TRADITIONS OF THE YAGELON AND PIASTOV CONCEPTS IN THE MODERN FOREIGN POLICY OF POLAND

Abstract

The article attempts to analyze the traditions of modern Polish foreign policy, which originate from the historically tested Jagiellonian and Piast concepts conceived by the Polish political elite in previous centuries. The concepts are named after the dominant royal dynasties of the Polish state of the Middle Ages – “Piast” and “Jagiellonian”. The Piast and Jagiellonian conceptions are the oldest Polish political doctrines, rooted in the heyday of the Polish state, the times of greatness and power, and that period is a model to be followed and projected by contemporaries into their own realities. The first of these concepts is aimed at intensifying cooperation with Germany and a parallel passive attitude to relations or even confrontational strategies in relations with the eastern neighbors. The second, Jagiellonian foreign policy concept, in contrast, focuses on active expansion in the direction of Belarus, Lithuania, Ukraine and Russia. The Jagiellonian concept, in essence, professes the idea of “conquering the East” and the formation of a multinational state centered in Warsaw. In the twentieth century, the concepts of Piast and Jagiellonian received their new breath and manifested themselves through the concepts of federalism and Prometheanism proposed by Polish politician Józef Pilsudski, manifested through the incorporation policy of Polish endeavors and Roman Dmowski, received a new interpretation by Polish political emigration. implemented in practice in the 90s of the XX – early XXI century by the governments of the Republic of Poland. It was the Jagiellonian and Piast foreign policy doctrines that formed the basis for the formation of the foreign policy concepts of the Second and Third Rzeczpospolita. The traditions of Poland's foreign policy towards Ukrainians, formed in previous centuries, have taken root and been supplemented with new visions, adapted to new geopolitical realities and acquired new features of their manifestation in the XX – early XXI century.