Poland's foreign policy WP-SM-PPZw

POLISH FOREIGN POLICY

Brief course description.

Level of the course:

Aim of the course: acquisition of knowledge about the Polish foreign policy in years 1945-89,1989-2010;

Entry requirements: basic knowledge of the history of Poland and current international situation;

Full course description.

Subject matter of classes:
1. Historical introduction;
1. 1. The foreign policy of the I Republic of Poland (struggle with Russia for supremacy in the Central and Eastern Europe);
1. 2. The foreign policy of the II Republic of Poland (Westphalian order and its enemies);
2. Traditions of the Polish foreign policy.
2.1. The realism of Roman Dmowski (anti-Romantic criticism of the foreign policy of the aristocratic Republic of Poland;
2. 2. The idealism of Józef Piłsudski (the federation concept and the Prometheanism);
The policy of balance ( Polish foreign policy in the thirties of the twentieth century);
The foreign policy of the Polish People's Republic (the beginnings of the postwar statehood, Gomulka's policy, Polish People's Republic, the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe process, the foreign policy of the period of martial law);
3. The foreign policy of the III Republic of Poland;
3. 1. 1 Historical overview;
3. 1. 2. Recovering of sovereignty as the result of the end of the Cold War struggles (post-Cold War international situation as the basic condition of the Polish foreign policy);
Polish road to NATO and to the EU (Polish foreign policy until 2004);
3. 2. The legal and the constitutional conditions (power, institutions, structures, political disputes concerning the competences;
3. 3. Non- diplomatic instruments of the Polish foreign policy;
Polish foreign policy, and the international institutions;
3. 4. The European Union;
3. 4. 1. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization;
3. 4. 2. The Visegrad Group, and the Polish role in Central Europe;
3. 4. 3. The United Nations Organization, The Council of Europe;
3. 4. 4. The organizations for economic cooperation;
3. 5. Bilateral relations:
3. 5. 1. Polish- German relations;
3. 5. 2. Polish- Russian relations ;
3. 5. 3. Polish- Ukrainian relations and Polish- Belarussian relations;
3. 5. 4. Polish- American relations;
3. 5. 5. Polish-French relations;

Assessment methods : written examinations/ oral examinations
(credit classes with the final mark);

Bibliography:
The lectures,
The Yearbooks of Polish Foreign Policy,
The news conveyed through the media.