SHAPING POLISH ‘EASTERN POLICY’ IN THE LATE 1980S – EARLY 1990S

Abstract

The article analyzes emergence of Polish ‘Eastern policy’ in the late 1980s – early 1990s. It examines how the country’s foreign relations were evolving in the context of geopolitical changes in East-Central Europe and the break-up of the Soviet Union.  The primary focus of the ‘Eastern policy’ of the Republic of Poland were relations with Ukraine, Russia and Belarus, which together with Poland started their socio-economic transformation.