Aktéři a tvorba české zahraniční politiky

KOŘAN, Michal, Jan BLINKA, Vít BORČANY, Vít DOSTÁL, Pavlína JANEBOVÁ, Jana JUZOVÁ, Petr KOLÁŘ, Šárka MICHKOVÁ, Michal MOCHŤAK, Barbora PADRTOVÁ, Michaela PAVLÍKOVÁ and Pavel PŠEJA. Aktéři a tvorba české zahraniční politiky (Actors and making of the Czech Foreign policy). 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2016, 413 pp. Politologická řada, sv. č. 63. ISBN 978-80-210-8774-3.

Basic information

• Original name: Aktéři a tvorba české zahraniční politiky
• Name (in English): Actors and making of the Czech Foreign policy
• Authors: KOŘAN, Michal (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Jan BLINKA (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Vít BORČANY (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Vít DOSTÁL (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Pavlína JANEBOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Jana JUZOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Petr KOLÁŘ (203 Czech Republic), Šárka MICHKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Michal MOCHŤAK (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution), Barbora PADRTOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Michaela PAVLÍKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Pavel PŠEJA (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: 1. vyd. Brno, 413 pp. Politologická řada, sv. č. 63, 2016.
• Publisher: Masarykova univerzita

Other information

• Original language: Czech
• Type of outcome: Book on a specialized topic
• Field of Study: 50601 Political science
• Country of publisher: Czech Republic
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• Publication form: printed version "print"
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14230/16:00100318
• Organization unit: Faculty of Social Studies
• ISBN: 978-80-210-8774-3
• Keywords (in Czech): Česká republika; zahraniční politika; aktéři
• Keywords in English: Czech Republic; Foreign Policy; Actors
• Tags: rivok
• Tags: Reviewed

Abstract

Kniha poskytuje ojediněle rozsáhlý vhled do způsobu vytváření a implementace české zahraniční politiky. Autorský tým, složený z badatelů z více společenskovědních disciplín, volně navázal na publikaci z roku 2007 Česká zahraniční politika: Aktéři, struktura, proces. Pro účely této knihy však byl upraven a posílen konceptuální analytický rámec a rozšířen počet analyzovaných aktérů. Kniha tak ve třinácti kapitolách nabízí pohled do politického a ideového zázemí tvorby české zahraniční politiky a mapuje zapojení a postavení jednotlivých aktérů ČZP, a to vždy z hlediska legislativního rámce, procesu tvorby a dopadu na výslednou zahraniční politiku jak ve statické, tak i historické perspektivě. Každá kapitola je doplněna případovými studiemi, jejichž pomocí autoři a autorky ilustrují konkrétní způsob, jakým daný aktér ovlivňuje českou zahraniční politiku.

Abstract (in English)

This book is concerned with the process of Czech foreign-policy making as viewed by the key political actors involved in it. The book’s main aim is to analyse and to clearly explain their actions and how they contribute to the establishment of Czech policy positions internationally. Thus, the book does not explain influences on foreign policy from the international system within which it is formulated. Focused on the contextually-grounded understanding of how actors perceive themselves and how they evolve over time, the research approach chosen is closer to a qualitative, subjectivist view than to an objective, quantitative assessment of the actors’ options. Likewise, we do not seek to measure actors’ influence over foreign policy; rather we seek to understand the manner in which they influence it. The general epistemological premise of the book’s authors shares some essential traits with the ‘soft programme of constructivism’. In the book’s individual chapters, the character of the actors involved in Czech foreign policy is studied in detail. Crucially, the process of foreign-policy making is also influenced by the character of the foreign-policy agenda. Topics that are deemed to be of secondary importance or less attractive tend to be administered by particular ministries (e.g. of foreign affairs) and other potential actors in foreign policy (government, parliament, president, other ministries) give them their partial attention (if any). The authors present the actors of Czech foreign policy from different points of view – structural (constitutional and legislative) and historical – and examine their specific involvement in the exercise of foreign-policy making.

Links

• MUNI/A/1113/2015, interní kód MU: Name: Evropa v měnícím se mezinárodním prostředí II

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A