EXPERTISE
International relations, politics, migration
LANGUAGES
Polish, English
BIOGRAPHY
Krzysztof Rak is a historian of diplomacy and philosophy, translator, publicist, expert in the field of international relations. He is a doctor of historical sciences (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University) and managing director of the Polish-German Cooperation Foundation. He has been a journalist since the second half of the 1990s,. He published, among others in “Życie”, “Wprost”, Rzeczpospolita, “W sieci”, “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”, “Die Welt” and “Handelsblatt”.
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Franco-German Strategic Dissonance
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Why Destroy the Nation State?
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The New European Constellation
The international constellation formed after the West’s victory in the Cold War is being inevitably eradicated, and the three pillars that originally constituted it have already been eroded.
Germany’s Inglorious Isolation
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Warsaw Institute
