Miłosz J. Cordes

Miłosz J. Cordes is an independent analyst of Russia and its security implications for Central and Northern Europe. He is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Casimir Pulaski Foundation, where he writes most of the Foundation’s papers on Russian domestic and foreign policy, and lectures at the Danish Institute for Study Abroad in Copenhagen.

He holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies, an M.A. in East-European Cultural Studies and International Relations, and a B.A. in History and International Relations, from Warsaw University and St. Petersburg State University. In 2022–2023 he was a postdoctoral researcher at Lund University.

Before turning to research full time, he spent nine years in the Polish diplomatic service, including as Vice-Consul in Kaliningrad and Second Secretary at Poland’s Permanent Representation to the European Union in Brussels.

His research covers identity and the politics of memory in Central and Eastern Europe, their impact on security, and relations between the West and Russia. He has written more than 30 academic and public intellectual articles and numerous policy papers, including the opening report of the 2023 Warsaw Security Forum. Some earlier works appear under the name Zieliński.