Sławomir Sierakowski

Fellowship

Mercator Senior Fellowship

Granting institution

Period of the Fellowship

July 2023 - June 2024

Project title

The EU’s New Eastern Doctrine

Project description

Against the backdrop of a changing international order, Sławomir Sierakowski addresses the question of how a new, joint European Eastern policy may look like. During his fellowship, he focuses on EU-Eastern European relations and the role of third countries in this context.

Short biography

Sławomir Sierakowski is a Polish sociologist and political analyst. A graduate of the University of Warsaw, Sierakowski has been awarded fellowships from Yale, Princeton, Harvard, the DGAP, the German Marshall Fund, twice from the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, and the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin, among others. He is the director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Warsaw.

Sierakowski is the founder and leader of Krytyka Polityczna (Political Critique), an Eastern European movement of liberal intellectuals, artists, and activists. He is the president of the Stanislaw Brzozowski Association.

Sierakowski became a contributing author for the New York Times in 2013 and a monthly columnist for Project Syndicate in 2015. He is also a weekly columnist for Poland’s largest portal, Onet.pl, and a political commentator for the weekly news magazine Polityka. He has contributed to essays and op-eds focusing mainly on Polish and European politics and culture to publications including the Financial TimesForeign PolicyDie ZeitLe Monde, and The New York Review of Books.