Україна - Польща: ґенеза стратегічного партнерства крізь призму президентського чинника

In view of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Ukraine's independence, assessing the state-building processes, including the assertion of the state as a subject of international relations, attention is drawn to Ukraine's relations with Poland, the efforts of wich have substantially increased the advances of our state. The attention is focused on the development of strategic partnership relations between Ukraine and Poland as well as their progress over almost twenty years. The article was drawn on a novel theoretical and methodological basis using appropriate conceptual and categorical tools. The interdisciplinary nature of the study is well agreed with the integration processes in modern Ukrainian humanities. The author highlighted the conceptual basis of Ukrainian-Polish relations; the conditions of their genesis to the level of strategic partnership were determined. Asserting the fact that relationships of the parties are being conditioned by the presidential factor, given the changes in both states presidential power, particular stages in Ukrainian-Polish relations have been defined and characterized. An attempt was made to reveal the specificity of interstate relations during the presidency of L. Kuchma - A. Kwasniewski, Y. Yushchenko - l. Kaczynski, V. Yanukovych - B. Komorowski and to attribute each of them a balanced assessment, and to forecast the content and direction of cooperation between the two countries for the period of P. Poroshenko - A. Duda's presidency. The findings are inclusive of the comparative analysis of Ukrainian and Polish approaches to the development of relations of strategic partnership between the two countries.