European spirit, adaption to market economy and national identity in Poland and Ukraine

The major objective of this work is – besides economic considerations – to estimate how far Poland and Ukraine have grown on the social and cultural EI path – layer of inter-country convergence which is assumedly even more difficult to achieve than consensus in an economic and political state union - what are the causes of the present state of evolution and what inferences for future transformations steps can be deducted thereof.

In terms of more specific terms of reference, so-to-speak research question antedating each chapter of the corpus, the author posed the following hypothesis: ...