Leszek Sykulski (born 1981 in

Częstochowa Częstochowa ( , ) is a city in southern Poland on the Warta with 214,342 inhabitants, making it the thirteenth-largest city in Poland. It is situated in the Silesian Voivodeship. However, Częstochowa is historically part of Lesser Poland, not Si ...

) is a Polish

political scientist Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and Power (social and political), power, and the analysis of political activities, political philosophy, political thought, polit ...

specializing in

geopolitics Geopolitics () is the study of the effects of Earth's geography on politics and international relations. Geopolitics usually refers to countries and relations between them, it may also focus on two other kinds of State (polity), states: ''de fac ...

Biography

He graduated from

Jagiellonian University The Jagiellonian University (, UJ) is a public research university in Kraków, Poland. Founded in 1364 by Casimir III the Great, King Casimir III the Great, it is the oldest university in Poland and one of the List of oldest universities in con ...

in Cracow (MA in history), Silesian University in Katowice (PhD in political science) and National Defence University in Warsaw (postgraduate studies). He graduated also from General Kosciuszko Military Academy of Land Forces (reserve officers' course). Assistant professor in Department of National Security at the College of Business and Entrepreneurship in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski. He was also a lecturer in National Defence University in Warsaw and Polonia University in Częstochowa. In 2015 was a visiting professor in Saint Jerome University in Douala (Cameroon). He worked as an international security analyst in the Office of the President of Poland during presidency of

Lech Kaczyński Lech Aleksander Kaczyński (; 18 June 194910 April 2010) was a Polish politician who served as the city mayor of Warsaw from 2002 until 2005, and as President of Poland from 2005 until his death in 2010 in an air crash. The aircraft carrying ...

. Sykulski is the founder of the pro-Russian Polish Geopolitical Society (in 2008–2009, 2012-2014 – president, now – honorary president), "Geopolitical Review" quarterly (in 2009-2016 – editor-in-chief) and far-right Geopolityka.net internet portal (editor-in-chief). He is also Editor of Polish "Ante Portas – Security Studies" and Bulgarian "Geopolitika". Leszek Sykulski is a geopolitician and focuses his work on, amongst others, the representation of space in the

information warfare Information warfare (IW) is the battlespace use and management of information and communication technology (ICT) in pursuit of a competitive advantage over an opponent. It is different from ''cyberwarfare'' that attacks computers, software, and ...

and Russian and Polish geopolitical thought. He advocates for cooperation between Poland and Russia, as in his opinion it would be in Poland's national interest. He is also engaged in research about the

Central Europe Central Europe is a geographical region of Europe between Eastern Europe, Eastern, Southern Europe, Southern, Western Europe, Western and Northern Europe, Northern Europe. Central Europe is known for its cultural diversity; however, countries in ...

Selected publications

* ''Polska myśl geopolityczna w latach 1989-2009'' (Polish Geopolitical Thought 1989–2009), Chorzów 2015, . * ''Studia nad rosyjską geopolityką'' (Studies on Russian Geopolitics), Częstochowa 2014, . *''Geopolitics – Grounded in the Past, Geared Toward the Future'', Częstochowa 2013, . *''Geopolityka. Słownik terminologiczny'' (Geopolitics. Dictionary), Warszawa 2009, .

References

External links

Leszek Sykulski
– profile in Academia.edu
Leszek Sykulski
- biography on the site of the Institute of Geopolitics in Poland. {{DEFAULTSORT:Sykulski, Leszek Living people Geopoliticians 1981 births Polish political scientists