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Poland is situated in the region of Central and Eastern Europe. It is a member of the European Union, NATO, the Council of Europe, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and of many other international organizations and institutions. During the Cold War, Poland was part of the Eastern Bloc—a member of the Warsaw Pact and COMECON—and its security policy depended on East-West relations, as well as on Poland’s position of subjectivity with regard to the USSR. The end of the Cold War had a great impact on Poland’s security policy and it profoundly changed its internal and external determinants.
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Zając, J. (2016). Post-Cold War Determinants of Poland’s Security Policy. In: Poland's Security Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59500-3_1
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