Radosław Sikorski

Radosław Sikorski Tomasz ( [ radɔswaf ɕikɔrsk ʲ i], listen to? / I, born February 23, 1963 in Bydgoszcz, Poland), often referred to by the short form Radek Sikorski, is a Polish political scientist, historian, politician and journalist. From 31 October 2005 to 5 February 2007, he was a non-party defense minister of the Polish government. Since November 16, 2007 he is a Polish foreign minister and member of the liberal party Civic Platform ( Platforma Obywatelska, PO).

Life

Sikorski visited in his hometown high school and headed during the Solidarity period of an intra -curricular strike committee. After high school he left in 1981, the then People's Republic of Poland and studied inter alia in Leszek Kolakowski philosophy and political science at Pembroke College, Oxford University.

1986-1989 Sikorski worked as a foreign correspondent for the Spectator and The Observer in Afghanistan, Angola and Yugoslavia. For his photographs, he was the 1987 World Press Photo Award. 1990 until 1991 he was correspondent for the Sunday Telegraph Poles and Poland at the same time adviser to the publisher Rupert Murdoch.

1992 Sikorski was deputy defense minister in the cabinet of the Polish Prime Minister in January Olszewski. From 1998 to 2001 he was deputy foreign minister in the government of Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek. From 2002 he worked as director of the New Atlantic Initiative in the influential American Enterprise Institute in Washington. In the parliamentary elections of 2005, he was elected in the constituency of Bydgoszcz in the Senate. On 31 October 2005 he was finally proposed by the then Polish Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz as defense minister. He held this office, also in the subsequent Cabinet of Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, between December 2005 and February 2007.

Since autumn 2007, Sikorski is a member of the Liberal party Platforma Obywatelska that was in the parliamentary elections of 2007 the strongest force in the Sejm. November 10, 2007, he was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs of the first cabinet of Prime Minister Donald Tusk was announced. He held this position in Tusk's second cabinet. Sikorski competed in his party to run for the presidential election of 2010. However, he was defeated in the party 's internal ballot on March 27, 2010 to his rival candidate Bronisław Komorowski.

In February 2014, Sikorski was during the riots in Ukraine together with his counterpart Frank -Walter Steinmeier and Laurent Fabius to the official representatives of the European Union at the signing of an agreement between the Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and the representatives of the anti-government protesters on February 21, 2014. he warned opposition leaders present when they should not support this agreement, the Ukrainian government would give a state of emergency and they would all die ( "If you do not support this you'll have martial law, you'll have the army. You will all be dead ").

Sikorski is married to the American historian and Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Applebaum, with whom he has two children.

Publications

• The Polish House. The history of my country, European publishing house, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3- 434-50463 -X, 9783434504634 ( autobiography)
• Full circle. A homecoming to free Poland, Simon & Schuster, New York 1997, ISBN 0-684-81102-2
• Dust of the saints. A journey to Herat in time of war, Chatto & Windus, London, 1989, ISBN 0-7011-3436-4
• Moscow's Afghan was. Soviet motives and Western interests, the Institute for European Defence & Strategic Studies, London, 1987, ISBN 0-907967-85- X, 9780907967859