Polska polityka wschodnia w świetle teorii realizmu. Zagrożenia dla bezpieczeństwa państwa polskiego w latach 1989-2014
Polish Eastern Policy in the light of the theory of realism. Threats of the security of the Polish state between 1989 and 2014

Summary/Abstract: The main purpose of the article is to present Polish eastern policy as motivated by a threat to state security. It was assumed that it is a continuation of the concepts referred to as „the Jagiellonian idea” and the sources of the threat are located beyond the eastern border of the Republic of Poland. In the conducted analysis, a realistic perspective was used as the one that best characterizes the political situation in Poland’s eastern neighborhood. In his considerations, the author focuses on the main assumptions of Polish foreign policy in 1989, the motives behind the efforts to join the North Atlantic Alliance and the European Union, and the activities carried out between 2005 and 2014. The end date of the article was assumed to be 2014 when the conflict in Donbas began. As a result of the analysis, it was found that the Polish concerns were confirmed by a number of events as war in Georgia (2008), the conflict in Donbas (2014-now), and the destabilization of Belarus after elections (2020). The article is based on state documents, analyzes, politicians’ statements, press materials and literature.

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