Poland and European Integration

THOMAS LANE is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Languages and European Studies at Bradford University, UK and formerly head of its department of European Studies. He is the author or editor of several books, the latest being Victims of Stalin and Hitler (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), and has made many contributions to scholarly journals and edited works.MARIAN WOLA?SKI is Professor of Political Science in the Institute of International Studies at the University of WrocLaw, Poland and until recently was Director of the Institute. He is the author and editor of many books and numerous articles. His book Europa Srodkowo-Wschodnia w mysli politycznej emigracji polskiej 1945-1975 was published by the University of WrocLaw Press in 1996. In 2000 he received an award for the best monograph on Polish emigration studies.

• Introduction Concepts of Europe in a Polish Political Tradition A Fine Idea A Predictable Failure Creating a Movement Great Expectations Thwarted Plans The Union of Polish Federalists European Ideas of Polish Political Parties Liberation, Détente and European Union War of Ideas Poland's European Policy after Communism: Continuity and Change Endnotes Bibliography Index

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