The “Strategic Thanatos” of Poland
Journal: Russia in Global Affairs
Year: 2018

This article examines the behavior of Poland on the international stage, specifically its interaction with the European Union, the United States, and Russia in a historical context using a psychoanalytic approach to memory studies. The author presumes that Polish foreign policy may be dominated by "strategic thanatos"-a historical practice of tactically meaningful but strategically destructive behavior which, while declaring the state's sovereignty a supreme value, in the long run reduces the le