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A. Nyzio - Surveillance in Poland A.D. 2021
15.11.2022
Each year the Polish Ministry of Justice and the Public Prosecutor General, as well as telecommunication and software companies, publish information concerning surveillance in Poland in the previous year. It is worth taking a closer look at statistics on obtaining user data, and wiretapping, to evaluate and illustrate forms, scale and trends of surveillance. As always with the clandestine activities carried out by the security apparatus, the information is scarce and often vague, and each incomplete answer is usually followed by a series of further questions and doubts.
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J. Niemiec - Turkey’s attitude towards Finland and Sweden’s NATO membership bids
08.11.2022
Russian military invasion of Ukraine prompted the governments of Finland and Sweden to declare their will to join NATO, thereby breaking the principle of neutrality in their foreign policies, which both countries had followed for over a hundred years. However, Turkey opposed the Finnish and Swedish candidacies, which significantly hampered the process of enlargement of the North Atlantic Alliance.
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P. Gorszewski - Reforms of the BND: Towards the internationalisation of jurisdiction in the context of protection against mass surveillance
18.10.2022
This analysis provides an overview of the recent reforms of the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND), ranging from the legislative changes in 2016 to the ruling of the Federal Constitutional Court in 2020 and the resulting legal and institutional changes. The main reason for comprehensive reforms of BND's activities was the so-called wiretapping scandal provoked by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). It prompted political decision makers in Berlin to undertake deeper structural reforms of intelligence. A ruling of the German Constitutional Court of 19 May 2020 was a key event in the reform process. The Court found the BND Act incompatible with the constitutionally established rights to secrecy of telecommunications and freedom of the press.
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A. Mazurkiewicz - Military identity: warriors from GROM
12.07.2022
This text is a part of a mini-series of KBN Analyses devoted to the concept of military identity. This time we will return to the already discussed traditional conceptualisation of the "warrior" identity, which such norms, attitudes, and values as courage and bravery, camaraderie and endurance, as well as discipline and obedience. One of the units that fit into many elements of this identity is the Polish Branch of Special Operations GROM, established in 1990. Although it might seem that the GROM Unit fully corresponds to all the traditional elements associated with the identity of a "warrior", there are also some differences. In the last part of the analysis, we will also compare GROM with one of the previously discussed groups - Australian "diggers".
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J. Grabowska - The environment as one of the factors shaping organizational culture of the Polish special services
07.07.2022
In Poland, sociological, anthropological and psychological perspectives in intelligence studies still have received little attention. Wrocław IPN's publication on the security apparatus of the communist Poland from the perspective of anthropology of organization and anthropology of power has opened a new chapter in the research under discussion.
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