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Under President Lukashenko, three Belarusian national security strategies have been announced: the first in 1995, the second in 2001 and the third in 2011. The first proposal, formulated after Lukashenko’s victory in the presidential elections in 1994, outlined Belarus as a neutral state, unbound to any military block in the absence of external enemies. The direction of the foreign policy pursued by the president of Belarus was reflected in the second strategy, where security against NATO and EU member states was sought in a federal state with the Russian Federation. Under the third national security scheme Belarus was to remain in Russia’s military security system. Nevertheless, an important security factor was considered to be the modernisation of the economy with foreign capital participation and the need to diversify the supplies of fuels, thus reducing the country’s dependence on its earlier partner. The subsequently issued documents: the military doctrine of the State, whose assumptions were published on 20 July 2016, and the Concept of security of the Belarusian state borders for the period 2018–2022, prioritised further development of relations with the Russian Federation and the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation. A new element of the 2019 defence plan is the prevention of external aggression and internal disturbance that contribute to the destabilisation of the state.
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- Type:
- artykuły w czasopismach
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Annales Universitatis Mariae-Curie Skłodowska, sectio K – Politologia
no. 27,
pages 75 - 89,
ISSN: 1428-9512 - Language:
- English
- Publication year:
- 2020
- Bibliographic description:
- Gomółka K.: External Security Strategies of Belarus// Annales UMCS, Sectio K: Politologia -Vol. 27,iss. 2 (2020), s.75-89
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- Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.17951/k.2020.27.2.75-89
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- Gdańsk University of Technology
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