Jacek Woźniakowski, Foreword
Teresa Walas, Editor’s note

National Stereotypes – an Introduction
Jan Berting, Christiane Villain-Gandossi, The role and significance of national stereotypes in international relations: an interdisciplinary approach

How Different Nations See Themselves and One Another
Jan Błoński, Mrożek and stereotypes

the Poles – the Czechs
Antonin Mestan, The Czech stereotype of Czechs compared with the Czech stereotype of Poles
Antoni Kroh, The Pole and the Czech: two brothers
Jasna Hloušková, Poles in the eyes of Czechs

the Hungarians – the Slovaks
Csaba Gy Kiss, In a two-way mirror: Hungarians and Slovaks

the Poles – the Hungarians
Andrzej Sieroszewski, The Hungarian stereotype the Polish Literature of the 19th and 20th centuries
Judit Reiman, Hungarians’ perception of Poles in the eighties

Béla Borsi-Kálmán, The Romanians in Hungarian eyes

the Poles – the Lithuanians
Tomas Venclova, The problem of the Lithuanian stereotype
Czesław Okińczyc, The Lithuanian stereotype as seen by a Pole
Greta Lemanaité, The stereotype of a Pole in the eyes of a Lithuanian

the Poles – the Belarusians
Aleksander Antipenka, Today’s Belarusian (Surviving the ethnicity crisis)
Franciszek Ziejka, The inhabitants of the sad Arcadia: a sketch to the portrait of the Belarusians in Polish literature
Oleg Lojka, The Pole in Belarusian eyes

the Poles – the Ukrainians
Mykola Ryabchuk, From „Little Russia” to „Indo-Europe”: the stereotype of the nation in the Ukrainian social consciousness and social thought
Danuta Sosnowska, The stereotype of the Ukrainian in Polish literature
Maria Zubrycka, The Stereotype of the Pole in Ukrainian literature
Bohdan Strumiński, The stereotype of the Pole in Ukrainian proverbs

the Poles – the Russians
Ludmila Saraskina, The Russians in their own eyes
Andrzej Kępiński, The origins and functioning of the negative stereotype of Russia and the Russians
Konstantin Duszenko, The Poles in the eyes of the Russians

the Poles – the French
Joanna Nowicki, The French and the Poles – an almost perfect love affair

the Poles – the Germans
Thomas Beckermann, The German – at odds with himself
Wojciech Wrzesiński, Nineteenth and twentieth-century varieties of the Polish stereotype of the German
Albrecht Lempp, The stereotypical Pole – a stereotyped German view

Lothar Baler, The reversibility of stereotypes – the Franco-German case

the Poles – the Swedes
Tomasz Jastrun, Poland and Sweden, so close and yet so far away

Stereotypes in Art
Krzysztof Zanussi, National stereotypes in films
Stanisław Frenkiel, Caricature as stereotype
Jan Stęszewski, Polish national character in music: what is it?
Stanisław Barańczak, Ethnic stereotypes in English and American light verse

How Stereotypes Develop and Spread
Frans A.M. Alting von Geusau, Cultural diplomacy and national stereotypes: for official use only?
Jerzy Bartmiński, Poland’s neighbours in the eyes of Polish students
Jacek Fedorowicz, Stereotypes in a light vein

Personal Accounts
Czesław Miłosz
Karl Dedecius
Tomas Venclova

Against Xenofobia
Roger Scruton, Oikophobia and xenophilia
Urs Altermatt, National Populism in Western Europe
Ruth Amossy, The National Front against the „Off-the-peg thinking” of anti-racist groups, or: an examination of the proper use of accepted ideas in the new xenophobic debates