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.
Autor: Michał Malak
Opublikowano: 04/02/2026
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.
Autor: Patryk Litwiński
Opublikowano: 29/01/2026
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.
Autor: Maciej Dachowski
Opublikowano: 20/01/2026
Negotiating the Same War. Russia’s Continuum, America’s Cycles, and Why Momentum Still Isn’t Change?
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.
Autor: Maciej Dachowski
Opublikowano: 15/01/2026
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.
Autor: Maciej Dachowski
Opublikowano: 08/01/2026
The Venezuelan moment: intervention without arbitration
Autor: Maciej Dachowski
Opublikowano: 05/01/2026
By pushing for a rushed peace in Ukraine, the U.S. administration risks stabilizing the Russian regime and undermining Western credibility, security, and leverage for years to come.
Autor: Miłosz J. Cordes
Opublikowano: 19/05/2025
Fourth and the last NorPolFactor report takes a closer look at the role of Norway and Poland in transatlantic and European security communities.
Autor: Jakub M. Godzimirski, Ole Martin Stormoen, Øyvind Svendsen, Tomasz Obremski, Michał Malak
Opublikowano: 31/01/2025
In highly industrialized CEE countries, there is widespread fear of job loss due to decarbonization and public anxiety over potential economic hardships.
Autor: Paulina Uznańska
Opublikowano: 20/11/2024
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) released a statement on Sunday that it has attacked "Israeli Mossad training centers" in the Iraqi Kurdistan Autonomous Region with precision-guided ballistic missiles. The IRGC said the operation was in response to the Israeli killing (also in a rocket attack) of two Iranian military advisers on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria, on Monday, March 7.
Autor: Jakub Gajda
Opublikowano: 14/03/2022
In early 2019, that is eight years after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi’s regime and five years since the outbreak of the second Libyan civil war, the political situation in Libya aggravated once again. On April 4th, 2019 Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar, Head of the Libyan National Army (LNA) that supports the government in Tobruk, announced an offensive against Tripoli, the capital city of Libya.
Autor: Tomasz Otłowski, Senior Fellow, International Security and Defence Programme, Casimir Pulaski Foundation
Opublikowano: 12/06/2019
