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Croatia is the only applicant for EU membership standing any chance of accession over the next several years. The country has made much headway along the accession path, even if the European Commission continued to finger areas where reforms should be launched and cooperation with the EU tightened up. But because of a border dispute with Slovenia and a yet-to-be-completed process of the EU's institutional...
In Polish-Russian relations, the 20th century was dominated by two processes of fundamental importance: The decline of the Russian empire and Poland's emancipation from Russian domination. It is worth addressing the question of how Russia's modernization path could affect Polish-Russian relations in the 21st century. The vision of a modern and affluent Russia that forms a political part of Europe...
Professor Zbigniew Brzezinski discusses the strategic prospects of Eastern European states 20 years after they regained their independence. He points to the main challenges facing them in connection with the debate, under way in Russia, about that country's future and its directions of development. The author recommends that countries of the Central Europe deepen their integration within Europe, which...
India is a 'power in the making', with many transitory traits showing strength and weakness. During the last twenty years, this country has made enormous progress and is clearly approaching the status of world power. Without a doubt, the India of 1989 and that of 2009 are, in many respects, two entirely different countries. This is the more surprising as the end of the Cold War did not in the least...
The author attempts to appraise the five years of Poland's membership in the European Union by concentrating on the political and institutional issues which formed the basis for decision-making in economic matters. The author's point of departure is the analysis of pre-accession forecasts which helped choose the criteria for appraising Poland's accession. In addition, the author shows in what manner...
In 1977, the People's Republic of Poland - similarly to other Eastern Bloc countries - became the object of Western criticism for its human right violations. The growing importance of this problem in international relations had to do with the First CSCE Follow-Up Meeting which had just begun in Belgrade and one of whose main subjects was the failure by the 'People's Democracies' to abide by their...
Differences of interpretation by Poles and Ukrainians of their common history lead to tensions in relations between the two countries. This differing viewpoint has to do with a different collective memory shaped by stereotypes and with every nation's tendency to idealize its own past. The author of the article suggests that the main cause of Polish-Ukrainian misunderstandings of a historical nature...
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