| 来源类型 | Article
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| 规范类型 | 评论
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| Swashbuckling Scholar |
| Richard Morin; Claudia Deane
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| 发表日期 | 2002-02-12
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| 出版年 | 2002
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Newly appointed American Enterprise Institute scholar Radek Sikorski is just what this town needs: an accomplished thinker who’s handy with a Kalashnikov and a politically incorrect quip. And if that weren’t enough, Sikorski’s made-for-the-movies life also featured adventures as: * A teenage Solidarity activist. * A war correspondent who occasionally wielded a Kalashnikov rifle in Afghanistan, back when Afghanistan was Russia’s problem. (His photo of an Afghan family killed in a Soviet bombing raid won a World Press Photo Award in 1988.) * Poland’s deputy minister of defense and deputy minister of foreign affairs, in which capacity he officially castigated Ted Turner for making a disrespectful Polish joke. “Turner had to apologize,” Sikorski said. * A political refugee in the United Kingdom and self-described “Thatcherite.” He’s also chairman of Poland’s Committee to Honor President Ronald Reagan. Oh, and Sikorski’s all of 38. Seems like his new job as resident fellow and executive director of AEI’s New Atlantic Initiative might feel a bit tame. “On the contrary,” he said in a recent e-mail from Poland. “I loved representing my country but after almost four years I was beginning to feel myself turning into a filing cabinet. I shall enjoy the liberty of being able to speak my mind.” The New Atlantic initiative, Sikorski said, plans to focus on continued NATO enlargement, encouragement of Russia’s democratic ties, and increased free trade between Europe and the Americas. But why AEI? Sikorski says it was the obvious choice: “In Poland we also do not forget who stood by us when we were downtrodden on the other side of the Iron Curtain. I will be honored to become a colleague of heroic figures of that time such as [AEI scholars] Jeane Kirkpatrick and Richard Perle.” Sikorski and wife Anne Applebaum, a native Washingtonian who made a name for herself in British journalism, “have a reputation for politically incorrect social mischief,” according to a 1994 Washington Post profile of Applebaum. The couple arrives this spring. We can’t wait. |
| 主题 | Foreign and Defense Policy
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| URL | https://www.aei.org/articles/swashbuckling-scholar/
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| 来源智库 | American Enterprise Institute (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/237771
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Richard Morin,Claudia Deane. Swashbuckling Scholar. 2002.
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