Instytut Europy Środkowej/Rocznik 23 (2025)/Zeszyt 3/The impact of Bulgaria and Poland’s domestic political dynamics on EU security perceptions: A postfunctionalist perspective

The impact of Bulgaria and Poland’s domestic political dynamics on EU security perceptions: A postfunctionalist perspective

Wpływ wewnętrznej dynamiki politycznej Bułgarii i Polski na percepcje bezpieczeństwa UE. Perspektywa postfunkcjonalistyczna

Spasimir Domaradzki

ORCID: Spasimir Domaradzki: 0000-0001-5794-6532

Afiliacja: Uczelnia Łazarskiego w Warszawie, Polska

Piotr Tosiek

ORCID: Piotr Tosiek: 0000-0002-3585-0262

Afiliacja: University of Warsaw, Poland

Strony: 103–122

Wydanie: Lublin 2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36874/RIESW.2025.3.6

Sposób cytowania: S. Domaradzki, P. Tosiek, The impact of Bulgaria and Poland’s domestic political dynamics on EU security perceptions: A postfunctionalist perspective, „Yearbook of the Institute of East-Central Europe”, 23 (2025), issue 3, pp. 103–122, DOI: https://doi.org/10.36874/RIESW.2025.3.6

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Abstrakt: The objective of the article is to examine the impact of domestic political dynamics in Bulgaria and Poland on the perceptions of strengthening EU security. The study is based on a postfunctionalist approach, which assumes a growing ideological and cultural mobilisation of mass public opinion against solutions proposed at the EU level. Two hypotheses are presented, the verification of which requires a combination of factor, decision, and comparative analysis. The research results show that the peripheral geographical location of both states has had a positive impact on the emergence of a domestic political consensus on how to ensure state security, although Poland is more stable in this respect. It also tries to show that cultural and historical differences between Bulgaria and Poland do not result in fundamental discrepancies in the perception of all-European security. The main difference between these States is the presence of a relatively strong pro-Russian faction in Bulgaria and its almost complete absence in Poland. However, preliminary research indicates that the existence of a moderate pro-Russian option is not a factor that significantly influences the European policy of any EU and NATO member states.

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The impact of Bulgaria and Poland’s domestic political dynamics on EU security perceptions: A postfunctionalist perspective

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