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Juliette Bretan

Cambridge, England, Lincolnshire, Warsaw
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Covers:  Poland and Central Eastern Europe, politics and culture.
Researcher, writer, and broadcaster on Poland, East-Central Europe, and Britain. In @newsweek, @prospect_uk, @theipaper etc. Teaching at Cambridge.

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Academic, writer, and broadcaster on East-Central Europe, culture, history, and politics. Words in The TLS, The Public Domain Review and more; on BBC Radio 3.

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Gdynia and the dream of a maritime Poland

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By Juliette Bretan
| Engelsberg Ideas
The penultimate point in Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points for peace negotiations to end the First World War was the most idealised of its goals. It called for an independent Polish state to be created, and not, as the eminent Polish-American historian Piotr Wandycz notes, resurrected – and certainly not ‘based on historical principles’, mapped on to the old Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth that had been erased from the European map in 1795. This would be a new Poland.
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Poland has long been vital for Britain’s security

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By Juliette Bretan
| The Spectator Australia Verified
Starter for ten: why did Britain declare war on Nazi Germany 87 years ago this month? If you answered ‘to defend Poland as a result of a British-Polish alliance’, you’d be partly right. I’ll get to that in a minute, but first let’s think about the roots of that decision. After all, what a remarkably strange decision it was to ally with Poland. Britain had neither diplomatic ties nor longstanding friendship nor geographic closeness to the country, nor much appetite for acquiring any closeness to it.
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Inside Putin’s growing threat to the Baltics

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By Juliette Bretan
| MSN Australia Verified
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