Poland in Search of a New Role
Poland in Search of a New Role

Summary/Abstract: The diplomacy of Central European states achieved historical successes in the first 15 years after the end of the Cold War. Over the last three centuries the states and nations of this part of Europe have never been so free and secure as they are now. However, in the first decade of the 21st century something began to go wrong in these states, so far regarded top of the class. In the summer of 2007 Charles Gati warned the American Congress, “Central Europe is thus experiencing a winter of discontent; (...) the only region where democracy has taken root since the collapse of Communism is drifting away from the ambitious goals it set in 1989 and in the years that followed. Most disturbingly, Poland —now as ever the barometer of change in Central and Eastern Europe—appears bent to undo such major aspects of its post-Communist transformation as the compromises made by the Solidarity-led anti-Communists in 1989 with the country’s Communist authorities.”

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