Poland’s Security Policy after the Cold War
Journal: Siyasal Journal of Political Sciences
Year: 2022

The three decades after the fall of communism in 1989 proved to be a good time for Poland’s national security. A sovereign Poland effectively reconstructed its foreign and security policy from the ground up, following 40 years of Soviet domination. She reorganized her treaty-based relations with neighboring states, consolidated its own borders and rejected old military and economic alliances. The Polish political transformation, although costly in social terms, has made it a democratic and econo