Kosciuszko Chair & Center for Intermarium Studies

Prof. Marek Chodakiewicz has just published a new book in Poland, co-authored with Jolanta Mysiakowska-Muszyńska and Wojciech J. Muszyński. Polska dla Polaków! Kim byli i są polscy narodowcy [Poland for the Poles! On Polish nationalism] discusses the history and nature of Polish Christian nationalism.

On Thursday, October 8, Dr. Marek Chodakiewicz – the current holder of the Kościuszko Chair of Polish Studies – delivered a lectureentitled “Property Restitution: The Case of Poland After the Nazis and Communists.”

During this year’s annual Gen. Walter Jajko Kosciuszko Chair Military Lecture, Dr. Marek Chodakiewicz discussed the various ways in which the underground anti-communist insurgency in Poland fought against Communist forces in the wake of the Second World War, and in later years against the Nazi Germans and Soviet Communists.

At the end of August, Dr. Marek Jan Chodakiewicz returned from a lecture circuit in Europe, which has become an annual Kościuszko Chair of Polish Studies tradition. 

Polish President Andrzej Duda, who faces a considerable challenge in regards to foreign policy as he takes office, is working to implement policy ideas that were shared at IWP’s Kosciuszko Chair Spring Symposium this past April.

On July 31st, The Institute of World Politics welcomed speaker Pawel Rybicki for a lecture titled “Social Media and the Warsaw Uprising.” Mr. Rybicki described the importance of social media activity in raising awareness of the history and survivors of the Warsaw Uprising.

Zdzisław (Richard) Zakrzewski (1919 – 2013) was a Polish-American optical engineer, philanthropist, banker, a veteran of Poland’s defensive struggle in September 1939 and the Battle of Narvik, and a social and political activist – a true polymath and hero.

On Sunday, May 24, the second round of the presidential elections in Poland saw the victory of Andrzej Duda, the candidate of the largest opposition party (Law and Justice, or “PiS”) in the country, over the liberal post-communist incumbent, Bronisław Komorowski.

On the morning of Thursday, May 7, Dr. Marek Chodakiewicz participated in a panel discussion at a conference on “History’s War: The Political Uses of WWII.”  The event was organized by the “realist” Center on Global Interests and co-sponsored by JHU – SAIS and Georgetown University.

On Saturday, April 25, the Kościuszko Chair of Polish Studies hosted its Fifth Annual Spring Symposium: “Between Russia and NATO: Security Challenges in Central and Eastern Europe.”