Kosciuszko Chair & Center for Intermarium Studies

On the eve of the fourth anniversary of the Smolensk Plane Crash-which occurred on April 10, 2010 — physicist Dr. Kazimierz Nowaczyk delivered a lecture (part of the Intermarium series) on the current state of our knowledge about this aerial disaster. 

Following Russia’s invasion of the nation of Georgia in August 2008, Dr. Marek Chodakiewicz pointed out that Moscow will increasingly utilize the rhetoric of “minority rights” in its strategy of rebuilding its empire.

Dr. Marek Jan Chodakiewicz was mentioned by Dr. Alejandro Chafuen in his 12 March 2014 Op-Ed in Forbes entitled”Russia in Ukraine: Putting Poland Back At the Front.”

Dr. Marek Chodakiewicz was recently interviewed by Yaser Alarami of the Al Jazeera Network on the ongoing crisis in the Ukraine.

On Friday, 7 March, Dr. Marek Chodakiewicz, professor of history and current holder of the Kościuszko Chair of Polish Studies, delivered a presentation–entitled “Ukraine: Code Orange”–on the current crisis in the Central-Eastern European nation.

The Institute of World Politics was recently mentioned-along with the Kościuszko Chair of Polish Studies, and its current holder, Dr. Marek Jan Chodakiewicz-in Anólan Ponce’s article in the Cuban-American Spanish-language newspaper, the Miami-based El Nuevo Herald.

On January 15, 2014, Paweł P. Styrna, Research Assistant at the Kościuszko Chair in Polish Studies, gave a lecture entitled “Ukraine: Between Scylla and Charybdis.” He reviewed the current situation in Ukraine, which, like many of the Intermarium regions, is caught between creating stronger ties with the European Union and with Russia.

Ukraine-like so many of the other former “captive nations” of the Central and Eastern European Intermarium-faces a choice between Scylla and Charybdis: an increasingly bold and aggressive post-Soviet Russia, and a socialist-liberal EU hostile to the sovereign nation-state. Meanwhile, Obama’s America is indifferent to the region, and visions of a CEE geopolitical bloc are stalled…

On Wednesday, December 4, Tymoteusz Zych discussed “Europe after the Lisbon Treaty: Are EU member states still sovereign?” at an event sponsored by the Kosciuszko Chair of Polish Studies at The Institute of World Politics.

The New York Times has recently published a letter to the editor entitled “Dismissing the ‘Smolensk Religion,'” written by Kosciuszko Chair Research Assistant Pawel Styrna.