Place and date of birth
Toruń, 30 October 1950

Education:

• 1982  Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, habilitation thesis: “United States Nuclear Strategy, 1939-1945”
• 1977  Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, doctoral thesis: “The Future of Europe in the Concepts of President Franklin D. Roosevelt”
• 1972  Institute of History, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, master’s thesis: “The American-Mexican War 1846-1848”

Scholarships:

• 1989 (spring semester)  Visiting Professor, Center for International Studies, University of Southern California and Center for Strategic and International Studies, UCLA
• 1988 (autumn semester)   Fulbright Fellow, Princeton University
• 1980 (spring semester) ACLS Visiting Fellow, G. Washington University, Washington
• 1979 (autumn semester)    ACLS Visiting Fellow, Princeton University

Professional career:

• 03.2005-08.2008  Professor, George C. Marshall Center for Security Studies, Garmisch, Germany
• 2000-2005  Polish Ambassador to the United States
• 1998-2000  Under-Secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• 1994-1997  Professor, George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Garmisch, Germany
• 1992-1993  Under-Secretary of State for Defence Policy in the Ministry of National Defence
• 1991-1992  Director of the Bureau of Research, Director General in the Chancellery of the Sejm
• 1976-1996  Lecturer and then reader in the Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw
• 1972-1974   Assistant in the Institute of History, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń

Publications

Books:

• “Przyszłość Europy w koncepcjach Franklina D. Roosevelta, 1933-1945”, Ossolineum, Warsaw 1980
• “Uczeni i barbarzyńcy.  Strategia nuklearna Stanów Zjednoczonych, 1939-1945”, PWN, Warsaw 1987
• “Teologia bomby. Geneza nuklearnego odstraszania”, I-III, PWN, Warsaw 1988
• “A Critical Approach to European Security: Identity and Institutions”, Pinter, London and New York 1999 (z Peter van Ham)
• “Państwo inteligentne. Polska w poszukiwaniu międzynarodowej roli” , Wydawnictwo Adam Marszalek, Toruń 2008