Prometeizm i koncepcja Międzymorza w praktyce polityczno-prawnej oraz dyplomacji II RP

The Author demonstrates the influence of prometheism and the political, legal and institutional conception of Intermarium and the diplomacy of the interwar Poland as a necessary provision of the security against the aggression of the former invaders. In the first place author presents the definitions of prometheism and Intermarium. He describes the impact of the most important, political and legal ideas in Poland before World War II. To do so the Author presents a dispute between the National Democracy, the political group of Marshal Józef Piłsudski and the environment of the youth conservatives. Representatives of national thought postulated the creation of a unified state in terms of ethnic. They were sceptical about building the Central and East European block. In turn, Pilsudski’s environment and youth conservatives proposed the creation of a strong alliance between states of Central and East Europe. In the same time they supported the independence movements in the Soviet Union. Author also points out an example of the “Grabski Education Act” and the activities of the Eastern Institute in Warsaw. In this context, he analyses the impact of prometheism and the conception of Intermarium on the legal and institutional life of the Second Polish Republic. In the last part of the article he presents the polish diplomatic efforts in the first years after Poland regained independence. These diplomatic attempts were aimed to create a coalition of countries in Central and East Europe. The main purpose of this coalition was to defend the common interests of the new states against the Russian and German threat.