Proposals for a Ukraine peace deal that accept Russian territorial gains repeat the old pattern of great powers dividing weaker states. It is a pattern set in the partitions of Poland in 1795 and revived …
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Russian drones that flew into Poland last week were almost certainly not there by accident. This was a probe of NATO’s defences, another example of how coercive revisionist powers escalate within the grey-zone spectrum to …
For Poland, Russian aggression is not an abstract or distant possibility; it is an experience embedded in national history. This experience has been shaped by repeated encounters with an eastern neighbour whose imperial ambitions have, …
Browsing social media, I recently came across a map showing all the countries with GDP per capita higher than Poland’s back in 1990 and in 2018. The difference was striking. While 35 years ago there …
The Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 brought the European Union and Poland closer to like-minded states in Asia, including Japan. We realised that despite different histories and cultures we share the same …