Former deputy foreign minister of Poland, Radek Sikorski, is joining the American Enterprise Institute as a resident fellow and executive director of the New Atlantic Initiative, American Enterprise Institute (AEI) president, Christopher DeMuth announced today, saying, "We are delighted that an individual of Radek Sikorski's political achievements and intellectual distinction would be joining AEI and leading the New Atlantic Initiative." 

Mr. Sikorski was secretary of foreign affairs of Solidarity's political party, which governed Poland from 1997 to 2001, and Poland's deputy minister of foreign affairs from 1998 to 2001. Earlier, in 1992, Mr. Sikorski had also served as deputy minister of defense after returning to his country from the United Kingdom where he was a political refugee from 1981 to 1989. 

Prior to his government service, Mr. Sikorski was a war correspondent in Afghanistan and Angola from 1986 to 1989, a roving correspondent for National Review from 1989 to 1997, and News Corporation's Polish representative from 1989 to 1992. 

Mr. Sikorski's books and monographs include Russia's Afghan War, The Polish House: An Intimate History of Poland, and Dust of the Saints: A Journey to Herat in Time of War. 

At AEI, Mr. Sikorski will head the New Atlantic Initiative, an international nonpartisan program dedicated to bringing together Americans and Europeans, and to the discussion of issues of interest to the Atlantic community. Areas include further enlargement of NATO, integrating Russia in the family of democratic nations and the establishment of free trade between the European Union (EU) and the North American Free Trade area. 

Mr. Sikorski received a bachelor of arts and a master of arts degrees from Oxford University (U.K.) in philosophy, politics and economics. He is married to the writer and journalist Anne Applebaum whose history of the Soviet gulag will be published next year in eight countries, including the US.