ebook Poland's Foreign Policy after 1989 Roman Kuźniar

Wydawca: Scholar

Rok wydania: 2009

The first monograph about the Polish foreign policy after 1989. Roman Kuźniar focuses on the main challenges of the period in question: regaining sovereignty and establishing a solid foundation for Poland’s security as well as economic and civilisational development. The successes in these areas made Poland regain the freedom to operate in the international arena. The author combined a regular lecture on foreign policy with his critical commentary.
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 (Roman Kuźniar).

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INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

I. POLAND’S FOREIGN POLICY BEFORE 1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
1. The Foreign Policy of the Second Republic of Poland . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2. The External Relations of the People’s Republic of Poland. . . . . . . .. 23
3. Foreign Policy in the Programmes of the Democratic Opposition. . . .......36

II. 1989–1992: REGAINING SOVEREIGNTY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
1. An International Turning Point: The 1989 Spring of Nations . . . . . .... 43
Internal Transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Transforming the Basics of Poland’s Foreign Policy. . . . . . . . . . . .... 52
The First Important Steps. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . 58
2. The European Direction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Bilateral Relations with Western European States. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 64
Association with the European Communities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 70
3. Central-Eastern Europe. The New Regionalism and Relations
with the East . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 76
The Renaissance of Central Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
The Third Republic’s Policy Towards the East . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
4. Security During Transition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
The CSCE in Poland’s Security Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Development of Relations with the USA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
NATO. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
5. Other Challenges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

III. SECURITY: THE BATTLE FOR THE ATLANTIC, 1993–1998. . . . . . . . . . ... 125
1. Security First . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . 125
The Battle for NATO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...... . 126
Other Aspects of Foreign Security Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
2. European Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Struggle for the Right to EU Membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Bilateral Relations with Selected Western European Countries . . . ..........161
3. Policy Towards Central and Eastern Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Policy Towards the Post-Soviet Union Countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 170
Policy Towards the Changing Central Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Bilateral Relations with the Countries of the Region . . . . . . . . . . ... 183
4. Other Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Poland in the UN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Poland’s External Economic Relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

IV. EUROPE, EUROPE – POLAND ENTERS THE EU, 1998–2002 . . . . . . . . . ..... 204
1. Accession to the European Union . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
EU’s Preparation for the Enlargement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Membership Negotiations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 209
How Much Poland in What EU? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Bilateral Relations with EU Member States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
2. Security: Poland Stretches Its Wings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
New Poland in the Changed Alliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
“Mature Strategic Partnership” with the USA? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Other Security Policy Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
3. Improving Relations with the East . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Better Atmosphere in Relations with Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Sisyphean Labour in Relations with Ukraine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
No Change in Relations with Belarus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 271
Gentle Twilight of Central Europe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
4. Other Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Non-European Countries in Poland’s Foreign Policy . . . . . . . . . . ...... 278
Poland’s Involvement in the UN Reform Initiatives . . . . . . . . . . . .... 283
Foreign Economic Policy – Initial Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 288

V. TRAPS IN THE FIGHT FOR A STRONG POSITION, 2003–2007 . . . . . . . . . . ..294
1. The New Context to the Foreign Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
2. Poland in the EU – Lacking Both Vision and Allies . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
3. Towards the Americanisation of Poland’s Security Policy. . . . . . . . .. 324
4. The Eastern Policy – Prometheism in Reverse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

CLOSING: A DIFFICULT FREEDOM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

EPILOGUE, OR A RETURN TO NORMALCY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369