Change in Poland but what change Assumptions of Law and Justice party foreign policy
The deep reform of the state announced by Law and Justice party (PiS) and its unquestioned leader, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, and presented as the "Good Change" to a great extent also influences foreign, especially European, policy. Though PiS's political project has been usually analysed in terms of its relation to the post 1989, so called 3rd Republic institutional political model and the results of the socio economic transformation of the last 25 years, there is no doubt that in its alternative concept for Poland, the perception of the world, Europe and Poland's place in it, plays a vital role. The "Good Change" concept implies the most far reaching reorientation in foreign policy in the last quarter of a century, which, at the level of policy declarations made by representatives of the government circles and their intellectual supporters implies the abandonment of a number of key assumptions that shaped not only policy but also the imagination of the Polish political elite and broad society as a whole after 1989.