Tom Junes

It seems like there's some renewed interest in student politics. I will be adding my two cents in Switzerland next week... #StudentPolitics #StudentMovement #Poland #Communism #unibern

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WE'RE HIRING!...if you're a PhD student in Poland and are interested in youth under communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe...consider applying to join my research team in Warsaw!

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Here’s what you do when Russia won’t stay out of your airspace — Meduza In recent weeks, Estonia, Poland, and Romania have reported breaches of their airspace by Russian aircraft. Just this week, Norway revealed that Russian aircraft have violated its airspace three times...

In a new episode of The Naked Pravda, I speak to @olyaoliker.bsky.social about Russia’s escalating incursions into NATO airspace and how today’s tensions compare to the incident a decade ago when Turkey downed a Russian bomber in Syria. meduza.io/en/episodes/...

Good Change | Stanford University Press Few countries serve as a more useful case study for understanding the global tension between liberal and illiberal conceptions of democracy than Poland. Under the populist Law and Justice (PiS) –led g...

Our new book with @benstanley.eu on illiberalism in Poland has arrived with @stanfordpress.bsky.social. We look at the successes and failures of the Law and Justice (PiS) party as a leading example of the evolving global challenges to liberal democracy. www.sup.org/books/politi...

US media coverage of the Polish president's visit to the White House...apparently, Poland is a very important ally...

nice to see some comparative work being done on Polish history and very happy to have been able to contribute to this initiative with some #comparative reflections on communist rule in #Poland and #Bulgaria... coming out soon in print...

by Nobel Prize Loser...

Stupidest Summit Ever...is actually a beautiful take...

Putin saying 'Putin doesn't have agency'...

today at #ICCEES2025 - Session 5, 14:45-16:15 - room A5.04

In London for #ICCEES2025... This Tuesday, 22 July, 14:45-16:15 we'll be holding a round table with members of the Advisory Board of my NCN-funded project 'Comparative Perspectives on Students, Generations and Communism'...

Copies of The German Democratic Republic: The Rise and Fall of a Cold War State by Ned Richardson-Little (Bloomsbury, 2025)

It’s here!

"The paper concludes that the genocidal character of this conflict is a litmus test of the even more destructive wars looming on the horizon."

Two Weeks in Central Europe | 06 June 2025 Joining the TWiCE team this week is Tom Junes, historian and assistant professor at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, whose op-ed this week examined the second roun...

I sat down to talk about the Polish presidential elections and the new president-elect with the Two Weeks in Central Europe podcast... balkaninsight.com/2025/06/06/t...

Nawrocki's win was a serious blow to the governing coalition, but it could potentially backfire in PiS as well...liberals and conservatives have let the far-right genie out of the bottle...some thoughts on the presidential election in Poland... balkaninsight.com/2025/06/04/n...

Poland's next president will be an international embarrassment...once again, despite such promising potential #Poland managed to fail at rising from the periphery...Europe and the EU will remain dominated by the Franco-German axis for now...

Conservative values anno 2025...pimp meets puppy killer...

WE'RE HIRING! Four 3-year Doctoral Research Assistant positions in my research project on students, generations, and communism...candidates have to be enrolled in a Polish doctoral school programme...otherwise, there's quite some flexibility...links here:
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for those who think Trump is some master negotiator who will convince or coerce 'the Russians'...just remember that despite nearly four decades of trying there is still no Trump Tower in Moscow...

WE'RE HIRING! Four 3-year Doctoral Research Assistant positions in my research project on students, generations, and communism...candidates have to be enrolled in a Polish doctoral school programme...otherwise, there's quite some flexibility...links here:
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Just a reminder that there are presidential elections in Poland this weekend...

Could not agree more! My book, Saving Apartheid: White Internationalism at the End of the Cold War, traces exactly this transatlantic connection between apartheid and the American right from 1980 to 1994. Out with Columbia University Press late 2025/early 2026!

Interesting! blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

In Poland, we know all about fighting illiberal regimes. Here are our lessons for the Trump age | Jarosław Kuisz and Karolina Wigura Our political history is one of catastrophe, communism, and developing powerful antibodies against oppression, say Jarosław Kuisz and Karolina Wigura

no, PiS lost power because it engineered a draconian abortion ban and that mobilised women and young voters against them...right now the governing majority has lost its majority support because it has failed to show enough political will to undo that ban... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Yes, absolutely...and, personally, I'm very much in favour of Europe becoming a haven for US-based academics...a country like Poland could benefit very much from such a move...

21. Flee to Canada...it's not the fact that Snyder left the US because of MAGA etc...it's because he did so after moralising and telling others to take a bullet for freedom...it's the hypocrisy (and resulting cowardice) that should be criticised...not the perceived threat of fascism...

Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and

And you were assuming that the US could get out of its autocracy spiral through free and fair elections in the future? Well, think again. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

How does a country restore democracy? That's the challenge facing Poland for the past year. Turns out it's not easy. My report up shortly on @theworld.org with thanks @tomjunes.bsky.social @kamilaceran.bsky.social Tune in: theworld.org

I ordered my copy, and you should get one, too. @jeremymorris.bsky.social is one of the sharpest minds out there. The field needs scholars like him.

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