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The book In the Shadows is a collection of conversations between the famous Polish journalist Marcin Wojciechowski and Adam Rothfeld, a diplomat, scholar, and renowned expert in the field of international security. "In the Shadows" is Adam Rothfeld's authorial credo in international politics and modern history of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The author presents all the drama of the world history of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries through the prism of a double vision: "from below" - through the perspective of an ordinary person and witness of historical events, in particular, a young boy who was hidden from the Nazis during the Second World War by the Studite monks of the Univ Monastery near the town of Przemyslany in the Lviv region under the name of Adam Czerwinski, and "from above" - through the prism of a thoughtful researcher who monitors the political life of the planet or speaks from the rostrum of the UN headquarters as the head of the diplomatic service of a major European state. His political, unbiased and objective view is from the shadows of great figures: Pope John Paul II, J. Kolakowski, C. Milosz, R. Kapuscinski, Z. Bavman, H. Kissinger, H. Kohl, Charles de Gaulle, M. Gorbachev, and Y. Giedroyc, who were at the same time his equal intellectual partners and discussants, vividly illuminates the key concepts and trends of the modern globalised world, European and international security, and the system of the new world order.

In the Shadows is a sophisticated form of intelligent discussion with moral and political authorities of a bygone era, which is characteristic of Adam Daniel Rothfeld's individual style. The newest book by the famous diplomat is not only a summary of Professor Rothfeld's life's work, but also a notebook on the history of international relations in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

The book is intended for a wide range of readers, primarily for students, postgraduates, academics, politicians, media, NGOs, and all those interested in contemporary issues of international relations and geopolitics. Adam Daniel Rothfeld is a scholar, diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland in 2005, a recognised expert in the field of international security. He was born in 1938 in the town of Przemyslany, Lviv Oblast. He owes his saved life during the German occupation to the Blessed Klymenty Sheptytsky, brother of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, and the Greek Catholic monks of the Univ Monastery. Since 1968, he has worked at the Polish Institute of International Affairs in Warsaw. In the 1970s and 1980s, he was a member of the Polish delegation to OSCE conferences and meetings, and in 1991-2001, he was the director of the International Peace Research Institute in Stockholm. He is a member of the 12-member NATO Panel of the Wise, co-chair of the Polish-Russian group on complex historical issues. Adam Daniel Rothfeld is the author of more than 400 academic publications, including 10 books and more than 20 monographs. In 2005, Adam Rothfeld installed a memorial plaque in the Univ Monastery in gratitude for the rescue of the Sheptytsky brothers. He has received awards from many countries around the world, including the Polish-Ukrainian Association's Capitula Award (2007).