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The Inept Transformation of the Polish Energy Industry
The Polish government is caught between its own illusions about the richness of Poland’s coal reserves and pressure from the European Union to move away from coal as quickly as possible.
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Adam Daniel Rotfeld: Moscow Perceives Fear as a Political Instrument
When Vladimir Putin decided to annex Crimea, the question in Poland and the West was, “Where will Russia stop? What will be its next territorial demands?” Both then and today my answer is the same:…
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Illiberal Democracy, Season Three
In “Democracy Against Liberalism” the author argues that there are three important political spectra: democracy versus authoritarianism, liberalism versus absolutism and technocracy versus populism.…
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Russia Veers Green: from Petro-state to Eco-power
Russia has resisted formulating its own green agenda, putting itself in a position of playing catch-up with the West. The country needs to acknowledge and incorporate the world’s inevitable energy…
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The End of Globalization as We Know It
Nobody knows what globalization will look like in the future, but globalization as we have understood it so far is over. Decisions made today in monetary, fiscal, energy and health sectors will…
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William Kristol: On Foreign Affairs, Biden is Better than Obama and Trump
It’s such a cliche that Americans don’t know anything about the world and don’t care about the world. A very high number of Americans have fought in wars and served abroad in the…
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What Should We Expect on Europe and China from the New German Government?
Central to the new German Europe strategy, as both Scholz and Baerbock have repeatedly acknowledged, will be the relationship with France, and especially President Emmanuel Macron.
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The shale revolution: past, present, future
The shale revolution – an unexpected phenomenon with far-reaching consequences – has been thrown into disarray by the global pandemic—an even more shocking phenomenon. But despite the serious setback…
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A Virus Challenging Governments within the EU
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his ruling government party Fidesz have secured comfortable leads in the last three general elections, most of the time ruling by a 2/3 supermajority. In…
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Streams Falling Into One River: A Threat to Democracy
The American political system is in the most serious crisis in decades, argue Ivan Hodac and Rüdiger Lentz in a double interview with Łukasz Pawłowski. The roots of this crisis go much deeper, they…

