Polish Foreign Policy 4003-EU-L36-PZP

Poland in 1989 regained her sovereingty. Later the country fulfilled its strategic goals "anchoring" into the Western institutional framework (Council of Europe, OECD, NATO, the EU).

The crucial aim of this course is to allow the students to reckognize the crucial Polish Foreign Policy directions, followed by challenges and dilemmas behind it. Poland it too weak to stand alone or to have her own global policy. Thus, and this is a second major aim of this course, one need to find a proper solutions in Foreign Policy, according to qualities and features of Polish position.

The most important issues debated here are Polish role in the EU, NATO, our neighbourhood in Central Europe, but also Polish leading role in the Eastern Policy of the EU, innovative and creative approaches towards the changing world. In the final part of the course special attention is paid and the course is focused on the new global scene on the eve of XXI century and the new global institutional framework (order?) after the crisis of 2008. It will be combined with another crucial issue of contemporary era i.e. gloabl challenges, like proliferation of atomic energy, global terror (including cyberterror), climate change, environmenatl pollution etc. We will try to identify the Polish position towards all of them. At the end there will be also a reference to the pandemic of COVID-19 which brought about some new dynamics into the international system, with some new challenges in front of the nation states.

The course is divided on nine subjects and 30 lectures as follows:

I. Main principles and requirements of Polish Foreign Policy

1. Raison d'Etat
2. Main principles: sovereignty, security and development
3. Alliances and "return to Europe"
4. Strategy and Foreign Policy

II. Evolution of Foreign Policy 1989 - 2012

5. Return to sovereingty 1989-1992
6. External security 1993-1999
7. European integration 2000-2004
8. The experience of IV Republic in Foreign Policy and its return after 2015 inm the form of "more nsovereignty" policy

III. European Integration in Polish Foreign Policy

9. From partnership to membership - accession process
10. Poland in the EU - the inventary
11. Institutional framework of Polish Membership
12. Dilemmas surrounding Polish Membership in the EU

IV. Poland in NATO

13. Accession process
14. Polish participation in NATO missions abroad
15. Poland and Lisbon Strategy 2010

V. Polish Eastern Policy

16. Eastern Partnership of the EU - Polish project
17. Ukrainian Crisis and challenges in the East
18. Challenges in relations with Russia

VI. Poland in Central Europe - Regional Policy of Poland

19. Regional Policy of Poland and Visegrad Group (V4)
20. Other regional initiatives (CEI, Baltic Council, Three Seas Initiative)

VII. Poland in international organizations

21. Poland in the UN and UN System
22. Poland in OSCE
23. Poland in Council of Europe

VIII. Poland and the emerging new global order

24. Crisis of 2008 and its consequences
25. G-2, BRICS, SCO and other initiatives
26. Poland toward the emerging markets. and especially China's BRI 17+1 and AIIB

IX. Poland towards the global challenges

27. Terrorism and cyberterrorism
18. Climate change and latrenative energy sources
29. Environmenatl challenges
30. COVID-19 and its effects for Poland and the world

Student's workload:
lecture - 30 hrs
preparation to the lecture - 45 hrs
preparation to the exam - 45 hrs
total time - 120 hrs