POLAND’S FOREIGN POLICY CONCEPTS TRADITIONS AND INNOVATIONS REGARDING UKRAINE (the XXth – the beginning of the XXIst century)
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2021Author
Dobrzhanskiy, Oleksander
Strilchuk, Lyudmyla
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In the modern world, the state’s foreign policy is one of the supporting foundations
of statehood, and therefore the study of the foreign policy concepts formation and implementation
experience is relevant and necessary for the development of the modern interstate and good
neighborly relations between Ukraine and Poland. The Polish political elite, in different historical
periods, distinguished visions about Ukraine clearly, its role and significance for Rzeczpospolita
(Commonwealth), and these visions remained constant, actualized over time, or, conversely, acquired
new shapes and coloring. The Piast and the Jagiellonian concepts have been the main Poland’s foreign
policy concepts since the beginning of the XXth century, and continue to be of utmost importance
and that new or existing foreign policy doctrines have been created or developed based on them. The
article depicts Poland’s foreign policy concepts evolution regarding Ukraine, in particular, and the eastern vector of Polish politics in general. The purpose of the research is to analyze and compare
Poland’s foreign policy concepts evolution towards Ukraine and to study the factors that influenced
the transformation of these concepts.