Kosciuszko Chair & Center for Intermarium Studies

From May 16-19, IWP professor Marek Chodakiewicz participated in a War Studies Seminar at École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan in France.

In the 2016 presidential election, Polish-Americans were important members of the emerging Republican majority. I organized the Polish-Americans for Trump Advisory Council, one of the most active and effective coalition groups. We reached out nationwide but had a major focus and impact in key swing states: Pennsylvania, Florida, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio and North Carolina.

Born on September 3, 1921 in Lwów, Poland, Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski died on July 21, 2016, in Sarasota, FL. He was a true Renaissance man: a man of letters, an oil industry engineer, an elegant equestrian, an avid reenactor, a gentleman farmer, an academic teacher, an eclectic architect, a multifarious artist, a multitongued linguist, and…

In May 2016, Dr. Chodakiewicz traveled to Europe to promote his two latest books: Thoughts of a Free Pole (2016) about the challenges for the Poles and Polish foreign policy in the geopolitical and cultural context of today and Poland for the Poles: Who were and are Polish nationalists? (2015) on the history of the…

On April 9, 2016, The Institute of World Politics hosted the sixth annual Kosciuszko Chair Spring Symposium, an event sponsored by IWP’s Kosciuszko Chair of Polish Studies.  Six lectures were given as a part of this conference, and summaries of them can be found below. 

Maria Juczewska, a Master’s candidate at The Institute of World Politics, spoke about NATO Centres of Excellence as a potentially sensitive aspect of NATO transformation.

In a recent article published by the American Thinker, Kosciuszko Chair research assistant Maria Juczewska commented on the sensationalist BBC documentary Secret Letters of John Paul II.

Earlier this month, Dr. Marek Chodakiewicz spoke on the CATS Roundtable Radio Show with host John Catsimatidis about the political situation in the Middle East and the Russian foreign policy. He also discussed the situation on the oil market in terms of long-term political aims.

On November 21 2015, Dr. Chodakiewicz has given a lecture entitled Polish Freedom and Democratic Traditions in Anglo-Saxon Perspective for the Polish American Business Club.

On Saturday, November 14th, The Eight Annual Kosciuszko Chair Conference took place. Topics discussed a number of questions related to the past and the contemporary reality of the Intermarium as well as its closer and more distant neighbors.