Was Poland ready to be a host country for NATO Joint Force Training Center in Bydgoszcz?

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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DECLARATIONiii

CHAPTER 01: INTRODUCTION5

Background5

Bydgoszcz6

NATO base in Bydgoszcz6

Communist Regimes and inclusion in NATO7

Poland's political criteria for membership into NATO8

Standing of NATO8

Research Statement9

Research Objectives9

Chapter 02: Literature Review11

Overview of the proposed study11

Negotiation of Accession13

Membership Criteria14

New Solidarity15

Rapprochement and Poland's readiness16

Polish-American relations16

Chapter 03: Methodology19

Overview19

Research Design19

Descriptive Research20

Exploratory Research20

Data Collection Methods20

References21

Appendix25

CHAPTER 01: INTRODUCTION

The research focuses on identifying and comparing different factors to understand if Poland was ready to be a host country for NATO Joint Force Training Center in Bydgoszcz. The research reviews a decent amount of literature to properly identify factors and issues involved in such factors and to identify what contributed to this.

Background

The collapse of the Warsaw Pact confrontation and the end of the world's subsequent disintegration of the Soviet Union led to a real opportunity for European unity and transatlantic security. It is therefore a unique opportunity for countries in Central and Eastern Europe to build a safer architecture of the Euro-Atlantic half a century of division. Therefore, the Central and Eastern European countries want to join NATO, and thus provide more stability, peace and security for all, and no new dividing lines.

NATO all Central and Eastern European countries need to carry out the democratic process, in particular the system of civil-military relations. Democratic civilian control over the army is one of the most important conditions in Central and Eastern European countries can be included in NATO. Thus, NATO enlargement has the potential to promote democratic change in Eastern Europe, particularly in the realm of civil-military relations, and the integration of Central and Eastern Europe, "North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Welcoming new members to NATO will be better able to meet the challenges of security in Europe with new ones. Such a security concept consists of political, economic and defense might be the basis for a new security architecture must be built integration and cooperation between partners.

Bydgoszcz

Bydgoszcz is a city in northern Poland and has a population of 358,029 (June 2009), as well as in urban areas over 460,000 inhabitants in Bydgoszcz is the largest city 8 of Poland. This is a place in Bydgoszcz County and in cooperation with the capital, where the Torun Voivodeship and Kuyavian-Pomerania since 1999. Before that, between 1947 and 1998, it was ...