Poland's Security Policy - a Different Starting Point
Poland's Security Policy - a Different Starting Point

Summary/Abstract: Is Poland a secure country? When providing grounds for a positive answer to the question we usually invoke Poland’s membership of NATO and the EU, the effective alliance with the USA and settled relations with the neighbors. From this perspective, if one should wish to question the general assumption and avoid an accusation of lack of faith in Poland’s alliances, it would be necessary to either specify the threats against which we are not protected by our membership of NATO and the EU or extend the security agenda by issues of power security, climate and migration. In this case, however, the issue is not connected with security in these areas, but security in its classic understanding—the security of Poland’s territory and the security of the state functioning are guaranteed well enough. It should be noted that the non-traditional threats to international security which became important in the recent years: illegal migrations, terrorism, failed states, did not affect Poland to the same extent as some of its partners in Europe.

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