Piotr Ostaszewski (born 5 April 1964,

Żyrardów Żyrardów is a town and former industrial hub in central Poland with approximately 41,400 inhabitants (2006). It is the capital of Żyrardów County situated in the Masovian Voivodeship (since 1999); previously, it was in Skierniewice Voivodeshi ...

) is a Polish historian, political scientist and translator. Since 24 September 2017 serving as an ambassador to

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...

Life

Piotr Ostaszewski was born on 5 April 1964 in Żyrardów. Ostaszewski sat for an M.A. and Ph.D. in history at the

University of Warsaw The University of Warsaw ( pl, Uniwersytet Warszawski, la, Universitas Varsoviensis) is a public university in Warsaw, Poland. Established in 1816, it is the largest institution of higher learning in the country offering 37 different fields of ...

respectively in 1990 and 1998 for his

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on Harry S. Truman's policy toward Vietnam. In 2004 he attained a

post-doctoral degree A doctorate (from Latin ''docere'', "to teach"), doctor's degree (from Latin ''doctor'', "teacher"), or doctoral degree is an academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism ''li ...

at the

Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań The Adam Mickiewicz University ( pl, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu; Latin: ''Universitas Studiorum Mickiewicziana Posnaniensis'') is a research university in Poznań, Poland. It traces its origins to 1611, when under the Royal Ch ...

. In 2013 he became a

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. He specializes in 20th-century international relations in Asia. Between 1990 and 2000 he worked at the University of Warsaw American Studies Center. In 2000 he has been

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Kent State University Kent State University (KSU) is a public research university in Kent, Ohio. The university also includes seven regional campuses in Northeast Ohio and additional facilities in the region and internationally. Regional campuses are located in As ...

giving lectures on the US-China modern relations and modern

history of Cambodia The history of Cambodia, a country in mainland Southeast Asia, can be traced back to Indian civilization. Detailed records of a political structure on the territory of what is now Cambodia first appear in Chinese annals in reference to Funan, a ...

. In 2000 he became lecturer at the

Warsaw School of Economics SGH Warsaw School of Economics ( pl, Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie, ''SGH''vice-rector A rector (Latin for 'ruler') is a senior official in an educational institution, and can refer to an official in either a university or a secondary school. Outside the English-speaking world the rector is often the most senior official in a un ...

for teaching and student affairs. On 24 September 2017 she was appointed ambassador to

. He is married. He has no children. He speaks

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and

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Works

Books

* ''Amerykańska wojna w Wietnamie, 1965–1973, w opinii dwóch pokoleń społeczeństwa polskiego'', Warszawa: Ośrodek Studiów Amerykańskich. Uniwersytet Warszawski, 1999. * ''Wietnam: najdłuższy konflikt powojennego świata 1945–1975'', Warszawa: Wydawnictwo DiG, 2000. * ''Kambodża: zapomniana wojna 1970–1975: (dojście Czerwonych Khmerów do władzy)'', Toruń: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek, 2003. * ''Międzynarodowe stosunki polityczne: zarys wykładów'', Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Książka i Wiedza, 2008, 2010. * ''Laos: konflikt wewnętrzny i międzynarodowy 1945–1975'', Toruń: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek, 2011. * ''Chińska Republika Ludowa we współczesnych stosunkach międzynarodowych'' (ed.), Warszawa: Szkoła Główna Handlowa - Oficyna Wydawnicza, 2011.

Translations

Maldwyn Jones Maldwyn Allen Jones (18 December 1922 – 12 April 2007) was a historian who specialised in American history. Jones studied at Jesus College, Oxford, from 1946 to 1949, obtaining a first-class degree in history. He was a lecturer at Manchester Un ...

, ''Historia USA'', Gdańsk: Marabut 2002, 2003. *

John Lewis Gaddis John Lewis Gaddis (born 1941) is an American international relations scholar, military historian, and writer. He is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University. He is best known for his work on the Cold War an ...

, ''Strategie powstrzymywania: analiza polityki bezpieczeństwa narodowego Stanów Zjednoczonych w okresie zimnej wojny'', Warszawa: Książka i Wiedza, 2007. *

David Owen David Anthony Llewellyn Owen, Baron Owen, (born 2 July 1938) is a British politician and physician who served as Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs as a Labour Party (UK), Labour Party MP under James Callaghan from 1977 t ...

, ''Chorzy u władzy: sekrety przywódców politycznych ostatnich stu lat'', Warszawa: PIW, 2013.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ostaszewski, Piotr 1964 births Ambassadors of Poland to South Korea English–Polish translators Living people People from Żyrardów 20th-century Polish historians Polish male non-fiction writers Polish political scientists University of Warsaw alumni Academic staff of the University of Warsaw SGH Warsaw School of Economics alumni