Eastern Reflections

One of the greatest Poles of the twentieth century, a courier for the underground Home Army (Armia Krajowa), the founder of the Polish section of Radio Free Europe, politician and publicist Jan Nowak-Jeziorański in his reflections on Poland’s relations with its eastern neighbors was able to anticipate much. Without his articles and his polemics with Jerzy Giedroyc, it is quite difficult to understand how Poles view their state’s security problems, why they were so eager to join the North Atlantic Alliance, and how they would like to develop their relations with Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania. In 2014, the Collegium of Eastern Europe in Wrocław—founded by Jan Nowak-Jeziorański and bearing his name—and Ossolineum (the National Institute named after Ossoliński) published a collection of his articles devoted to the foreign policy of the Third Polish Republic. In the original it is titled Rzeczpospolita atlantycka (“Atlantic Republic”). This volume is a shortened version of that edition.