Michał Wojnowski

• scholarship holder of the Lanckoroński Foundation in 2010 (stay at the Institut für Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik der Universität Wien);
• former specialist at the Institute of National Remembrance;
• former Internal Security Agency analyst;
• former expert of the Department of National Security of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister;
• former social expert cooperating with the Government Security Centre;
• former member of the State Commission for the Study of Russian Influence on the Internal Security of the Republic of Poland in 2007–2022.

Monographs:

1. Tools of Russian Imperialism. Studies on the Origins, Evolution, and Role of Active Measures in the Kremlin’s Foreign Policy in the 20th and 21st Centuries, IH PAN Publishing House, Warsaw, 2024.
2. The Cavalry in the Army of the Byzantine Empire from the 8th to the Early 13th Century. Military Role and Social Significance, Napoleon V Publishing House, Oświęcim, 2014.

Collective works edited by:

• “Engineers of Consciousness. The Moscow Methodological Circle as a Russian School of Social Manipulation”, in: Methods and Means of Influence of Empires: Ideology and Political Practice of the Russian/Soviet/Russian State in the Years 1689–2022, ed. A. Nowak, co-authored by Ł. Dryblak, IH PAN Publishing House, Warsaw, 2024, pp. 260–291.
• “The Role of Religion in the Army of the Byzantine Empire in the Light of Military Treaties”, in: Religion. Private and Public Dimensions, eds. P. Nowakowski, W. Szymborski, Wydawnictwo Księgarnia Akademicka, Cracow, 2007, pp. 63–82.

Reports:

• Racial Conflicts Created by the Russian Security Authorities in USA. Goals, Means, and Methods of Russian Intelligence Agencies for Provoking Racial Conflicts in the United States. The Case of the African American Community. Part I. The Interwar Period, Warsaw Institute, Warsaw, 2021.
• US Democracy as the Target of Russian Secret Services. Part I. Soviet Means for Intervening in Election Campaign and Vote in the United States During the Cold War, Warsaw Institute, Warsaw, 2021.
• US Democracy as the Target of Russian Secret Services. Part II. Russian Interference in the US Presidential Elections in 2016 and 2020 as an Attempt to Implement a Revolution-like Information Warfare Scheme, Warsaw Institute, Warsaw, 2021.

Articles:

1. “Forced Migration Engineering as a Security Threat to NATO Member States. Forecasts and Recommendations”, in: Overview of Strategic Challenges. Threats from the War in Ukraine, Polish Grand Project Foundation, Warsaw, 2024, pp. 65–87.
2. “The Genesis, Theory, and Practice of Russian Coercive Migration Engineering. A Contribution to the Study of the Migration Crisis on NATO’s Eastern Flank, Internal Security Review, no. 26 (2022), pp. 263–300.
3. “Presidential Elections as a State Destabilization Tool in the Theory and Practice of the Russian Info-Psychological Operations in the 20th and 21st Century, Internal Security Review, no. 21 (2019), pp. 311–344.
4. “Terrorism serving geopolitics The Russian-Ukrainian Conflict as an Example of the Implementation of Aleksandr Dugin’s Geopolitical Doctrine and Evgeny Messner’s Concept of ‘Rebel War’”, no. 2 (2017), pp. 86–122.
5. “Paradigm of War and Peace. The Role and Significance of Dialectical Materialism in the Russian Military Science of the 21th Century”, Internal Security Review, no. 17 (2017), pp. 273–306.
6. “The Annexation of the Crimean Peninsula in the Light of the GRU Special Operations Theory”, Secretum. Special Services, Security, Information, no. 1, issue 2 (2015), pp. 99–119.
7. “Alexander Dughin şi ‘Ministerele de forţă’ but Federaţiei Ruse – contribuţie la studul privind utilizarea geopoliticii de către serviciile speciale civile şi militare în Rusia modernă”, Revista Intelligence, no. 29 (2015), pp. 24–40.
8. “Terorismul servind scopuri geopolitice. Conflictul ruso-ucrainean ca exemplu al doctrinei lui Aleksandr Dugin ș i conceptului lui Evgeny Messner de R ă zbol Rebel”, Revista Română de Studii de Intelligence, no. 14 (2015), pp. 15–61.
9. “Terrorism serving Geopolitics. The Russian-Ukrainian Conflict as an Example of the Implementation of Alexander Dugin’s Geopolitical Doctrine and Evgeny Messner Concept of Rebel War”, Romanian Intelligence Studies Review, no. 14 (2015), pp. 15-61.
10. “The Myth of ‘Hybrid War.’ The Conflict on the Territory of Ukraine in the Light of Russian Military Thought of the 19th–21st Centuries”, Internal Security Review. Special Issue: Hybrid War, ed. Z. Nawrocki, Warsaw, 2015, pp. 7–39.
11. “The concept of ‘new generation war’ from the perspective of strategists of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation”, Internal Security Review, no. 13 (2015), pp. 13–40.
12. “Aleksandr Dugin and the Power Ministries of the Russian Federation. A Contribution to Research on the Use of Geopolitics by Civil and Military Special Services in Contemporary Russia”, Przegląd Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego, no. 10 (2014), pp. 11–37.
13. “Periodic Revival or Continuation of the Ancient Military Tradition? Another Look at the Question of the Κατάφρακτοι in the Byzantine Army”, Studia Ceranea, no. 2 (2012), pp. 195–220.
14. “The role of religion in the army of the Byzantine Empire in the light of military treaties”, Przegląd Historyczny, no. 100, issue 2 (2009), pp. 189–205.
15. “Κατάφρακτοι – the heavy-armed cavalry of the Byzantine Empire as a continuation of the ancient cataphracti and clibanarii”, Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego. Prace Historyczne, no. 132 (2005), pp. 7–22.