Monograph on strategic partnership between Ukraine and Poland presented in Lublin

The monograph was published by the Polish publishing house UMKS and edited by Professor Marek Petras, Director of the Institute of International Relations of Marie Curie-Skłodowska University (Lublin), Professor Valentyn Balyuk, Director of the Centre for Eastern Europe of Marie Curie-Skłodowska University, and Professor Hryhoriy Perepelytsia, Director of the Educational and Research Institute of International Relations of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

During the conference in Lublin, its participants noted that relations between Poland and Ukraine, which are being implemented in the format of a strategic partnership in the context of Russian aggression against Ukraine and changes in the geopolitical space of Europe and the world, have entered a stage of previously unknown opportunities, but also challenges. Changes at the level of the international system are interpreted as a turning point in a new stage of turbulence, as permanent changes rather than a temporary crisis that define the space of Central and Eastern Europe and the partnership between Poland and Ukraine.

The Russian aggression, motivated by the desire to rebuild the empire, accelerates these changes, causing an intensification of global geopolitical competition, limiting the effectiveness of the rules-based order, ending the period of peace dividends, the conference participants noted, adding that in such circumstances, the geopolitical rationality of many countries, NATO and the European Union is changing, as well as the rationality of the perception of Central and Eastern Europe, including Ukraine, as an integral part of the European and Euro-Atlantic security community.

According to the conference participants, changes in the global space and the new geopolitical rationality of many countries create preconditions for a new formula of strategic partnership between Poland and Ukraine, which combines good neighbourliness with mechanisms for resolving complex issues and contributes to the geostrategic stabilisation of Central and Eastern Europe and the eastern flank of NATO and the EU.

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