Wojna północna (1655-1660) jako casus wczesnonowożytnej geopolityki.

Abstract

The text presents the shaping of the international regional order in Europe in early modern times exemplified with the Northern War (1655–1660). The text includes an analysis of a big war waged under specific conditions, which had its causes and which was an instrument of a policy made in a definite space and time geared to achieve certain political objectives connected with an international position such as it was perceived by its participants. At the same time the text is a case study of war understood as a situational model of a policy made during the Northern War (1655–1660), which affected the shaping of a certain order, and as a result there were some changes both in the international order and in internal relations of the participants of the 1655–1660 war.

Keywords

• geopolitics
• the Peace Treaty of Oliva
• Brandenburg
• Rzeczpospolita
• Sweden
• Northern War (1655–1660)