• As China gained more influence in terms of its economic power, the political ambitions of Beijing have dramatically grown. These tendencies are reminiscent of the continuing centralization of authority that commenced subsequent to the 19th Party Congress in 2017.

    Autor: Dominik Mierzejewski, Przemysław Ciborek
    Opublikowano: 18/05/2023
  • In March 2023 the US  Department of Defense (DoD) presented its budget for the Fiscal Year 2024 (September 2023 – September 2024). As the DoD representatives and the overview of the budget emphasised it is “the most strategy-driven request we’ve ever produced from the Department of Defense.”

    Autor: Tomasz Smura
    Opublikowano: 17/05/2023
  • The battle for Bakhmut continues. In the previous weeks Russian forces have achieved significant gains in and around the city. With the rate of Russian advances and surfacing geolocated footage from within Bakhmut, it is possible to estimate that Russian forces control roughly 90 percent of the city. Ukrainian forces are now mounting a stalwart defence in the western edges of Bakhmut concentrating around Yuvileina street.

    Autor: Sebastian Czub
    Opublikowano: 12/05/2023
  • Despite recent Russian advances Ukrainian forces continue to defend Bakhmut. This week saw the collapse of the Ukrainian defences along the railway line in the western part of the city.

    Autor: Sebastian Czub
    Opublikowano: 05/05/2023
  • The battle for Bakhmut continues. According to the most recent information Russian forces have broken through the Ukrainian defensive lines along the railway.

    Autor: Sebastian Czub
    Opublikowano: 28/04/2023
  • On April 25th, the Chairwoman of the Board of the Casimir Pulaski Foundation, Prof. Katarzyna Pisarska was invited to speak to the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Security and Defence (SEDE) in Brussels.

    Opublikowano: 27/04/2023
  • On Friday, April 21, 2023, Lu Shaye, the Chinese Ambassador to France, made statements during an interview with the French news channel LCI that caused a general outcry in the Western world.

    Autor: Manon Boscher
    Opublikowano: 27/04/2023
  • It is our great pleasure to inform you that the Casimir Pulaski Foundation was co-organising the second BBN’s strategic debate about Perspectives after the NATO Summit in Vilnius.

    Opublikowano: 25/04/2023
  • Main goals of the advocacy and fact-finding mission to Tbilisi included learning about the country’s current status of the accession to the European Union, discussing developments in the internal politics and possible challenges for democracy, security situation in the temporarily occupied Tskhinvali region as well as the cooperation and security environment in the Black Sea region.

    Opublikowano: 24/04/2023
  • Recently, the Wagner Group has been on the lips of everyone interested in global conflicts. Its infamous brutal nature attracted international attention when Putin began engaging militants from a Kremlin-linked private army in the war in Ukraine.

    Autor: Dominika Kulig
    Opublikowano: 24/04/2023
  • Bakhmut has fallen. On May 20, 2023, on the one year anniversary of the fall of Mariupol, Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin declared that Bakhmut had officially been captured in its entirety, which plays very neatly into Russian obsession with symbolism, which is used for propaganda purposes - two “mighty” Ukrainian cities taken on the same date.

    Autor: Sebastian Czub
    Opublikowano: 25/05/2023
  • Despite mounting pressure, South Korea remains unwilling to provide military assistance to Ukraine. This stance is rooted not only in Seoul's longstanding policy of refraining from supplying arms to nations engaged in active conflict, but also in the highly sensitive security situation in the region.

    Autor: Robert Czulda
    Opublikowano: 23/05/2023
  • During the early stages of the war, some were worried that Russia's aggression against Ukraine could lead to a similar attack on Taiwan by China. This argument was not unfounded, as a quick Russian victory could embolden China to launch an attack on Taiwan, while a prolonged conflict in Europe could prevent the United States from deploying more forces to the Indo-Pacific.

    Autor: Robert Czulda
    Opublikowano: 22/05/2023
  • The battle for Bakhmut continues. Ukrainian forces have launched a series of counter offensives in the Bakhmut area.

    Autor: Sebastian Czub
    Opublikowano: 19/05/2023
  • The recent visit of the new Czech President Petr Pavel to Poland in the middle of March has clearly shown that there is a new common understanding and possibly also future appetite to do more together in relations between Czechia and Poland.

    Autor: Pavel Havlicek
    Opublikowano: 19/05/2023
  • Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) needs to become an attentive listener if its countries want to advocate for its interests more effectively. With the war in Ukraine ongoing and the challenge of the country’s reconstruction looming on the horizon, the regional decision-makers have to show more understanding of the challenges faced by their partners in other parts of the continent. They also need to embark on the path to resolve bilateral disputes with the EU institutions and major EU Member States to increase the region’s credibility at international level in the times of changing global security landscape.

    Autor: Miłosz J. Cordes
    Opublikowano: 19/05/2023
  • As China gained more influence in terms of its economic power, the political ambitions of Beijing have dramatically grown. These tendencies are reminiscent of the continuing centralization of authority that commenced subsequent to the 19th Party Congress in 2017.

    Autor: Dominik Mierzejewski, Przemysław Ciborek
    Opublikowano: 18/05/2023
  • In March 2023 the US  Department of Defense (DoD) presented its budget for the Fiscal Year 2024 (September 2023 – September 2024). As the DoD representatives and the overview of the budget emphasised it is “the most strategy-driven request we’ve ever produced from the Department of Defense.”

    Autor: Tomasz Smura
    Opublikowano: 17/05/2023
  • The battle for Bakhmut continues. In the previous weeks Russian forces have achieved significant gains in and around the city. With the rate of Russian advances and surfacing geolocated footage from within Bakhmut, it is possible to estimate that Russian forces control roughly 90 percent of the city. Ukrainian forces are now mounting a stalwart defence in the western edges of Bakhmut concentrating around Yuvileina street.

    Autor: Sebastian Czub
    Opublikowano: 12/05/2023
  • Despite recent Russian advances Ukrainian forces continue to defend Bakhmut. This week saw the collapse of the Ukrainian defences along the railway line in the western part of the city.

    Autor: Sebastian Czub
    Opublikowano: 05/05/2023