While waiting for Jordan Peterson's new book, I asked myself first of all: has his encounter with chaos changed anything in his perception of the world? Changes have occurred – small, but still significant

The pandemic reveals the dilemmas that the environmental crisis will bring in amplified form: how to balance collective action with human freedom? What lives to protect and what lives to risked? How to balance survival with what survival is for?

International organisations, with their growing power and authority, are becoming a tempting target for superpowers that want to increase their influence on a global scale and build their own status in international relations

The new division seems to organise the most important political processes, from the election in Greece through the neo-imperial leap of Russia to the formation of the Islamic State

The West must share its power with Asia or abandon its domination outright, says Kishore Mahbubani. This author is a controversial one, but perhaps we should take a look at us in the mirror his works are

The news of successes of SARS-CoV-2 candidate vaccines emerge with fears of their health safety. Medical issues aside, there are equally important issues of logistics and the plummeting trust citizens have for the actions of their authorities.

Serious concerns are justified, but the cry "this is authoritarianism, totalitarianism, dictatorship!" should be used only in the most dangerous moments. Otherwise it stops working, just as it happened in Poland

Europe still does not see China as a national security problem, at most an economic problem, and, to a large extent, an economic opportunity. In the US we now look at China as a military and economic problem set

On the one hand, China has market access, and on the other hand, it has developed a predatory market policy. The Chinese are outcompeting Western companies by subsidizing their own, largely state-owned enterprises. This is why the Trump administration finally said: enough

If you attend the soccer games which Viktor Orbán also personally attends, you have a chance to meet Orbán himself, or high-ranking state officials, and in the half-time break you can talk about business

Unlike assumed by Poland’s elites, the baseline scenario is American defeat and not American victory, the latter being not impossible but highly unlikely. And this changes a lot for the Republic of Poland