Kosciuszko Chair & Center for Intermarium Studies

Nathalie Vogel, Research Fellow, IWP Center for Intermarium Studies, was recently asked to comment on the fact that the EU Commission published a report that said the “reach and influence of Kremlin-backed accounts” had grown further in 2023 although the EU Digital Services Act imposes stricter rules on companies such as Meta and Twitter. This is the report. Ms.…

In July, IWP professor Dr. Marek Jan Chodakiewicz and his wife Monika Jabłońska met with Piotr Duda, leader of Poland’s Solidarity trade union, in Gdańsk. Read more about this meeting

On July 6, IWP professor Dr. Marek Jan Chodakiewicz was awarded the Gold Medal “Sapientia Veritas” – one of the highest awards of the Polish government – during the opening ceremony of the First World Congress of Polish Education and Science Abroad. The Polish Minister of Education and Science, Prof. Przemysław Czarnek, presented the “Sapientia…

Nathalie Vogel, former Kosciuszko Chair Fellow, has returned to The Institute of World Politics as a Research Fellow at the Center for Intermarium Studies.   Her research will focus on the study of state actors’ resources, methods, and tools in detecting and countering malign influence in the Intermarium space.   In this framework, she spoke on…

This article was written by Maria Juczewska (’19), former Associate Director of the Kosciuszko Chair of Polish Studies at IWP. Early on Tuesday, June 6, a huge hydroelectric power plant dam in Nova Kakhovka, 20 miles east of Kherson, was breached. The dam held a strategically important vast water reservoir on the gigantic Dnipro River.…

A review of The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos By Sohrab Ahmari Sohrab Ahmari’s multifarious Unbroken Thread is a letter of advice to his young son, Max. The child’s patron saint is Maximilian Maria Kolbe, who gave his life for a fellow prisoner in Auschwitz. Ahmari writes, “My…

Psychotherapists work together to help Ukrainian refugees deal with trauma. New York City-based psychotherapist Anya Lukianov is a second generation Ukrainian-American with expertise in complex trauma. Her background gives her uncommon insight into how to support refugees from the Ukraine War who’ve come to the United States. Lukianov is project coordinator of the Refugee Support Project…

On March 28, the International Olympic Committee made a proposal to allow Russian athletes to compete in the Paris Olympics under a neutral flag as long as they did not explicitly support the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In view of past strong objections to its proposal, the committee offered to establish a screening panel, which…

A new book by Dr. Marek Jan Chodakiewicz has been released entitled Sprawcy, uczestnicy, i ofiary: Mikrostudium niemieckiego aparatu terroru podczas okupacji, 1939-1944 [Perpetrators, Participants, Victims: A Microstudy of the German Terror Apparatus, 1939-1944] (Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Instytutu Wymiaru Sprawiedliwości, 2022). It is published by the Institute of Justice, a think tank connected to the Ministry of Justice…

IWP is pleased to welcome Mitzi Perdue as a new IWP Fellow at the Center for Intermarium Studies. In October 2022, Ms. Perdue gave a lecture at IWP on “A View of the Ukraine War You Haven’t Heard.” She took a trip to Ukraine with IWP alumnus Tim Field (’21) and wrote about the experience…