Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- I Contemporary American Society and Politics
- II Ideologia Americana or Americanism in Action: Transatlantic Encounters
- To Weimar and Back? Poland, the United States, and the Transatlantic Security Space
- A Clash of Expectations: Sorting Out Where East Meets West After The Polish Missile Crisis
- The Polish Missile Crisis: Transatlantic Tensions since 2008 Among Poland, the Ukraine, the United States, and the Russian Federation
- Challenging Americanism: The Public Debate about the “American Way of Life” in Cold-War and Post-Cold-War Greece
- Universal Pictures: Propaganda – Export – Exchange
- III Ideologia Americana or Americanism in Action: Foreign Policy
- IV Ideologia Americana or Americanism in Action: Impact of American Values
- V Ideologia Americana or Americanism in Action: Exceptionalism and Democracy Promotion
- VI Continuity and Change
A Clash of Expectations: Sorting Out Where East Meets West After The Polish Missile Crisis
from II - Ideologia Americana or Americanism in Action: Transatlantic Encounters
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- I Contemporary American Society and Politics
- II Ideologia Americana or Americanism in Action: Transatlantic Encounters
- To Weimar and Back? Poland, the United States, and the Transatlantic Security Space
- A Clash of Expectations: Sorting Out Where East Meets West After The Polish Missile Crisis
- The Polish Missile Crisis: Transatlantic Tensions since 2008 Among Poland, the Ukraine, the United States, and the Russian Federation
- Challenging Americanism: The Public Debate about the “American Way of Life” in Cold-War and Post-Cold-War Greece
- Universal Pictures: Propaganda – Export – Exchange
- III Ideologia Americana or Americanism in Action: Foreign Policy
- IV Ideologia Americana or Americanism in Action: Impact of American Values
- V Ideologia Americana or Americanism in Action: Exceptionalism and Democracy Promotion
- VI Continuity and Change
Summary
The post 1945 world is divided into sectors, each supervised by one of five nations that holds a seat on the United Nations Security Council with unilateral right of veto (P5 Powers). Conflict over borders, for control of international organisations, and for economic and military hegemony arises from “A Clash of Expectations.” This became exacerbated by the dilemma over where East meets West in the aftermath of “The Polish Missile Crisis” of 2009.
The current boundaries of Poland, both Eastern and Western, are artificial, drawn by The Alliance arbitrarily at Yalta in 1945. The Russian Federation is expected by the West to vacate its air and naval bases on the Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula by the year 2017, but refused to go, and Ukraine extended Russia's Crimean leases for another 25 years without public preconditions. Russia should stay on the Crimea, but as a condition should withdraw from Kaliningrad. It may have one or the other, but not both. An armed presence on the Crimea better serves Russia's task of protecting its sector in Eurasia. Poland should have the return of Galicia, along its prewar Eastern boundary.
This means that the United Nations should “move Poland East” the way the Three Powers resolved to “move Poland West” at Yalta. Pomerania should have return of its sovereignty along Poland's prewar Western border. Kaliningrad, or Königsberg as it was known prior to 1945, should become independent or be united with Lithuania, Poland, or Pomerania following return of Pomeranian sovereignty.
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- The United States and the WorldFrom Imitation to Challenge, pp. 87 - 100Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressPrint publication year: 2009