ZMIANY KLIM ATU JAKO ZAGROŻENIE DLA BEZPIECZEŃSTWA NARODOWEGO W ŚWIETLE DOKUMENTÓW ADMINISTRACJI AMERYKAŃSKIEJ XXI WIEKU.

The issue of climate change has started to be implemented in official strategic documents of the United States (US) in the first decade of the 21^st century. This paper describes briefly the hierarchy of the US national security documents and climate change-related definitions. In the main part it makes an analysis of how climate change-related issues were introduced into the US national security strategic documents by the three 21^st century American presidents. The paper comes to a conclusion, that climate change is treated as a national security threat and therefore reflected in a number of the US strategic documents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]