The article attempts to analyze Central Eastern European Countries
(CEECs) focusing on the restructuring of governance and on the evolution
of the complex network relations constituting the framework for decisional
processes concerning economic, social and territorial development in Po-
land. The evolution from the highly hierarchical structure of the pre-1989
period towards the governance model characterising the transformation pe-
riod will be looked at as a process increasingly embedded in a scenario dom-
inated by international agents such as international financial institutions,
the European Union, international capitals. It is possible to affirm that the
presented transformation did not coincide with a withdrawal of the state,
but mainly with a process of restructuring of apparatuses and hierarchies,
following the guidelines of the neoliberal approach. The claimed neutral
position of the state, guaranteeing complete freedom to the market, while
provoking the dismantling of the socialist welfare system, implied a strongly
biased behaviour as the state provided the necessary framework for new eco-
nomic mechanisms to freely reproduce themselves.