"Strategia bezpieczeństwa narodowego Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej" : rola i znaczenie w kształtowaniu bezpieczeństwa państwa

Gaining the sovereignty by Poland in 1989 caused that the issues of the policy implementation, planning and updating due to national needs, interests and aims have gained a vital importance. The experiences of the previous times could not be applied there as the Soviet Union’s superiority in Poland’s national and foreign policy caused that no traditions were formed to serve as the basis to create Polish strategies, the security strategy including. Due to the fact that this state of affairs had some influence on the activities conducted in the country, this article deals with the problems of the role and importance of the “Security Strategy of the Polish Republic" in shaping the security of the state. It also asks questions concerning the essential issues: What role does the current national security strategy play in shaping the security of the state? ; How important is the current national security strategy for the security of the state? ; How does the current national security strategy function in legal regulations and organisational structures in Poland? ; How can (should) the security strategy function in Poland? Answering the mentioned above questions, the article verifies an opinion how the Polish state carries out the national security strategy in order to ensure the existence and development at the threshold of the 21st century and how it is going to conduct it in the decades to come. The approach undertaken in this publication verifies also the thesis that Poland is in the course of forming normative and organisational basis to create such instruments of its policy as strategies, the national security strategy including.