RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Political history of Poland and Europe in the 19th and 20th century, history of Europe in “long duration”; the First World War – its causes, character and consequences; Polish-French relations during the First World War and the interwar period, in terms of the military and politics; history of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

• Formation et décomposition des États en Europe au 20e siècle. Formation and Disintegration of European States in the 20th Century, Bruxelles 2012 (ed., with A. Fleury, F. Knipping, D. Kovac)
• 1956. European and Global Perspective, Leipzig 2006 (ed., with C. Fink, F. Hadler)
• L’Europe au XXe siècle. Éléments pour un bilan, Poznań 2000 (ed.)
• Historia powszechna. Wiek XX [Universal History. 20th Century], Poznań 1999, 2001, 2008
• Francuskie misje wojskowe w państwach Europy Środkowej 1919-1938 [French military missions in the Central European Countries 1919-1938], Poznań 1987
• Historycy francuscy o genezie Wielkiej Wojny [French Historians on Genesis of the Great War], Poznań 1984

MEMBERSHIP IN SCHOLARLY INSTITUTIONS IN POLAND AND ABROAD:

• Member of the Central Committee on Scientific Degrees and Titles
• The Polish Historical Society (member of the Board)
• The Poznan Society of Friends of Sciences
• Association Internationale d’Histoire Contemporaine de l’Europe (vice-president)
• Commission d’Histoire des Relations Internationales