Przemysław Gasztold (Ph.D.) is a research fellow at the Historic Research Office of the Institute of National Remembrance in Warsaw and Assistant Professor at War Studies University in Warsaw, Department of Security Threats. He received his Ph.D. from Warsaw University, Faculty of Journalism and Political Science, in 2016. He is currently conducting research on Polish Intelligence, on relations between Poland and Global South, and on the ties between the Soviet bloc and international terrorism during the Cold War. Alumnus of US State Department Study of US Institutes on National Security Policymaking (University of Delaware, 2019). Author of 4 books and several dozen articles and chapters. His publications were published in English, French, German, Norwegian, Dutch and Albanian. Co-editor (with A. Hanni and T. Riegler) of Terrorism in the Cold War: State Involvement and Covert Operations. Volume 1: Eastern Europe and the Soviet Sphere of Influence; Volume 2: The West, the Middle East and Latin America, IB Tauris/Bloomsbury Publishing, London-New York 2020. Member of the „Need to know” intelligence conference’s organizing committee. Managing editor at the “Security & Defence Quarterly” (Poland) and member of the editorial board at „Komunizm: system–ludzie–dokumentacja” (Poland), and at the “National Security and the Future” (Croatia).
