From Intervention to Retrenchment: Poland's Strategic Culture and the 2011 Libyan Campaign

Christopher Reeves

Europe-Asia Studies, 2019, vol. 71, issue 7, 1140-1161

Abstract: The willingness of successive Polish governments to support and participate in US-led multilateral military interventions—such as the 2003 invasion of Iraq—has been explained in terms of Poland's prevailing strategic culture. Yet in 2011 Poland opted to exclude itself from participating in the NATO campaign against Libya. It is argued that this was not a counter-cultural decision, but was instead a case of one strategic subculture supplanting another. The support that the government received from opposition politicians and the press can be taken as evidence that the policy did not represent a radical departure from Poland's strategic culture.

Date: 2019
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