Roman Szul

Geopolitics of Natural Gas Supply in Europe - Poland Between the EU and Russia

Geopolitics of Natural Gas Supply in Europe - Poland Between the EU and Russia The article analyses possible interests, attitudes and activities of the major actors in the ‘natural gas supply game’ in Europe after 1990: Russia/Gazprom, alternative suppliers like countries in the Caspian Sea area, the main consumers of gas and transit countries. It stresses that behaviour of the actors depends on the changing international political and economic situation and conditions in individual countries. Special attention is paid to pipeline projects: Nord Stream, South Stream and Nabucco, and reactions to them, such as building a LGN terminal at Świnoujście (Poland), North-South (Baltic-Adriatic) energy corridor and the Polish-Russian gas contract of 2010.

The Regional Impact of the Transformation Processes in Poland after 1989 against the background of the General Trends

The aim of this part of the study is to present the main characteristics of the economic transformation in Poland after the change of the political and economic system in 1989.1 The analysis will focus on macro-economic performance and policy.

General Trends of the Socio-economic Transformation Processes in Poland after 1989

The aim of this paper is to present the main characteristics in the economic transformation of Poland after the change of the political and economic system in 1989. The analysis will focus on macroeconomic performance and policy.

Spatial order and polish disorder: Problems in the Polish space economy

Abstract Poland is currently undergoing a severe social andeconomic crisis — but this is also a crisis of spatial organisation. This paper first examines the problem of the Polish space economy, looking in turn at settlement structure, migration, economic specialisation, technical infrastructure andenvironmental problems. It then turns to the causes of spatial imbalance — the strategy of forced industrialisation and the nature of economic management in Poland — and the effects these have had on territorial structure andsocial attitudes alike. Noting that spatial imbalances are not just a function of the problems of Polish society, but are also a cause of these problems, this paper concludes with an alternative regional scenario on reformed social management.