On December, 15 there was held a presentation of the monograph by Liudmyla Strilchuk and Yuliia Pasichnyk “Presidential Dimension of Modern Ukrainian-Polish Relations”. The event took place at the University’s conference hall.
There were present the Rector Anatolii Tsios, the Vice Consul of General Consulate of Poland in Lutsk, Teresa Khrusch, professors from the Faculty of History, Political Studies and Homeland Security, etc.
In his speech, the Rector mentioned the 50 signed contracts on cooperation, 30 of them being with the Polish institutions, as a result of the University being engaged in the programs of student academic mobility and dual education.
According to Teresa Khrusch, it is important to disclose the interrelations of the countries. She also thanked the authors for the book, in the process of preparation of which there emerged new ideas for such relations. Particularly, the Vice Consul shared the plans for organizing a conference due to the 100th anniversary of Volyn Voivodeship, as well as other events.
Liudmyla Strilchuk, a co-author of the book, told that the way to publishing the monograph was not easy, the very idea being not new. “We wanted it to be something more than the research into just external policies of Poland and Ukraine. We tried to bring up some new concepts, something never mentioned before. The subject of the study was personal relations between the presidents. In the book we examine how their own preferences affected the inter-country relations”. The author said that Ukrainians and Poles have much in common, adding that there was a chapter in the book about the mental aspects of Ukrainian-Polish relations, and the impact of Lesya Ukrainka University on them.
“I feel honored to present our book today. It is our little scientific contribution too, because we became the first to present the concept of “presidential dimension of Polish-Ukrainian relations”. In our book we wanted to discuss how Polish presidents were shaping the external vector of the state, and how they were communicating with Ukrainian colleagues”, Yuliia Pasichnyk said.
Other scholars, present at the event, left complimentary comments about the book, wishing the authors even more achievements in the future.
Andrii Petrushko,
Public Affairs Department