Paulina Markowska

NATO’s Role in the Hybrid War on the EU Border

At the turn of November and December 2021, NATO Foreign Ministers met in Riga, Latvia, to discuss the increasingly tense geopolitical situation in Eastern Europe. The main talks focused on the Russian forces deployed not far from Ukraine’s borders...

Internal US Problems

The United States has faced multiple problems in recent years. The pandemic has highlighted them and revealed how fragile the American economy is.

Turkey: An unruly NATO partner?

Relations between NATO and Turkey have been strained since the country in 2017, purchased a Russian made S-400 missle defence system. Described as a "Russian intelligence collection platform", US defence officials feared, the missle deal could...

Quantum Race

Quantum computers employ the unique properties of atoms and photons to solve computational problems considerably faster than ordinary computers. On the one hand, their availability will enable breakthroughs in many disciplines, from medicine...

Post-COVID-19 Economic Complications

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic left a huge mark on the world's economies. It seems that since then, the situation has settled down. Since the second half...

The United States and Sweden During the Cold War: Part 3

Stockholm’s policy after World War II was characterized by flexibility and balance, which was typical for the Swedish diplomacy, at least until the end...

Ctrl+F: Searching for the Perpetrator

The Internet plays a significant role on the geopolitical board. The intelligence services of conflicting countries carry out cyber espionage operations...

Is the United Kingdom Still a Great Place to Invest?

The UK gave the world the industrial revolution and exported the capitalist model that’s used in almost every country. It was once described as a “nation...

The United States and Sweden during the Cold War: Part 2

In the Cold War period, Sweden had de facto three foreign policy choices. First, to yet again attempt to cooperate with the other Scandinavian states more...

U.S.-Poland Nuclear Cooperation

Shortly before the U.S. presidential election in November 2020, back when Donald Trump was in power, Poland and the United States signed a strategic agreement...

U.S. and Sweden in Cold War Era

The period after the end of World War II was a time when European countries had to rebuild damaged economies. Nonetheless, the Swedish economy was soaring...

Nord Stream 2 Divides Europe

Possibly by sending its gas through Ukraine, Russia could refrain from offering more generous support to pro-Kremlin rebel fighters while the Russian-German...

We’ll keep homes supplied if energy firms go bust

In an interview with the BBC, Steve Rosenberg, the network’s Moscow correspondent, quoted a senior Russian official, who claimed that ‘in many ways, the...

US Evacuation from Afghanistan: Haste Makes Waste

August 30, 2021, when the last US Air Force aircraft took off from Kabul airport, marked the end of the nearly two-decade-long US intervention in Afghanistan.