Poland, Germany and Ukraine at a Turning Point: Making or Breaking the Western Alliance
At the beginning of 2025, Russia's war against Ukraine is entering its third year. At the same time, the EU is facing many uncertainties. Starting with those related to Donald Trump's second presidential term, through intra-European ones – related to the growth of far-right and far-left groups in many EU countries, and resulting from Russia's hybrid war against Western countries. In this context, the Jan Nowak-Jeziorański College of Eastern Europe in cooperation with Austausch is publishing a report that offers answers to these threats and challenges. The Heinrich Böll Foundation Warsaw office and the Foundation of Polish-German Cooperation supported the publication. The report covers such themes as why the transatlantic community’s approach to Russia requires urgent changes; German anti-establishment parties in the context of support for Ukraine; Poland's decreasing solidarity with Ukraine due to the far-right’s instrumentalization of historical and economic tensions; the challenges ahead of Germany’s civil defense; Polish-German divergence and convergence regarding security cooperation in Europe; support of Ukraine by Global South.
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Adam Balcer, Introduction 2
Maria Domańska, Western cognitive bias vis-à-vis Russia: how to fix it? 4
Julia Friedrich, Partners from the “Global South”: a way towards new alliances for Ukraine? 9
Monika Sus, The same but different? Poland and Germany’s perspectives on EU-NATO cooperation in light of the Russian war in Ukraine 13
Cornelia Juliane Grosse, No Strength Attached? Civil Defenseas a (Trans-)National Challenge 18
Piotr Kocyba, A poster boy of support for Ukraine. Struggling with the normalization of war and raising enemies within in Poland 24
Rebecca Pates, German anti-establishmentarianism and the Russian war in Ukraine 29