Kosciuszko Chair & Center for Intermarium Studies

Dr. Marek Chodakiewicz, the current holder of the Kościuszko Chair of Polish Studies, has returned from his Europeanlecture circuit during which he promoted his new book on post-communism in Poland, Transformacja czy niepodległość?[Transformation or Independence?].

As Dr. Marek Chodakiewicz continues his European lecture circuit and promoting his new book on post-communism, we are pleased to share the videos of some of his presentations below. 

Dr. Marek Jan Chodakiewicz–who is currently on a lecture circuit promoting his new book in Poland–was interviewed on 3 July 2014 by the Polish web portal, Polonia Christiana(www.pch24.pl).

Marek Chodakiewicz’s new book entitled Trasnformacja czy niepodległość? was released at an event in Warsaw, Poland on June 12.

Dr. Marek Jan Chodakiewicz-the holder of IWP’s Kościuszko Chair of Polish Studies-has just published a new book in his native Poland. Entitled Trasnformacja czy niepodległość? [Transformation or Independence?] (Gdańsk: Patria Media, 2014), the work assesses the past quarter-century of post-communism in Poland (1989 – 2014).

On April 24, 2014, Aram Hamparian, Executive Director of the Armenian National Committee of America; Marek Chodakiewicz, the Kosciuszko Chair of Polish Studies at The Institute of World Politics, and Vilen Khlgatyan Vice-Chairman of the Political Developments Research Center, discussed “Between Extermination and Persecution: Christians in the Post-Ottoman Zone” at The Institute of World Politics. 

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.