Tom Junes
@tomjunes.bsky.social
Historian, Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences.
Based in Poland and Bulgaria, my work focuses on Central and Eastern European politics and history.
https://politic.edu.pl/faculty/tom-junes-ph-d/
Based in Poland and Bulgaria, my work focuses on Central and Eastern European politics and history.
https://politic.edu.pl/faculty/tom-junes-ph-d/
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Tom Junes
@tomjunes.bsky.social
· Nov 21
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Even after the end of #Poland's PiS government, its divisive memory politics persists under President Nawrocki. In her new #ZOiS_Spotlight, sociologist Magdalena Lemańczyk examines initiatives that prioritise dialogue and reconciliation: the Polish-German commemoration of post-war camps for Germans.
Who Owns the (Difficult) Past in Poland?
ZOiS Spotlight 20/2025 by Magdalena Lemańczyk
www.zois-berlin.de
November 5, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Even after the end of #Poland's PiS government, its divisive memory politics persists under President Nawrocki. In her new #ZOiS_Spotlight, sociologist Magdalena Lemańczyk examines initiatives that prioritise dialogue and reconciliation: the Polish-German commemoration of post-war camps for Germans.
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It's the day Dick Cheney died, time to recommend "Reign of Terror" to someone too young to remember the Bush years, or too old to remember them accurately www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/622555...
Reign of Terror by Spencer Ackerman: 9781984879790 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A New York Times Critics’ Top Book of 2021 "An impressive combination of diligence and verve, deploying Ackerman’s deep stores of knowledge as a national security journalist to full...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:41 PM
It's the day Dick Cheney died, time to recommend "Reign of Terror" to someone too young to remember the Bush years, or too old to remember them accurately www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/622555...
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
www.ub.unibe.ch/teilbiblioth...
www.ub.unibe.ch/teilbiblioth...
October 24, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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
www.ub.unibe.ch/teilbiblioth...
www.ub.unibe.ch/teilbiblioth...
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!
isppan.bip.gov.pl/search/jobof...
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October 1, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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!
isppan.bip.gov.pl/search/jobof...
isppan.bip.gov.pl/search/jobof...
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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/...
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...
meduza.io
September 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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/...
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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...
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...
www.sup.org
September 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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...
September 3, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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...
August 22, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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...
today at #ICCEES2025 - Session 5, 14:45-16:15 - room A5.04
July 22, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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'...
July 20, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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'...
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"The paper concludes that the genocidal character of this conflict is a litmus test of the even more destructive wars looming on the horizon."
Organized Callousness: Gaza and the Sociology of War by Siniša Malešević and Lea David www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Organized Callousness: Gaza and the Sociology of War
Published in Journal of Genocide Research (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
June 10, 2025 at 9:59 AM
"The paper concludes that the genocidal character of this conflict is a litmus test of the even more destructive wars looming on the horizon."
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...
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...
balkaninsight.com
June 6, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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...
June 4, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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...
June 2, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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...
May 27, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Conservative values anno 2025...pimp meets puppy killer...
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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:
isppan.bip.gov.pl/search/jobof...
isppan.bip.gov.pl/search/jobof...
May 16, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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:
isppan.bip.gov.pl/search/jobof...
isppan.bip.gov.pl/search/jobof...
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...
May 19, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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:
isppan.bip.gov.pl/search/jobof...
isppan.bip.gov.pl/search/jobof...
May 16, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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:
isppan.bip.gov.pl/search/jobof...
isppan.bip.gov.pl/search/jobof...
Just a reminder that there are presidential elections in Poland this weekend...
May 15, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Just a reminder that there are presidential elections in Poland this weekend...
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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!
based on some reading i'm doing at the moment, there is a book to be written — if it already hasn't been — on defense of apartheid south africa as the great international cause of the american right
May 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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...
May 1, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Interesting! blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
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...
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
www.theguardian.com
April 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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...
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...
March 27, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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...
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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...
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
www.whitehouse.gov
March 26, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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...