Wojciech Górecki
Senior Fellow
Department for Turkey, Caucasus and Central Asia
- Since 2016 (and also between 1998–2002 and 2007–2013) – OSW analyst
- 2014–2015 – Solidarity Fund PL, Board Member
- 2009 – Expert for the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Conflict in Georgia
- 2002–2007 – I Secretary, Counsellor at the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Baku, Azerbaijan
- Visiting lecturer in the Centre for East European Studies, University of Warsaw and Foreign Policy Study, The Polish Institute of International Affairs among others
Co-operation with a number of Polish reviews: Nowa Europa Wschodnia, New Eastern Europe, Tygiel Kultury and Nowe Książki among others
He completed his doctoral studies at the Graduate School for Social Research (at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 1998), graduate of the Faculty of Humanities at the Catholic University of Lublin (M.A. in History, 1995) and the Faculty of Journalism and Political Sciences at the University of Warsaw (M.A. in Journalism, 1994).
Expertise
- Internal and foreign policy of the South Caucasus countries
- The North Caucasus
- The countries of post-Soviet Central Asia
Major publications
- The (pan-)Turkic Caucasus. The Baku-Ankara alliance and its regional importance (co-author: Mateusz Chudziak), OSW Commentary, no. 374, 1 February 2021.
- * 'Kultura jako źródło porozumienia' [Culture as a Source of Rapport; the interview], Nowa Europa Wschodnia, no. 5/2020
- The Gordian Knot of the Caucasus. The Conflict Over Nagorno-Karabakh, OSW, Warsaw 2020
- The Autumn of the (Georgian) Patriarch. The Role of the Orthodox Church in Georgia and in Georgian Politics’, OSW Commentary, no. 332, 18 May 2020
- ‘Dziennik tematów wschodnich’ [Journal of Eastern Topics], Nowa Europa Wschodnia, no. 6/2019
- * 'Wywiad z Nazarbajewem' [Interview with Nazarbayev], Nowa Europa Wschodnia, no. 3–4/2019
- * ‘Rok 2018 na Kaukazie Południowym. To przyszła młodość’ [The Year 2018 in South Caucasus – the Year of the Youth], Nowa Europa Wschodnia, no. 2/2019
- * ‘Semipałatyńsk. Sprawy nieludzkie’ [Semipalatinsk. Beyond Endurance ], Nowa Europa Wschodnia, no. 1/2019
- ‘Politics of Memory in Independent Georgia. Selected Aspects’, Institute of National Remembrance Review, no. 1/2019
- A Revolution in Instalments. Whither Pashinyan’s Armenia now?’, OSW Commentary, no. 285, 10 September 2018
- ‘Traces of Soviet Union’, New Eastern Europe, no. 5/2017
- * ‘W poszukiwaniu ukrytego orientalizmu’ [In Search of Hidden Orientalism], Nowa Europa Wschodnia, no. 3–4/2017
- * ‘Moje Baku’ [My Baku], Nowa Europa Wschodnia, no. 6/2016
- Peninsula As an Island. Crimea in Its Third Year Since Annexation, OSW, Warsaw 2016
- * ‘Koniec abchaskiego złudzenia’ [The End of Abkhasian Illusion], Nowa Europa Wschodnia, no. 5/2015
- ‘Abkhazia’s ‘Creeping’ Incorporation. The End of the Experiment of a Separatist Democracy’, OSW Commentary, no. 164, 12 March 2015
- Ever Further from Moscow. Russia's Stance on Central Asia, OSW, Warsaw 2014
- No Change in the Russian Caucasus. The Winter Olympics Amid a Local War, OSW, Warsaw 2014
- ‘'Creeping' Civil War in the North Caucasus’, OSW Commentary, no. 50, 15 March 2011
- ‘Russia's Position on the Events in Kyrgyzstan (April – June 2010)’, OSW Commentary, no. 38, 27 July 2010
- * ‘Przemiany islamu na Kaukazie Północno-Zachodnim w okresie poradzieckim’ [Transformations of Islam in North-West Caucasus in the Post-Soviet Era], [in:] Okręt Koszykowa, edited by: Jacek Borkowicz, Jacek Cichocki i Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz, PWN, Warszawa 2007, pp. 217–24
* Publications available in Polish only
Books
- Łódź. Miasto po przejściach [Łódź Has Gone Through a Lot], co-author: Bartosz Józefiak, Wydawnictwo Czarne, Wołowiec 2020
- Buran. Kirgiz wraca na koń [Buran. The Kyrgyz Mounts Again], Wydawnictwo Czarne, Wołowiec 2018
- Abchazja [Abkhazia], Wydawnictwo Czarne, Wołowiec 2013. Translated into Georgian and Ukrainian
- Toast za przodków [A Toast to the Ancestors], Wydawnictwo Czarne, Wołowiec 2010. Translated into Chinese, Czech, Georgian and Ukrainian
- Planeta Kaukaz [Planet Caucasus], Wydawnictwo Czarne, Wołowiec 2010. Translated into Georgian, Slovak and Italian
- La terra del vello d`oro. Viaggi in Georgia [The Land of the Golden Fleece. Journeys to Georgia], Bollati Boringhieri, Torino 2009
- Łódź przeżyła katharsis [Łódź Has Gone Through Catharsis], Biblioteka „Tygla Kultury”, Łódź 1998