Energy and Resilience

The Casimir Pulaski Foundation’s Asia Research Center initiative endeavoured to spearhead the research into joint perspectives between Poland and the Asia-Pacific.

Energy security in the Arctic constitutes a multifaceted phenomenon, encompassing a wide array of concerns, including political, security, socio-economic, technological and identity dimensions. It involves questions of land ownership, the rights of stakeholders, pristine nature, and re-industrialisation delineated through green technologies.

There is a growing amount of information in the public domain concerning the construction of large-scale nuclear reactors and small modular reactors in Poland. However, in addition to nuclear reactors used for electricity generation, research reactors also play an important role. The MARIA research nuclear reactor has been operating for many years at the National Center for Nuclear Research in Otwock, mainly used to produce radioisotopes for medical purposes.

Warsaw Security Forum marked its presence at #MSC2026 through two flagship engagements: a high-level public panel on the Main Stage, contributing directly to the Conference’s core debates on defending Europe and supporting Ukraine, and a closed-door strategic dinner convening senior political and security leaders for candid, off-the-record exchange.

Over the past two decades, the Republic of South Korea (ROK) has undergone a dramatic transformation in defence-industrial design and production. Like most major initiatives historically taken on by the country, it is also a transformation that has taken place in record time.

Despite continuing to frame itself in great-power terms, Russia is gradually losing the capacity to perform the systemic functions that for decades made it an indispensable actor in the international order.

Recent events in relation to Greenland struck a lot of controversy and provoked many reactions. The subject isn’t new as the first time Donald Trump publicly admitted that the US should try to acquire Greenland was 18th August 2019. That day, he confirmed he was considering an attempt to buy Greenland and added that it “would be strategically nice [for the USA to own]”.

For Taiwan the last days of 2025 were characterised by yet another Chinese military drills around the island located 180-kilometers off the coast of mainland China. The drills have been conducted days after the announcement of $11bn U.S. weapons sale to Taiwan, one of the biggest weapon sales in Taiwan’s history.

Over the past two decades, China has consolidated its presence in Latin America by exploiting the prolonged shift of U.S. strategic focus toward the Middle East. The resulting economic and infrastructure footprint in Washington’s immediate neighborhood is now seen as a strategic threat. The U.S. response - a new National Security Strategy and the intervention in Venezuela - reaffirmed the Western Hemisphere as non-negotiable to U.S. security.

The establishment of the so-called Board of Peace, proposed by the President of the United States Donald Trump, should be understood not as an episode linked solely to Gaza, but as a symptom of a deeper transformation of the international order [1]. For the first time since 1945, a key system-shaping actor is not attempting to reform existing security institutions, but is instead deliberately initiating a mechanism that competes with them.

At the close of 2025, as the war in Ukraine enters its fourth year in full scale form, international attention once again turned to Florida. On 28 December 2025, President Volodymyr Zelensky met with President Donald Trump at Mar a Lago.

The Warsaw Security Forum officially opened the 2026 season with the WSF New Year’s Reception, bringing together senior representatives of the Polish government, diplomatic corps, armed forces, and long-standing partners of the Forum.

In 2026, the Casimir Pulaski Foundation structures its advocacy efforts around five clearly defined priority areas. These are implemented through analytical publications, expert seminars, study visits, and the Warsaw Security Forum as an international platform for dialogue.

On 8 January 2026, the administration of Donald Trump announced the initiation of procedures to withdraw the United States from a range of international organisations, conventions, and treaties deemed contrary to U.S. national interests. While formally framed as an administrative and legal review of existing commitments, the decision carries significance far beyond its procedural form.

As public debate in Poland increasingly focuses on the fact that Warsaw has been invited to participate in the G20 summit in 2026, an essential part of the context risks being overlooked.

The Venezuelan moment: intervention without arbitration

Over the past two years, the European strategic debate has accelerated at an nprecedented pace. As the risk of a direct confrontation between Russia and NATO increases, the Baltic States have begun developing a new concept of territorial defense: the Baltic Defence Line, a belt of modern fortifications that represents a paradigm shift in Europe’s defensive posture.

On 5th December 2025, the Bundestag passed a reform on the new military service, pursuing the current trends that support the return of military drafts across Europe

The most glaring symptom of this is the absence of Polish leadership—across both the executive and presidential branches—from the negotiating table regarding Ukraine.