Poland’s role in the Three Seas Initiative: perspectives from Russian academia and experts
Poland’s role in the Three Seas Initiative: perspectives from Russian academia and experts

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to present the issue of the Three Seas Initia-tive and Poland’s role in Central Europe in the Russian academic and expertnarrative. The research is based primarily on Russian scientific articles and ex-pert publications in the Russian media – mainly on the Internet. The generalconclusion from the conducted research is as follows: the Russian academicnarrative, in its perception of the Three Seas Initiative, tries to notice variousfactors influencing the political situation and regional cooperation in CentralEurope, treating Central European countries as entities initiating integrationprocesses in the region. In turn, the Russian expert narrative is dominated bythe view that this is a project implemented by the Anglo-Saxon countries,in which the decisive factor is the United States, which is interested in consoli-dating its geopolitical primacy in Central Europe and displacing Russian andChinese economic and political influences from this area. Russian experts alsopoint to Poland’s historically motivated, nostalgic ambitions to play a lead-ership and hegemonic role in the region and to strengthen, with the helpof Washington and London, the position of the Central European region vis-à-vis the continental powers of Europe – Germany and France.

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