The nature and future of communism

Publication Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2009

In this essay, IWP Academic Dean and Kosciuszko Professor of Polish Studies Dr. Marek Jan Chodakiewicz briefly presents some of the crucial intellectual foundations of communism, and proceeds to examine its continuing role in world affairs.  {read more}

Genocide prevention by one condottiere

Publication Date: Friday, May 1, 2009

In this essay, published originally in the January/February issue of the magazine Serviam, Dr. Chodakiewciz notes: "Genocide prevention is about neutralizing regimes and groups fostering mass murder through their ideologies and actions. In the West, most conceptualize genocide prevention in terms of education, lobbying, and humanitarian assistance....  Meanwhile, people are dying and even the best "road map" can't stop it fast enough. But I knew someone who did in Congo almost 50 years ago."  {read more}

Minority rights and imperial reintegration

Publication Date: Friday, August 29, 2008

Georgia and the missile shield

Publication Date: Thursday, August 21, 2008

Poland's latest counterintelligence crisis in context

Publication Date: April 7, 2008

IWP Academic Dean and Professor of History Dr. Marek Jan Chodakiewicz discusses candidly some pertinent and forthright details of Poland's latest counterintelligence crisis: the allegations that six undercover Polish military intelligence officers posted their pictures from a secret mission to Afghanistan on Poland's equivalent of Facebook.com.  Dr. Chodakiewicz brings to the debate surrounding this latest crisis a description of the palimpsest of Poland's intelligence services, the personalities that staff and control them, and the controversy surrounding their decommunization.  {read more}

Charlie Wilson's War reviewed by Dr. Chodakiewicz

Publication Date: Saturday, March 1, 2008

IWP Academic Dean and Professor of History Dr. Marek Chodakiewicz has written a brief and insightful review essay of George Crile's work, Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History (New York: Grove Press, 2003) and the well-known film of the same title.  {read more}

Chodakiewicz analyzes postwar Polish anti-Semitism

Publication Date: Monday, February 18, 2008

In a paper delivered at Columbia University, IWP Academic Dean and Professor of History Marek Chodakiewicz examines aspects of the conflict between traditional and progressive views of American and Polish culture.   Contending that "'Progressives' have focused on Poland as a substitute target for a larger assault on traditional American values," Dr. Chodakiewicz contrasts the views of George Weigel and Jan Tomasz Gross in their discussion of anti-Semitism in Poland after World War II.   {read more}

Learn and Forget

American counterinsurgency patterns

Publication Date: Thursday, January 3, 2008

Throughout its history, the United States of America has been blessed with strength. Hence, practically all of its wars have been victorious. Strength has also dictated that America’s major conflicts have been conventional. Irregular warfare is a sign of weakness. Thus, the American fought as a guerrilla only exceptionally: in particular during the colonial campaigns against the French and the Indians, the War for Independence, and the internecine clash between the South and North. At other times, especially during the Second World War, American irregular (special, asymmetric) operations were nearly completely subordinated to conventional warfare.  {read more}

Cut-and-Paste History

Publication Date: Tuesday, January 1, 2008

In this article Dr. Chodakiewicz provides a short and succinct explanation of Jan Gross's post-modernist methodology. When applied to history, this approach amounts to cutting and pasting of tendentiously selected pieces of evidence which appear to corroborate a conclusion formulated without the necessary research.  {read more}

Siberian Exile in Polish History

Publication Date: Tuesday, January 1, 2008

In his essay, Prof. Chodakiewicz traces the history of Siberian exile in Polish history to the rise of the Muscovite state itself during the fifteenth century, when slave raids into the Polish-Lithuanian state began.  {read more}