Kosciuszko Chair & Center for Intermarium Studies

Despite the end of the Cold War, post-Soviet Russia continues to view the United States as a strategic foe and a target for espionage. So argues Dr. Marek Chodakiewicz in a recently published article, posted on the Ukrainian-language site http://mediawest.info, dedicated to Intermarium issues.

Since remarks made during Wednesday’s Intermarium round-up on “Hungary Today” were off the record, we wish to present Dr. Marek Jan Chodakiewicz’s analysis of the current situation in the Danubian state, which reflects the spirit of the exchange quite well.

Russia’s feminist punk crew Pussy Riot appeared on our radar screen around December 2011, when parts of urban Russia heaved with anger at the presidential elections appropriated by Vladimir Putin. Pussy Riot combines punk music, performance art, and a radical “anti-establishment” social message. It has fashioned itself to resemble similar ensembles in the West. As…

USAF Brigadier General (ret.) and IWP professor of defense studies, Gen. Walter Jajko, has been interviewed by the Polish Niezależna Gazeta Polska [Independent Polish Gazette] on Moscow’s investigation of the Smolensk Plane Crash, which killed the Polish President and his entire entourage in April 2010.

Shortly after the crash, Russia produced an official report, known as the MAK (Interstate Aviation Committee) Report, declaring pilot error the cause of the crash: a consequence of attempting to land in bad weather, with onboard officials urging the pilot to land in spite of the weather. 

Dr. Marek Jan Chodakiewicz – the holder of IWP’s Kościuszko Chair of Polish Studies – has published an article on the geopolitics in the Intermarium in the Spring 2012 volume of the British political and literary journal, Quarterly Review.

The holder of IWP’s Kościuszko Chair of Polish Studies – Prof. Marek Jan Chodakiewicz – has just completed his month-long (late May – late June) lecture circuit in Poland and Lithuania.

The reborn federalist conception is once again surfacing and gaining traction in the Intermarium – the Central and Eastern European lands between the Black and Baltic Seas. 

Prof. Marek Chodakiewicz has just published a new book in Poland, entitled Między Wisłą a Potomakiem (Between the Vistula and the Potomac).

Dr. Marek Jan Chodakiewicz has recently published an essay on historical memory in East Central Europe. Appearing in a scholarly anthology published in Germany, Dr. Chodakiewicz’s contribution strives to battle false memories while simultaneously recovering and restoring genuine ones.