Poland in a time of geopolitical flux

Lanoszka, Alexander

doi:10.1080/13569775.2020.1777042

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“…Th e risk of an armed confl ict caused by the Russian Federation has been indicated as the main threat to Poland both by the state authorities (Ministry of National Defense, 2016;Republic of Poland, 2020) and by the public in surveys (Vice, 2017;Smura, 2018). At the same time, Poland's presence in NATO and close relations with the United States were indicated as the main guarantees of Poland's security (Republic of Poland, 2014;Ministry of National Defence, 2016;Smura, 2018;Lanoszka, 2020). We argue that ultimately, the very process of framing the desired relations with the USA may be interpreted as a paramount and overarching security practice.…”

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Disentangling the Moral Rightness of Securitization: Data Mining of the Process of Framing and Shaping of Poland-United States Relations

Kwiatkowska

Chwedczuk-Szulc

Bolechów

2022

Polish Political Science Review

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Since the democratic transition, Poland-United States relations have been framed by the Polish authorities as a strategic threat-management tool in the securitization process of Poland’s geopolitical position, particularly concerning the Russian Federation. We analyse the process of securitization regarding Poland-US relations through latent topic modelling of Polish parliamentary speeches in the years 1991–2017. We demonstrate that the discourse on Polish-US relations is heavily dominated by security topics, narrowly understood as military security. Furthermore, even when economic issues are discussed, they are frequently linked to military operations. Based on Floyd’s (2011, 2019) model of the moral rightness of securitization, we argue that the close relationship between securitizing moves (debates on Poland-US relations) and security practices (security events) suggests the basic sincerity of the securitizing actor, while the historical context reflected in the Polish collective memory strongly influences the audience’s frame of reference and strengthens the power of the securitizing actor. However, although the case fulfils Floyd’s (2019) criteria of morally right securitization, we have shown a historical disparity between the scope of securitizing moves with security practices and the existing level of threat. This demonstrates that the securitizing agent has been abusing securitization by exceeding the ‘least harmful option’, particularly due to the large asymmetry of power of the participants in the relationship, the securitization process stretched over a long period and the threat severity varying over time.

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Disentangling the Moral Rightness of Securitization: Data Mining of the Process of Framing and Shaping of Poland-United States Relations

Kwiatkowska

Chwedczuk-Szulc

Bolechów

2022

Polish Political Science Review

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“…The ambivalent attitude of the Obama administration towards CEE meant that the Polish authorities eagerly began to strive for a more determined involvement of the Donald Trump administration in the region and even closer linking of their own security interests with those of the US (Goh & Sahashi, 2020). The PiS unequivocally supports a unipolar world in which the United States maintains military primacy (Lanoszka, 2020), believing that close ties with the superpower are Poland's only credible external security guarantee. The rapprochement between the Polish and US authorities was a consequence of their complicated relations with Western Europe.…”

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Polish-American Alliance During the Presidency of Donald Trump in the Perspective of Offensive Bandwagoning

Jureńczyk

2022

TIS

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The aim of the paper is to analyze and evaluate the Polish-American alliance during the presidency of Donald Trump in the perspective of the concept of offensive bandwagoning. In Poland, the United States is invariably perceived as the main external guarantor of security. For this reason, Poland's security policy is clearly pro-American. The Polish authorities from the Law and Justice party and the US administration of President Donald Trump were brought together by many factors, including ideological closeness, disputes with Western European political elites, relativizing the principles of the rule of law and democracy, and a similar view of the geopolitics of Central and Eastern Europe. I argue that in recent years the Polish-American alliance was deepened, but at the same time the asymmetry in relations between the states increased. Even more than usual, symptoms of clientelism were noticeable in Poland's security policy towards the US, which was a consequence of the implementation of the offensive bandwagoning concept. I also argue that the tightening of Polish-American alliance was detrimental to the cohesion and solidarity in NATO and the EU, which was against the basic interests of Poland's security. During the research, the method of text source analysis was used. The research could support decision-makers in developing the basic principles of Poland's security policy towards the United States.

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“…In addition, the rather more favourable disposition towards Republican presidents (and Donald Trump in particular) has not been confined to PiS, but shared by a segment of the public opinion (Pew Research Centre 2016 ) and has been a flong-standing eature of the country’s foreign policy tradition. In other words, a non-populist government would have been equally likely to prioritize strategic ties with Washington and pursue initiatives like the Fort Trump proposal (for a similar assessment, see: Lanoszka 2020 ), though probably less at the expense of its policies in Europe and, arguably, with a different packaging and delivery.…”

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“…As PiS has been in control of both the Parliament and the Presidency since October 2015, it has had the means and time to potentially shape the country’s foreign policy and Poland can thus be considered as a ‘most likely’ case when it comes to the influence of populism on foreign policy. Yet, available empirical accounts of the PiS government’s foreign policy have mainly focused on the party’s thick ideology (Varga and Buzogány 2020 ; Zwolski 2017 ) or on external geopolitical factors (Lanoszka 2020 ) rather than on populism as such. In addition, the Polish case deviates from some of the common expectations advanced in the literature on the topic, such as the increased personalization of foreign policy or the advent of a more pro-Russian orientation under populist leadership.…”

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Populist politics of representation and foreign policy: evidence from Poland

Cadier

2021

Comp Eur Polit

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This article characterizes and analyses variations in Poland’s foreign policy under the Law and Justice (PiS) government with a view to shed light on the distinctive influence of populism. I argue that this influence has mainly to do with the ‘politics of representation’, understood both in the sense of meaning production and of theatrical performance. Building on the discursive and stylistic approaches to populism as well as on the post-structuralist literature in Foreign Policy Analysis, this article conceptualizes populism as a set of representational practices in domestic politics that spill over, and affect, foreign policy. By promoting distinct representations of Self and Other in international affairs and by investing foreign policy making as a site to perform a rupture with technocratic elites, populist practices contribute to enable or constrain certain policy choices and mode of diplomatic actions. In Poland, this has translated into a securitization of the EU, a partial de-Europeanization of the national interest and a re-shuffling of partnership prioritizations, as well as in disruptive and ‘undiplomatic’ comments on the part of the PiS foreign policy executive.

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Poland in a time of geopolitical flux

Cited by 15 publications

References 26 publications

Disentangling the Moral Rightness of Securitization: Data Mining of the Process of Framing and Shaping of Poland-United States Relations

Disentangling the Moral Rightness of Securitization: Data Mining of the Process of Framing and Shaping of Poland-United States Relations

Polish-American Alliance During the Presidency of Donald Trump in the Perspective of Offensive Bandwagoning

Populist politics of representation and foreign policy: evidence from Poland

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