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When: November 6th, 2024
Where: online, registration is necessary - https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FaWrgcEYRlGiJTbhdgTdLQ
This online event, jointly organised by the Baltic Geopolitics Programme at the Centre for Geopolitics at Cambridge University and the Institute of International Relations of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (MCSU), will explore the modalities of Poland’s evolving defence strategy in the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The war in Ukraine has shaped Poland’s security policies, prompting significant military modernisation and the increase in military spending. In the year of 2024, Poland will spend about 4.12% of its GDP on defence, which is the highest percentage among NATO members. These changes can not but affect Poland’s relationships with the European NATO countries and the United States.
This online event brings together the leading Polish security experts to address how Poland’s role in European security has shifted from being primarily a security consumer to taking on a more proactive and assertive stance which is also shaping regional defence policy. The discussion will focus on Poland’s defence modernisation efforts, its new defence procurements, and its developing strategic partnerships and initiatives aimed at strengthening the Eastern Flank.
Speakers:
- Mr. Tomasz Awdankiewicz, Director of the International Security Department, National Security Bureau, Warsaw
- Mr. Dominik P. Jankowski, Deputy Permanent Representative, Permanent Delegation of the Republic of Poland to NATO
- Prof. Monika Sus, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw / Hertie School in Berlin; Visiting Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence
- Mr. Marek Świerczyński, Polityka Insight, Head of Security and International Affairs Desk
The event will be hosted by Dr. Donatas Kupčiūnas, Baltic Fellow, Centre for Geopolitics, University of Cambridge, and Dr. Damian Szacawa, Assistant Professor, Institute of International Relations, MCSU in Lublin and Senior Analyst in the Baltic Department, Institute of Central Europe.
