate, after the US presidential election, the interests of Russia's head of state President Dmitri Medvedev, and, more specifically, his predecessor-cum-successor Vladimir Putin. The latter has vowed to reintegrate the old Soviet Empire. {read more}
Dr. Chodakiewicz responds to Erik Staal's thoughts on containment
Publication Date: Monday, December 12, 2011
A while ago, Erik Staal, a leading light behind The International Chronicles, invited me to comment on his idea of applying the doctrine of containment to the "Muslim problem" in Europe. {read more}
Radek and Berlin
Publication Date: Monday, December 5, 2011
A few days ago in Berlin, Poland's Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski openly expressed his support for Germany's leading role in European integration in exchange for leaving Poland's indigenous traditional identity alone. In other words, Warsaw has officially acquiesced in Berlin's dominant position, but the post-modernist social engineers of Brussels should stay away from the Polish culture. This can also be translated as a prod for the German Federal Republic to step in and save the economic and security structures of the European Union or else the Russian Federation will move into the vacuum. Warsaw's latest moves largely result from the sad consequences of America's absence in Europe. They also reflect the European power reality. {read more}
Review of Soulmates: Resurrecting Eve
Publication Date: Thursday, November 24, 2011
The word culture stems from "cult," or religion. Three Abrahamic faiths, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity, share the story of the creation and origin. The story includes the crucial presence of Eve. If we all agree on Eve and her significance as the mother of humanity then, perhaps, we can start getting along better. {read more}
Carbon Copy Communism
Publication Date: Monday, November 21, 2011
The Politburo and the Central Committee concur that there is room for a mixed economy and reforms are announced at the Communist Party congress. Some market mechanisms and a nod to the private sector should solve the problems of central planning. Minor private enterprise should be permitted in the agriculture, commerce, and service sectors. {read more}
An unprecedented victory in Poland
Publication Date: Tuesday, October 11, 2011
On October 9, 2011, the liberal and effusively Europhoric Civic Platform (PO) trounced the populist and mildly conservative Law and Justice (PiS) 39.18% to 29.98%. The rest of the vote went to the post-Communist Polish Peasant Party (PSL), the transformed Marxist-Leninist Union of the Democratic Left (SLD), and the socialist-libertine Palikot Movement (RP), a PO spin-off group, dubbed so after its founder, Janusz Palikot, virtually a single issue contender who would like to turn Poland into San Francisco. Voter turnout was 48.87%. {read more}
Post-Soviet Domestic and Foreign Challenges
Publication Date: Tuesday, October 4, 2011
"The post-Communists re-branded themselves as social democratic. This was originally intended as a temporary maneuver. In fact, it was a deception meant to keep them in power." {read more}
To Succeed the "Sovereign" Successor
Publication Date: Thursday, September 29, 2011
It is official. The current Russian President has announced that the former Muscovite head of state will soon be elected President once again. In other words, Vladimir Putin has been tapped by Dmitry Medvedev to succeed the successor. A rotation in office will occur. {read more}
Professor Kelley at work: A personal recollection
Publication Date: Thursday, September 22, 2011
I knew Professor Brian Kelley for some time. We talked from time to time at IWP; we swapped stories. Always very kind, unassuming, self-effacing, and welcoming, he told me some about his childhood. After Professor Brian Kelley officially retired, he could finally indulge his historical hobby. That is when our interaction took on a more serious dimension. {read more}
Personal Remembrances of Czeslaw Milosz
Publication Date: Sunday, September 18, 2011
I read with interest the poetic recollection of Miłosz by Professor (Father) Raymond Gawronski (SR, April 2011) and would like to contribute some personal memories that may shed some light on the poet's personal ways. {read more}
