Polish-Belarusian Relations: Between a Common Past and the Future

Cover
Introduction
Chapter 1 Historical and cultural conditions
	1. Name of the state, ethnogenesis, the state- and nation-building process, Belarusian identity
	2. The Union of Krewo and the Union of Lublin
	3. The Union of Brest and its consequences
	4. Polish-Russian rivalry over Belarusian “souls”
	5. The beginnings of Belarusian nationalism
	6. The First World War and the October Revolution in Russia
	7. The reborn Republic and the lands of Belarus
	8. Belarusians in the Second Republic and the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic
	9. The Second World War and the post-war period
Chapter 2 Polish-Belarusian relations from the perspective of Polish policy towards the east
	1. Transformation of the foreign policy of Poland and Belarus
	2. Geopolitical situation and social and economic potential
	3. Poland’s policy towards the east
Chapter 3 Political relations
	1. A good beginning and a lost opportunity
	2. “Critical dialogue”
	3. New challenges and problems after the expansion of the European Union
	4. The “Ukrainian factor” and the honeymoon
Chapter 4 “Difficult issues”
	1. The historical dialogue
	2. National minorities – Poles in Belarus and Belarusians in Poland
	3. Border and visa traffic
Chapter 5 Economic relations
	1. The legal and treaty foundations of economic cooperation
	2. Trade
	3. Investment and capital cooperation
	4. Cross-border cooperation
	5. Energy
	6. Other areas, prospects for and barriers to cooperation
Chapter 6 Cultural cooperation
	1. Cultural contacts
	2. Cooperation in the field of education
Conclusions
Bibliography
Appendix
Index of names