New Atlanticist

Dr Kerry Longhurst is Senior Lecturer in European Security at the European Research Institute at the University of Birmingham, UK. She has published in the areas of German security policy, Polish foreign policy and transatlantic security. Dr Marcin Zaborowski is a Lecturer in European Politics at Aston University in the UK and is currently seconded as a Senior Research Fellow at the European Union Institute for Security Studies in Paris. He has published widely in the areas of European and transatlantic security, and the Common Foreign and Security Policy.

• 1. Introduction. 2. The past as prologue: the culture of Polish foreign and security policy.3. The emergence of an Atlanticist: the strategic orientation of Polish security policy after 1989.4. The EU as a security actor: the Polish perspective.5. Eastern policy - Poland's specialism.6. Poland in the enlarged EU.7. Conclusion.

'Indispensable for all those who are either professionally or academically interested in the foreign and security policy of Poland. It combines thorough analysis and brilliant presentation with a critical evaluation of Poland – the most vocal and most self-confident new Atlanticist in the new Europe." Professor Adam Rotfeld, former Foreign Minister of Poland (2005)