Intermarium

The Soviets, whose sphere of influence was directly threatened, worked to thwart the Intermarium agenda.

Piłsudski saw an Intermarium federation as a counterweight to Russian and German imperialism.

In view of the Ukrainian Crisis Stratfor has been discussing an alliance system remembering the Intermarium.

However, the conflict of interests was too big and neither Little Entente nor Intermarium (Międzymorze) ideas succeeded.

Given the re-emergence of Russian power, the idea of the Intermarium - supported by the United States, and focused on Russia - would become inevitable.

The Polish name Międzymorze, which means "Intersea" or "Between-seas," was rendered into Latin as "Intermarium."

Intermarium for a plan by Polish leaders after World War I to create a similar political structure across the same region, but for the benefit and security of Poland.

The Intermarium main purpose was to guarantee a lasting balance of power in Central Europe and to secure the existence of its nations against both western and eastern imperialisms.

Intermarium complemented Piłsudski's other geopolitical vision-Prometheism, whose goal was the dismemberment of the Russian Empire and that Empire's divestment of its territorial conquests.

Statements of Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, the commander of the U.S. Army in Europe, on pre-positioning essentially announced a new Intermarium, or its small beginning.

Bozena Szaynok, The Kielce Pogrom, in Intermarium, vol 1 no 3 (1997) East Central European Research Center, Columbia University, (available here)

Marek Jan Chodakiewicz, Intermarium: The Land between the Black and Baltic Seas (Transaction Publishers) New Brunswick, NJ.

On 6 August 2015 Polish President Andrzej Duda, in his inaugural address, announced plans to build a regional alliance of Central and East European states, modeled on the Intermarium concept.

Alexei Fenenko, Geopolitics of Intermarium: Kiev's Conduct Escalates Tensions in the Baltic-Black Sea Region, Valday Discussion Club, May 22, 2015.

The treaty substantially contributed to the failure of Piłsudski's plan to create a Polish-led Intermarium federation of Eastern European countries, as portions of the territory proposed for the federation were ceded to the Soviets.

The speed with which his coup plot collapsed and the completeness of communist knowledge led to speculation amongst British intelligence that Ďurčanský was in fact a double agent but no evidence was forthcoming and before long he had risen to become President of Intermarium.

Marshal Józef Piłsudski, however, seeking to revive the cultural and political heritage of the Commonwealth, continued for some time to pursue his (ultimately unsuccessful) plan for the creation of a federation of Central and Eastern European countries, called Intermarium (Międzymorze).

Poland's Chief of State, Józef Piłsudski, felt the time was right to expand Polish borders as far east as feasible, to be followed by a Polish-led Intermarium federation of East-Central European states as a bulwark against the re-emergence of German and Russian imperialisms.