/ˈmi.wɔʂ/ Miłosz J. Cordes

Tag: eu

  • Roundtable on Danish-Ukrainian Academic Research Cooperation

    Roundtable on Danish-Ukrainian Academic Research Cooperation

    Ukrainian scholars staying and working in Denmark have provided a substantial boost to the country’s research capabilities. At the same time, their presence here is marked by tragic consequences of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, already since the annexation of Crime and the regional-scale war in Donbas.

    I was honoured to participate in Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS) – Aarhus University’s and Ukrainian Academic Network in Denmark’s roundtable where I presented my own research on official Russian memory policies. I also talked about DIS – Study Abroad’s cooperation with Ukrainian institutions, part of which is my summer course on security developments in Central and Northern Europe, attented by students from Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. Many thanks to Lesia Heiko, PhD and the team for this opportunity!

  • Journal paper: Kaliningrad Oblast, EU Enlargement and Memory Politics in Russia

    Journal paper: Kaliningrad Oblast, EU Enlargement and Memory Politics in Russia

    The question of European Union’s enlargement and its impact on non-hard security, non-economic issues related to Kaliningrad Oblast remains scarcely addressed in academia. Most works focus on NATO, not the EU as the main factor of geopolitical dynamics in the Baltic Sea Region and parts of Central and Eastern Europe.

    In my recent paper for “Sprawy Międzynarodowe”, I address the evolution that memory politics in Russia has undergone since Vladimir Putin’s comeback to presidential seat in 2012 and the so-called new conservative project. His campaign programme articles paved the way for redefining official understanding of Russianness, which particularly affected Kaliningrad Oblast with its pre-1945 past.

    The subsequent years witnessed an attempt to holistically redefine the existing narratives of the past in the semi-exclave and weave them into the concept of Russia as a unique civilisational centre and the Oblast as its frontier.
    The foundations of this process were laid already in the early to mid-2000s and were linked to the 2004 EU enlargement with neighbouring Poland and Lithuania joining and the emergence of EU’s redefined Neighbourhood Policy. This paper seeks to look at these events to identify linkages between enlarging the EU and redefining part of its external policies and Russian memory politics in the particular case of Kaliningrad Oblast.

  • Meeting with Head of Mission of Greenland in Brussels

    Meeting with Head of Mission of Greenland in Brussels

    So much has been said about Greenland in the recent weeks in the U.S., Denmark and elsewhere in Europe that one feels the Greenlanders themselves might find it challenging to convey important messages about their country and its future.

    My European Game of Politics: Crisis and Survival course at DIS – Study Abroad had the honour and the pleasure of meeting with Inuuteq Holm Olsen, Head of Mission at the Greenland Mission to the EU. Together with my students and, we held an open talk about what happened in the history of Greenland and the Greenlanders and how taking full ownership of affairs in their country after centuries of colonial presence of Europeans needs to be a well-thought process that might but does not mean independence in the foreseeable future.

  • Visit to the Embasy of Poland to Denmark with DIS Students

    Visit to the Embasy of Poland to Denmark with DIS Students

    How do you prepare and run national presidency in the EU Council? How can a member state and its institutions adjust to dynamically changing circumstances and a growing number of challenges over just half a year? How can an ambitious and a large player like Poland pursue its interests and care of the EU as a whole at the same time? Together with my core course at DIS – Study Abroad and Neringa Bigailaitė Vendelbo we had the privilege and the pleasure of visiting Poland’s Embassy to Denmark. Head of Mission Ewa Dębska and her team gave us a convincing account of how it is to work in international environment, linking bilateral and multilateral diplomacy in times like these.


    My experiential learning-based European Game of Politics: Crisis and Survival course will soon transform into a classroom on wheels. We will go to Brussels to meet with EU professionals and long-term friends of DIS, such as Jon Kyst, Soren Liborius, Sidonie Wetzig, College of Europe and many more. We will talk about security, resilience, future of the transatlantic alliance, EU’s support for Ukraine and other topics vital for a billion people living on both sides of the Atlantic.