The competition was addressed to the authors of the best doctoral, master’s and bachelor’s theses on state security in the context of intelligence, terrorist and economic threats.

The head of the Internal Security Agency did not award the 1st prize in the category of doctoral dissertations. The second prize was awarded to Dr Jacek Wojciechowski from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń for the trial The crime of electoral corruption in Polish criminal law (Article 250A of the Polish Penal Code).

In the category of master’s and bachelor’s theses, the winner was Izabela Dąbrowska from the Military Department of the Academy of Martial Arts for her master’s thesis Operational masking (maskirovka) as the Russian ability to surprise the opponent, written under the supervision of Col. Dr Eng. Krzysztof Wysocki.

The second prize in this category was awarded to Monika Stachoń from the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Warsaw for her MA thesis Coup d’état in Iran in 1953 as an example of a secret operation of the intelligence services of Great Britain and the United States, written under the supervision of Dr Zbigniew Siemiątkowski.