Władysław Bułhak, Ph.D., Habil. – Habilitation degree in social sciences in the field of security studies (2019); Ph.D. in the humanities in the field of history (1998). Research and teaching staff member at the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies, University of Warsaw; previously, among other roles, an expert at the Center for Eastern Studies, a Polish Press Agency (PAP) correspondent in Moscow, an expert at the Polish Institute of International Affairs, and Deputy Director of the Office of Public Education at the Institute of National Remembrance (2000–2006, 2011–2016), and a research fellow at the Institute of National Remembrance’s Office of Historical Research. Visiting professor at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense (2019). Lecturer at Collegium Civitas and the Faculty of Artes Liberales at the University of Warsaw (2021–2022). Organizer and participant in dozens of international academic conferences, primarily focused on intelligence issues. Coordinator of the “Need to Know” project (a series of thirteen international conferences on intelligence issues from 2011 to 2024). Deputy editor-in-chief of the annual journal *Aparat Represji w Polsce Ludowej* (40 points from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education). Member of the program and scientific committees of the Zagreb Security Forum.
Research interests
Currently: Security studies. Intelligence studies—both contemporary and historical. Social aspects of intelligence and covert operations (community-supported intelligence). Methods of intelligence and counterintelligence operations. Research on intelligence (methodological aspects). Previously: Geopolitics, diplomacy, and international relations. The Polish question in the geopolitical thinking of Russian elites, particularly Russian democrats. Russia in the political thinking of Polish liberals and nationalists. Operational planning of the Warsaw Pact forces.