Foreign policy analysis in post-cold war Poland : history, teaching, institutions, westernization, and theoretical approaches

The purpose of this paper is to characterize Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) in post-Cold War Poland. The scope of this text is limited to FPA, understood as empirical research utilizing foreign policy theories taking into account factors at the domestic level. For the purpose of this article, "Polish FPA" is perceived as research conducted by scholars employed in Poland. The text focuses on five issues of the Polish FPA: (1) historical context, (2) the teaching covering this subject, (3) the development of institutions doing research on foreign policy, (4) adaptation of ideas from global (mainly Western) science (in fact, westernization), and (5) the most important publications analyzing foreign policy and applying theoretical approaches. The paper is a response to the existing research gap as, so far, no work has been prepared strictly on the history of FPA development in post-Cold War Poland. The weakness of existing literature on this subject is its: (1) selectivity, (2) focus on mainstream international relations theories and (3) sketchiness.