Theories of National Business Cultures and Dispositional Groups as Determinants of Post-War Europe: the Historic Opportunity for the Countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Within the framework of intercultural, interdisciplinary and inter-functional research, the content of the Russia- Ukraine war is identified as a war against global democracy and common European values. The thesis put forward that, being a civilisational threat, this war for a group of Central and Eastern Europe countries consisting of Poland, Ukraine, Slovakia, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, provides a historic opportunity to acquire a qualitatively new role in the system of the pan- European economy and politics. For scientific support in realising this opportunity, the necessity of synthesising the paradigmatic foundations of the theory of national business cultures and the theory of dispositional groups is substantiated; the content of the new approach in the characterisation of business cultures, taking into account the 'security' component, is revealed; a comparative analysis of the national business cultures of this group of countries is carried out in the context of the development of the First Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, J. Piłsudski's idea of Intermarium and the political life of modern history. The overall potential of these countries and the priority areas of their cooperation are determined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]