Download or read book Poland s Foreign Policy in the 21st Century written by Stanisław Bieleń and published by . This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Poland s Foreign and Security Policy written by Ryszard Zięba and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-06 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses determinants and the evolution of Poland’s foreign and security policy in the changing international order. By studying historical, geopolitical and domestic factors, the author offers a better understanding of Poland’s national interests and sheds new light on its foreign relations with the USA, Russia and the European Union. Furthermore, the author also discusses Poland’s cooperation within international organisations, such as NATO and the EU.

Download or read book Poland s Foreign Policy After 1989 written by Roman Kuźniar and published by Budrich Unipress. This book was released on 2009 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first monograph that examines Polish foreign policy since 1989. Author Roman Kuzniar focuses on the main challenges of the period in question - regaining sovereignty and establishing a solid foundation for Poland's security, as well as Poland's economic and civilizational development. The successes in these areas made Poland regain the freedom to operate in the international arena. Kuzniar combined a regular lecture on foreign policy with his critical commentary. As Kuzniar states, "This book is concerned with the real foreign policy, i.e. the one that Poland has actually been pursuing (the "positive" policy rather than the postulated one). What this is not, then, is a study of accompanying concepts, options, criticisms or debate. While always interesting and at times fascinating, these threads are only referred to intermittently here."

Download or read book India Poland Relations in the 21st Century written by Vijay Sakhuja and published by Vij Books India. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transformative impacts of the end of the Cold War changed the course of India-Poland relations. Both countries have redefined their foreign policy priorities in the changing dynamics of globalization and new world order. India and Poland are celebrating 60 years of diplomatic relations in 2014 and over the years, their interactions have grown. This volume offers a comprehensive overview of India-Poland relations and explores new vistas for future cooperation.

Download or read book Poland s Memory Wars written by Jo Harper and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-20 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of essays and interviews by Polish, British, and American academics and journalists provides an overview of current Polish politics for both informed and non-specialist readers. The essays consider why and how PiS, Law and Justice, the party of Jarosław Kaczynski, returned to power, and the why and how of its policies while in power. They help to make sense of how “history” plays a key role in Polish public life and politics. The descriptions of PiS in Western media tend to rework old stereotypes about Eastern Europe that had lain dormant for some time. The book addresses the underlying question whether PiS was simply successful in understanding its electorate, and just helped Poland to revert to its normal state. This new Normal seems quite similar to the old one: insular, conservative, xenophobic, and statist. The book looks at the current struggle between one ‘Poland’ and another; between a Western-looking Poland and an inward-looking Poland, the former more interested in opening to the world, competing in open markets, and working within the EU, and the latter more concerned with holding onto tradition. The question of illiberalism has gone from an ‘Eastern’ problem (Russia, Turkey, Hungary, etc.) to a global one (Brexit and the U.S. elections). This makes the very specific analysis of Poland’s illiberalism applicable on a broader scale.

Download or read book The New Atlanticist written by Kerry Longhurst and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2007-02-20 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an authoritative account of Poland's emerging foreign and security policies and will contribute to an understanding of the foreign policy preferences of an enlarged EU. Evaluation of Poland as by far the largest and most vocal of all the countries joining the EU Exploration of Poland's strong support for US policy over Iraq, its military potential, its proven capacity to use armed force and its de facto role as a regional leader Argues that Poland will have a defining influence not only on the nature of transatlantic relations, but also on the EU's emerging international identity

Download or read book The United States and Poland written by Piotr Stefan Wandycz and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States and Poland adds a new dimension to the scholarship of America's international relations. Piotr Wandycz presents a comprehensive picture of the changing relationships between the United States and Poland over two hundred years. This work is, as Wandycz writes, both a survey and a synthesis. Because he believes that an understanding of the history of Poland is necessary in order to appreciate the complex nature of its involvement with the United States, he provides a thorough analysis of Poland's internal development, concentrating on the twentieth century. He also carefully places American-Polish history in the broader context of changing East-West relations. Finally, he speculates on the future between the two countries as detente unfolds and surprising happenings like the election of a Polish Pope occur. Ultimately, Wandycz acknowledges, the American-Polish relationship has been one-sided, even more so than is normal in contacts between great and small powers. "One must not imagine," he writes, "that Poland has been on the minds of American foreign policy makers consistently...but if one thinks of Poland in the context of East Central Europe, her significance increases dramatically." This book provides a necessary history and evaluation of a nation state once dominant in Europe and now searching for an appropriate role.

Download or read book Georgia s Foreign Policy in the 21st Century written by Tracey German and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-27 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The South Caucasus is the key strategic region between the Black Sea and Caspian Sea and the regional powers of Iran, Turkey and Russia and is the land bridge between Asia and Europe with vital hydrocarbon routes to international markets. This volume examines the resulting geopolitical positioning of Georgia, a pivotal state and lynchpin of the region, illustrating how and why Georgia's foreign policy is 'multi-vectored', facing potential challenges from Russia, int ernal and external nationalisms, the possible break-up of the European project and EU support and uncertainty over the US commitment to the traditional liberal international order.

Download or read book Georgia s Foreign Policy in the 21st Century written by Tracey German and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-27 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth analysis of Georgia's foreign policy.

Download or read book Poland and the Netherlands written by Duco Hellema and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poland and the Netherlands: A case study of European RelationsDuco Hellema, Ryszard Zelichowski, Bert van der Zwan (eds.)DIVS - ISL, 4(International Studies Library, 29)Dutch-Polish relations go back as far as the late Middle Ages. It is a history full of dramatic events, unexpected twists and serious rifts. This book focuses primarily on the relations between the Netherlands and Poland in the 20th century, an episode historiografically generally neglected compared to the earlier period.Today Poland and the Netherlands have developed full political, economic and cultural ties. Both countries enjoy as sovereign states equal membership of the EU and NATO. It took a long way to come so far. Because of political circumstances, largely driven by developments outside the two countries' control, it was not an easy way to go. International politics, especially the Second World War, the succeeding Cold War and the collapse of the Berlin Wall influenced bilateral contacts deeply. It makes the story of modern Dutch-Polish relations the more fascinating.Table of ContentsIntroduction1.Reflections on Polish-Dutch Relations in the 16th and 17th Centuries by Maria Bogucka2.Polish-Dutch Cultural Relations in the 17th and 18th Centuries by Wojciech Kriegseisen3.Poland and the Netherlands in the 19th century by Idesbald Goddeeris4.The Netherlands and Poland in the interwar years, 1919-1939 by Remco van Diepen5.The Two Governments-in-Exile in London by Magdalena Hu as6.Maczek's and Sosabowski's men: The Polish contribution to the liberation of the Netherlands by Ben Schoenmaker 7.The Cold War Years: 1945-1975 by Duco Hellema8.Different Degrees of Cold: Polish-Dutch relations 1945-1975 as seen from The Hague by Ryszard elichowski9.Impressions of crucial years: Poland, 1977-1980 by Edy Korthals Altes10."That Poland be Polish again"? Dutch policy on Poland, 1975-1989 by Floribert Baudet11.The authorities of the Polish People's Republic and human rights issues in the CSCE process by Wanda Jarz bek12.The Netherlands and Poland's accession to NATO: 1989-1999 by Duco Hellema and Lotte Kaatee13.Reaching for NATO Membership: Selected Issues and Personal Memories by Henryk Szlajfer14.The Netherlands and Poland's Accession to the European Union by Bianca Szytniewski and Mathieu Segers15.Six years of Polish membership of the European Union by Agnieszka CianciaraAbout the EditorsDuco Hellema is Professor of the History of International Relations at the History Institute of Utrecht University. He has published widely on Dutch foreign relations, the Cold War and the history of international relations in general. One of his recent books is: Dutch Foreign Policy. The Role of the Netherlands in World Politics (Dordrecht: Republic of Letters 2009).Ryszard elichowski (1946) graduated from Institute of History at Warsaw University and is Professor and Director for Research and Studies at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He teaches Dutch history and culture and publishes on small states and special territories. Bert van der Zwan (1956) studied History at Leiden University. He is head of the Historical Unit of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He had published about the history of international relations and Dutch foreign policy.

Download or read book Poland and the Netherlands written by Duco Hellema and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poland and the Netherlands: A case study of European RelationsDuco Hellema, Ryszard Zelichowski, Bert van der Zwan (eds.)DIVS - ISL, 4(International Studies Library, 29)Dutch-Polish relations go back as far as the late Middle Ages. It is a history full of dramatic events, unexpected twists and serious rifts. This book focuses primarily on the relations between the Netherlands and Poland in the 20th century, an episode historiografically generally neglected compared to the earlier period.Today Poland and the Netherlands have developed full political, economic and cultural ties. Both countries enjoy as sovereign states equal membership of the EU and NATO. It took a long way to come so far. Because of political circumstances, largely driven by developments outside the two countries' control, it was not an easy way to go. International politics, especially the Second World War, the succeeding Cold War and the collapse of the Berlin Wall influenced bilateral contacts deeply. It makes the story of modern Dutch-Polish relations the more fascinating.Table of ContentsIntroduction1.Reflections on Polish-Dutch Relations in the 16th and 17th Centuries by Maria Bogucka2.Polish-Dutch Cultural Relations in the 17th and 18th Centuries by Wojciech Kriegseisen3.Poland and the Netherlands in the 19th century by Idesbald Goddeeris4.The Netherlands and Poland in the interwar years, 1919-1939 by Remco van Diepen5.The Two Governments-in-Exile in London by Magdalena Hu as6.Maczek's and Sosabowski's men: The Polish contribution to the liberation of the Netherlands by Ben Schoenmaker 7.The Cold War Years: 1945-1975 by Duco Hellema8.Different Degrees of Cold: Polish-Dutch relations 1945-1975 as seen from The Hague by Ryszard elichowski9.Impressions of crucial years: Poland, 1977-1980 by Edy Korthals Altes10."That Poland be Polish again"? Dutch policy on Poland, 1975-1989 by Floribert Baudet11.The authorities of the Polish People's Republic and human rights issues in the CSCE process by Wanda Jarz bek12.The Netherlands and Poland's accession to NATO: 1989-1999 by Duco Hellema and Lotte Kaatee13.Reaching for NATO Membership: Selected Issues and Personal Memories by Henryk Szlajfer14.The Netherlands and Poland's Accession to the European Union by Bianca Szytniewski and Mathieu Segers15.Six years of Polish membership of the European Union by Agnieszka CianciaraAbout the EditorsDuco Hellema is Professor of the History of International Relations at the History Institute of Utrecht University. He has published widely on Dutch foreign relations, the Cold War and the history of international relations in general. One of his recent books is: Dutch Foreign Policy. The Role of the Netherlands in World Politics (Dordrecht: Republic of Letters 2009).Ryszard elichowski (1946) graduated from Institute of History at Warsaw University and is Professor and Director for Research and Studies at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He teaches Dutch history and culture and publishes on small states and special territories. Bert van der Zwan (1956) studied History at Leiden University. He is head of the Historical Unit of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He had published about the history of international relations and Dutch foreign policy.

Download or read book Wars and Betweenness written by Bojan Aleksov and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The region between the Baltic and the Black Sea was marked by a set of crises and conflicts in the 1920s and 1930s, demonstrating the diplomatic, military, economic or cultural engagement of France, Germany, Russia, Britain, Italy and Japan in this highly volatile region, and critically damaging the fragile post-Versailles political arrangement. The editors, in naming this region as "Middle Europe" seek to revive the symbolic geography of the time and accentuate its position, situated between Big Powers and two World Wars. The ten case studies in this book combine traditional diplomatic history with a broader emphasis on the geopolitical aspects of Big-Power rivalry to understand the interwar period. The essays claim that the European Big Powers played a key role in regional affairs by keeping the local conflicts and national movements under control and by exploiting the region's natural resources and military dependencies, while at the same time strengthening their prestige through cultural penetration and the cultivation of client networks. The authors, however, want to avoid the simplistic view that the Big Powers fully dominated the lesser players on the European stage. The relationship was indeed hierarchical, but the essays also reveal how the "small states" manipulated Big-Power disagreements, highlighting the limits of the latters' leverage throughout the 1920s and the 1930s.

Download or read book Soviet Soft Power in Poland written by Patryk Babiracki and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concentrating on the formative years of the Cold War from 1943 to 1957, Patryk Babiracki reveals little-known Soviet efforts to build a postwar East European empire through culture. Babiracki argues that the Soviets involved in foreign cultural outreach tried to use "soft power" in order to galvanize broad support for the postwar order in the emerging Soviet bloc. Populated with compelling characters ranging from artists, writers, journalists, and scientists to party and government functionaries, this work illuminates the behind-the-scenes schemes of the Stalinist international propaganda machine. Based on exhaustive research in Russian and Polish archives, Babiracki's study is the first in any language to examine the two-way interactions between Soviet and Polish propagandists and to evaluate their attempts at cultural cooperation. Babiracki shows that the Stalinist system ultimately undermined Soviet efforts to secure popular legitimacy abroad through persuasive propaganda. He also highlights the limitations and contradictions of Soviet international cultural outreach, which help explain why the Soviet empire in Eastern Europe crumbled so easily after less than a half-century of existence.

Download or read book Europe s Growth Champion written by Marcin Piatkowski and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes countries rich? What makes countries poor? Europe's Growth Champion: Insights from the Economic Rise of Poland seeks to answer these questions, and many more, through a study of one of the biggest, and least heard about, economic success stories. Over the last twenty-five years Poland has transitioned from a perennially backward, poor, and peripheral country to unexpectedly join the ranks of the world's high income countries. Europe's Growth Champion is about the lessons learned from Poland's remarkable experience, the conditions that keep countries poor, and the challenges that countries need to face in order to grow. It defines a new growth model that Poland and its Eastern European peers need to adopt to grow and catch up with their Western counterparts. Poland's economic rise emphasizes the importance of the fundamental sources of growth- institutions, culture, ideas, and leaders- in economic development. It demonstrates that a shift from an extractive society, where the few rule for the benefit of the few, to an inclusive society, where many rule for the benefit of many, can be the key to economic success. *IEurope's Growth Champion asserts that a newly emerged inclusive society will support further convergence of Poland and the rest of Central and Eastern Europe with the West, and help to sustain the region's Golden Age. It also acknowledges the future challenges that Poland faces, and that moving to the core of the European economy will require further reforms and changes in Poland's developmental character.

Download or read book Global Allies written by Michael Wesley and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2017-06-28 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global system of alliances that the United States built after the Second World War underpinned the stability and prosperity of the postwar order. But during the 20th century, the multilateral NATO alliance system in Europe and the bilateral San Francisco alliance system in Asia rarely interacted. This changed in the early 21st century, as US allies came together to fight and stabilise conflicts in the Middle East and Central Asia. This volume presents the first-ever comparative study of US alliances in Europe and Asia from the perspectives of US allies: the challenges, opportunities and shifting dynamics of these fundamental pillars of order. This volume is essential reading for those interested in contemporary and future regional and global security dynamics.

Download or read book The Armed Forces of Poland in the West 1939 46 written by Michael Alfred Peszke and published by Helion Studies in Military His. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph focuses on the strategic concepts, planning and the limited success of the Polish military, leading up to the British Guarantee of March, 1939 and then throughout the Second World War. The monograph discusses the valuable contribution of the Polish Military to its two Western allies, France and the United Kingdom leading up to the war, and the respite they received due to Poland's spirited defense that degraded German offensive capability by at least half a year. Recreated in France, the Polish Military conceptualized a liberation policy of encouraging both France and the United Kingdom to undertake a Balkan Strategy to Poland's freedom. Polish relations, with Hungary in particular, and Romania, while British relations with Greece and Turkey, made this a promising policy option. In early 1941, Britain did send troops to aid Greece and the Poles were also about to send their Middle East-based force to Greece. This Balkan" strategy" was strongly shared and espoused by Churchill and on the British planning table till late Summer 1944 when the Americans prevailed in landing forces in the south of France, rather than pushing north in Italy and possibly putting forces across the Adriatic into friendly Croatia and Slovenia. This American policy was undoubtedly due to the pressures of finalizing the European war as soon as possible to get on with the war against Japan, and possibly also influenced by the American foreign policy of accommodating Stalin, who did not want Western Allies in his bailiwick. One of the minor successes was an air supply link to the Polish Underground Forces but its capacity did not meet the needs or expectations. Attempts to reconcile with the Soviets failed to materialize any benefits to the Polish cause, but Polish forces extracted from the Soviets by agreements between Churchill and Stalin, were prized by the British and strengthened British capability in the Middle East. Following the Tehran Conference Polish strategic planning became irrelevant as at the same time the actual strength of the Polish Armed Forces and their professionalism increased. When in early 1945 Churchill asked his staffs for a possible military operation to push the Soviets back out of Poland - Operation Unthinkable, the Polish military in the West and potential clandestine forces in Poland became a major asset. This plan was not supported by the Americans or the important segment of the British coalition Government - the Labor Party, and further events in 1945 lead to the decline in influence once enjoyed by the Polish military in the West. Michael Peszke was born in 1932 in Deblin Garrison, Polish Air Force Academy, where his father was on the faculty. He left Poland on September 17 1939 following the German and Soviet Invasions. In July 1941, after an Atlantic crossing at the height of the Battle of the Atlantic, he joined up with his father who was Polish liaison officer in RAF Training Command, and then in the Air Force planning Section of the Polish Commander in Chief in London. These experiences and many talks with his father led to a lifelong interest in and research into Polish military history and numerous publications. On arriving in the UK he enrolled in Saint Joseph's College, Dumfries, followed by two years at John Fisher School in Purley, Surrey, and in 1950 was accepted to Trinity College, Dublin University and its School of Medicine, qualifying in 1956. Postgraduate studies followed in the United States. The author retired from academic life in 1999 and is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut, USA; Emeritus Member of the American College of Psychiatrists; Distinguished Life Member of the American Psychiatric Association; Member of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America; Member, Royal United Service Institute, London.

Download or read book Poland and South Asia written by Rajendra K. Jain and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: