![Piotr Szymański](/sites/default/files/styles/biogram_prostokat/public/biogramy/IMG_0405.jpg?itok=10XJ-Z1p)
Analyst at the Security and Defence Department. At the OSW since 2015, first in the Security and Defence in Northern Europe Project, then in the Regional Security Programme. In 2022-2024 he worked in the bureau of the Swiss Federal Office for Customs and Border Security at the Embassy of Switzerland in Warsaw (with accreditation for Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Frontex).
Graduate of the Institute of International Relations, University of Warsaw (majoring in Security and Strategic Studies). Project co-investigator in the Sonata grant of Poland’s National Science Centre – The Sense of Mission in Russian Foreign Policy.
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NATO’s defence and deterrence
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security and defence policy of the main NATO member states
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security in the Nordic-Baltic region
- Washington Summit – NATO's anniversary in the shadow of the war, OSW Commentary, July 2024
- NATO’s polar quartet. The US, Canada, Denmark and Norway in the Arctic, OSW Report, March 2023
- Mission saves us all: Great Russia and Global Britain dealing with ontological insecurity, International Relations, December 2022
- Polens Sicherheitspolitik, das Baltikum und Europas Norden, WeltTrends, December 2021
- Post-2020 Belarus: Security and Defence Implications for the Baltic States, Poland, and NATO, LIIA, November 2021
- The UK’s Integrated Review and NATO’s north-eastern flank, OSW Commentary, June 2021
- High North, high priority – Norway and the defence of NATO’s northern flank, OSW Commentary, May 2021
- Defence Policy and the Armed Forces in Times of Pandemic, National Defence Academy of Latvia, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, March 2021
- Wrestling in Greenland. Denmark, the United States and China in the land of ice, OSW Commentary, March 2021
- Towards #NATO2030: The Regional Perspective of the Baltic States and Poland, LIIA, December 2020
- Lessons from the Enhanced Forward Presence, 2017-2020, Research Paper, NATO Defense College, November 2020
- Seeking an additional reassurance. The EU and France in Estonia’s security policy, OSW Commentary, September 2020
- Towards greater resilience: NATO and the EU on hybrid threats, OSW Commentary, April 2020
- New ideas for total defence. Comprehensive security in Finland and Estonia, OSW Report, March 2020
- The consequences of Brexit for the UK’s security policy and NATO’s eastern flank, OSW Commentary, April 2019
- The northern tandem. The Swedish-Finnish defence cooperation, OSW Commentary March 2019
- NATO‘s Northeast Quartet: Prospects and Opportunities for Baltic-Polish Defence Cooperation, Policy Paper, ICDS, November 2018
- With Russia right across the border. Finland’s security policy, OSW Study, May 2018
- Overstretched? Denmark’s security policy and armed forces in light of the new Defence Agreement, OSW Commentary, April 2018
- The multi-speed Baltic States. Reinforcing the defence capabilities of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, OSW Study, August 2017
- Between co-operation and membership. Sweden and Finland’s relations with NATO, OSW Study, March 2017
- Russia and the security in the Baltic Sea region, Policy Briefing, Centrum Balticum, January 2017
- The Nordic countries on Nord Stream 2: between scepticism and neutrality, OSW Commentary, October 2016
- Pro-American non-alignment. Sweden and Finland develop closer military co-operation with the United States, OSW Commentary, April 2016
- Between continuation and adaptation: The Baltic states’ security policy and armed forces, OSW Commentary, November 2015
- The Baltic states’ Territorial Defence Forces in the face of hybrid threats, OSW Commentary, March 2015