Henryk Szlajfer (born 7 November 1947,

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at the

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, in the years 1993–2008, director of the Department of Strategy and Policy Planning, then of the American Department and

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, appointed by then

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as an ambassador ad personam, former ambassador-head of the Polish Permanent Representation to the

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Biography

In 1968 Szlajfer and

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, at that time students of the

, were expelled from the university for their opposition activity. On March 8, 1968, a rally took place in their defence, which marked the beginning of mass student protests known as the

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. Associated with the so-called banana youth, he was sentenced to 2 years in

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. Editor-in-chief of the quarterly magazine '' Sprawy Międzynarodowe'' (from 1992) and its English version ''The Polish Quarterly of International Affairs''. Member of the editorial board of the '' Studia Polityczne'' magazine (ISP PAN). In the 1990s in the Editorial Council of the ''

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Selected publications

*
Economic Nationalism and Globalization: Lessons from Latin America and Central Europe
', Brill, Leiden 2012 *
Western Europe, Eastern Europe and World Development 13th-18th Centuries: Collection of Essays of Marian Małowist
' (co-editor Jean Batou), Brill, Leiden 2009 *''The Faltering Economy. The Problem of Accumulation under Monopoly Capitalism'' (współredaktor John B. Foster), Monthly Review Press, New York 1984 *''From the Polish Underground. Selections from "Krytyka", 1978-1993'' (współredaktor Michael Bernhard), The Pennsylvania State University Press 1995 *''Europa Środkowo-Wschodnia i Ameryka Południowa 1918-1939: szkice o nacjonalizmie ekonomicznym'' (Redakcja), PWN, Warszawa 1992 *''Dezintegracja przestrzeni eurazjatyckiej a bezpieczeństwo Europy Środkowej i Wschodniej'', PISM, Warszawa 1993 *''Polacy – Żydzi: zderzenie stereotypów:esej dla przyjaciół i innych'', Wydawnictwo Naukowe SCHOLAR, Warszawa 2003 *''Droga na skróty: nacjonalizm gospodarczy w Ameryce Łacińskiej i Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej w epoce pierwszej globalizacji: kategorie, analiza, kontekst porównawczy'', ISP PAN, Warszawa 2005 *''Modernizacja zależności: kapitalizm i rozwój w Ameryce Łacińskiej'', Osollineum, Wrocław 1984 *''Nineteenth century Latin America: two models of capitalism: the case of Haiti and Paraguay''

References

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