Poland towards its Southern Neighbours

This book is devoted to Polish political reflection on the integration of Central and Eastern Europe. Apart from the facts concerning mutual relations between Warsaw, Budapest, Prague, Bratislava, and Bucharest, the authors discuss also their outset Polish concepts creating the shape of relations with the southern part of the region.

This is another publication from the series devoted to Polish political reflection on the integration of Central and Eastern Europe. The reader will find here texts of historians, political scientists, and experts in the field of international relations. The texts concern relations between Poland and Poles, and the nations of Central and Eastern Europe: Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania encompassing the period from the late nineteenth to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Apart from the facts concerning mutual relations between Warsaw, Budapest, Prague, Bratislava, and Bucharest, the authors discuss also their outset Polish concepts shaping relations with Magyars, Czechs, Slovaks, and Romanians and their sovereign states that regained independence in the twentieth century.

Autorentext

Professor Przemys aw Waingertner a historian, professor, holder of a post-doctoral degree in humanities, the head of the Chair of the History of Modern Poland of the University of ód . The author and co-author of several monographs and more than 100 research papers on the Polish political thought and the Second Polish Republic.

Inhalt

Poland towards its southern neighbours in 19451989

Between history and modern times Poles' geopolitical choices

The Relations of Poland with Central and Eastern Europe Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic, Slovakia), Romania and Hungary in the twentieth and the twenty-first centuries