His Excellency

Przemyslaw Grudzinski

Date of Presentation of Credentials: 

September 5, 2000

Date and place of birth:

October 30, 1950, Torun, Poland

Marital Status:

Married, two daughters 

 

Education:

1972    University of Nicolaus Copernicus, Toru·, M.A. History

1977    Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw: Ph. D., 

  Thesis: The Future of Europe in the Ideas of Franklin D. Roosevelt

1982    Institute of History, Polish Academy of Science,Warsaw: Habilitation, 

Thesis: US Nuclear Strategy, 1939 - 1945



Fellowships:

1978-1980       American Council of Learned Societies, Visiting Fellow, Princeton  University

 

1988 (Fall)        Fulbright Fellow, Princeton University

 

1989 (Spring)     Visiting Profesor, Center for International Studies, University of 

                        Southern California, Los Angeles and Center for Strategic and International   

                        Studies, UCLA   

 Employment:



1976  - 1996    Professor, Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw 

 

1990    Advisor to Deputy Minister of National Defense

1991    Director, Bureau of Research for the Sejm (Parliament) and Director General, Sejm



1992 – 1993    Deputy Minister of National Defense (Policy)

1994-1997 Professor, George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Garmisch – Partenkirchen, Germany



1997 – 2000   Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs





Organizations:

1980’s             Member of NSZZ “Solidarno··” (Solidarity movement) from its beginning; involved in the independent publishing activities (samizdat)

1994                Founding Member, Euro-Atlantic Association, Warsaw

1996                Founding Member, Council on Foreign Policy, Warsaw



Selected Publications:

Books:



1.        The Future of Europe in the Ideas of Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933-1945, Ossolineum,                         Warsaw 1980 (in Polish)



2.        Scientists and Barbarians: The Nuclear Policy of the United States, 1939-1945, Polish Scientific Publishers, PWN, Warsaw 1987 (in Polish)



3.        Theology of the Bomb. The Origins of Nuclear Deterrence, vol. I-III, Polish Scientific Publishers, PWN, Warsaw 1988 (in Polish)



4.        A Critical Approach to European Security. Identity and Institutions, with Peter van Ham, Pinter, London and New York 1999



Recent Papers:



1.      Polen und Russland. Polnische Befuerchtungen und Erwartungen, „Internationale Politik”, no 1/52, Januar 1997 (available also in Internationale Politik Russian edition)



  2.       Poland-Russia. Discord and Cooperation, Center for International Relations, Institute of Public Affairs, Warsaw 1997



  3.        Essay on Europe, with Peter van Ham, „The National Interest”, Winter 2000





Hobbies:     mountain-climbing