Turning the Eagle's Head: Polish Nationhood and the Global War on Terror
Journal: Calhoun: The Naval Postgraduate School Institutional Archive (Naval Postgraduate School)
Year: 2019

This work explores the response to the global war on terror during the last decade in the nation of Poland. Specifically, it examines how visions of the country’s nationhood have been used by the leaders of the country’s dominant political party, Law and Justice (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, or PiS), in conjunction with real or imagined terrorist events to gain power and further its political agenda. This effort is examined in the context of one particular element of Polish nationhood, Sarmatism, whi