Current Polish foreign policy towards Poland’s eastern neighbour states: Russia, Belarus, Ukraine (October 2004 – February 2005)

Type :

Presentation

Pages :

10 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

01/16/2009

Category :

Political science

Sub category :

International relations

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Summary :

Ukraine: The Orange revolution, a great opportunity for Poland to take the lead in the region.
1. Main features of Polish-Ukrainians relations since 1991.
2. The Orange Revolution and the Polish involvement.
3. The Orange Revolution's bitter taste.
Belarus: The new Polish bet.
1. The issue of the Polish minority in Belarus.
2. Poland against Lukashenko's regime.
Russia: Goliath defeated?
1. Polish-Russian relations - past and present : A general outline.
2. The year 2005 : Under the sign of misunderstanding.
Biliography.

Abstract

poland has always lied at the crossroads of Europe, as suggested by the title of one of Norman Davies' famous history books Heart of Europe. Intermediate between the West and the East; buffer state; ally or enemy of the main European powers, poland was once a very powerful country whose territory extended as far as the Black Sea. towards the end of the 18th century, the polish state had to overcome three subsequent partitions which finally led to the downfall: A hundred and twenty three years of complete disappearance from the map of Europe (1795 -1918). As a result of a common Slavic cultural heritage and tightly interwoven history - of which one mustn't forget fifty years of « communist rule » during the Cold War - poland has had throughout the past decades a specific relation to its eastern-neighbour countries, namely russia, belarus and ukraine. Of these three states, russia has always stood as the most powerful one, greatly feared by the Poles. Since the collapse of the USSR and with it of the Russian domination over eastern Europe, poland has conducted a very Western-oriented foreign policy, joining NATO (in 1999) and - later on - the European Union (on 1rst of May 2004).