title: Between European Union and the Three Seas Initiative: A New Geopolitical Role of Poland?
abstract: This paper's aim is to provide a retrospective of the Three Seas Initiative (3SI).The Initiative is made up of countries, with a leading role of Poland, that joined the European Union and NATO relatively late (EU -2004(EU - , 2007(EU - , 2013;; NATO -1999 NATO - , 2004 NATO - , 2009)), (does not apply to Austria and Greece) but have participated in these integration projects for several years, especially in the European Union and have sufficiently developed economically to want to throw off the 