Sojusz Północnoatlantycki w polskiej koncepcji oddziaływania międzynarodowego

In Polish political strategy, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization plays the role of the guarantor of security and the central institution stabilizing the intemational order. Yet the emergence of new sources of threats to the global security system, and especially the lack of symmetiy in their impact, lead to the individualization of security level assessment. In the Transatlantic dimension, it gives birth to majordivergencesin assessing individual threats to security, and - even more sharply - in forms and principles of countering them. The discords that continue in the Transatlantic family weaken Poland’s position at the sub regional, regional, and global levels. Faced with such a status quo, Polish international activity should focus on attempts to reconstruct the Transatlantic relations, while most of the actual actions undertaken should aim at seeking compromise concerning the scope and forms of reaction that the states of the Transatlantic community should work out to react to negative transformations in the international order.