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  • July 22, 2024July 22, 2024

Just for the Record. Entry fourteen: clash of civilizations or convergence?

The Western vision of the world originally assumed (two hundred years ago) its civilizational and cultural homogenization based on Western values. This is the stigma attached to universalism. And capitalism, spreading around the world since…

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  • July 8, 2024November 15, 2024

Just for the Record. Entry thirteen: democracy and leadership

All states are equal (in terms of international law), but in political terms (due to differences in power) some are more equal than others. This truth is old and indisputable. The fundamental inequalities in terms…

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  • June 17, 2024June 18, 2024

Just for the Record. Entry twelve: Pax technologica – Pax mechanica – Pax post-humana – Pax Gaia

Technological progress drives history. The fact that the current technological revolution will change the world is indisputable. The possibilities created by the digital technologies and the Internet were the first impulse to activate our imagination.…

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  • June 3, 2024June 3, 2024

Just for the Record. Entry eleven: international institutions and the citizen

I cannot hide it (because it is already obvious to the reader of the blog): I am a supporter of bold (though not necessarily radical) changes in the functioning of international institutions, especially global ones,…

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  • May 20, 2024May 20, 2024

Just for the Record. Entry ten: how to make institutions instrumental to change?

International institutions usually become a handy tool for venting social frustrations in times of international crises. The war in Ukraine has sparked many criticisms blaming the UN and OSCE for their inability to act effectively.…

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  • May 6, 2024May 6, 2024

Just for the Record. Entry nine: The pursuit of European and global identity

Each ambitious idea for deepening European integration is jeopardised by the uncertainty as to its approval by the citizens of the Member States. The failure of the Constitutional Treaty in 2005 has for many years…

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  • April 22, 2024April 22, 2024

Just for the Record. Entry eight: Civic identity: national, European, global

From September 2019 to August 2022, for almost three years, I experienced feelings that were tearing my professional conscience. As a member of the Polish diplomatic service, I remained a loyal official of my state,…

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  • April 8, 2024April 8, 2024

Just for the Record. Entry seven: The crisis of elites and international politics

For centuries, conspiracy theorists have searched for traces of a secret mechanism for managing the world. And they are searching to this day. Back in 2012, a distinguished PiS MP (Mrs. Gabriela MasÅ‚owska) asked Marek…

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  • March 25, 2024March 25, 2024

Just for the Record. Entry six: The crisis of the elites

In a justly bygone era, in a justly bygone empire, in the city of Chernomorsk, men in white quilted vests commented on the work of the Geneva disarmament conference in the pages of an unforgettable…

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  • March 8, 2024March 25, 2024

Just for the Record. Entry five: Feminization of the international order

The new universalism has a feminine face. I’m not talking about Greta Thunberg. Not about Ursula von der Leyen even more. Nor is it that today’s bold political activism has rested on the shoulders of…

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