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Baltic Seacoast
Bielsko Biala
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Centre Alliance
democratic consolidation
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EU accession process
FSO
Full NATO Membership
gazeta
General Regional Shift
george
jacek
janusz
kuron
leszek
lewandowski
moczulski
NACC
NATO Enlargement
NATO Entry
NATO Extension
NATO Membership
NATO Nuclear Weapon
NATO Russia Council
NATO Structure
NATO's Planning
NATO’s Planning
Oleksy Affair
party system fragmentation
Patron's Election
Patron’s Election
People's Poland
Piast Poland
Polish political modernisation challenges
Polish Soviet War
Porozumienie Centrum
postcommunist transition
regional political dynamics
sanford
secular Catholic divide
Sld
Surplus Wage Tax
Systemic Exhaustion
World War
wyborcza
Product details
- ISBN 9789057023477
- Weight: 260g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Mar 1999
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Poland pioneered the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. Domestic reformism and the negotiated abdication of ruling elites in 1989 have structured the country's politics in the 1990s. But the division between the communist and Solidarity camps continues to cause problems for a potential reform coalition aiming to complete modernisation through the restructuring required for EU membership. Secular-Catholic and rural-urban conflicts, and well as the growing regional split between the north-west and south-east, have fragmented political life and the party system. Nevertheless, Poland has made remarkable steps in the consolidation of democracy and the development of her political system, whilst maintaining social stability; she is also successfully transcending her historical security dilemma of open western and eastern frontiers and stronger, aggressive neighbours, by embedding herself in Europe through membership of NATO and the EU. Poland is overcoming her historical problems.
