Tadek Markiewicz is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Hugo Valentin Centre, University of Uppsala. He received his PhD (International Conflict Analysis) from the University of Kent. His research focuses on the role of vulnerability and victimhood in states’ security practices. These themes are investigated in his book (forthcoming) “The Vulnerability of Strong States: Ontological Insecurity as Warfare Practice”. Currently, Tadek is working on a project about memory politics in Poland.