Czech Foreign Policy After the Velvet Revolution

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Czech Foreign Policy After the Velvet Revolution

KŘÍŽ, Zdeněk, Martin CHOVANČÍK and Oldřich KRPEC

Basic information

Original name

Czech Foreign Policy After the Velvet Revolution

Authors

KŘÍŽ, Zdeněk (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Martin CHOVANČÍK (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution) and Oldřich KRPEC (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Cham, Foreign Policy Change in Europe Since 1991, p. 49-72, 24 pp. 2021

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Field of Study

50601 Political science

Country of publisher

Switzerland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

printed version "print"

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URL

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14230/21:00122289

Organization unit

Faculty of Social Studies

ISBN

978-3-030-68217-0

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68218-7_3

Keywords in English

foreign policy; foreign policy; analysis foreign policy in Europe; foreign policy reorientation; Czech Republic

Abstract

V originále

The drastic international orientation change following the Velvet Revolution represents the most fundamental change in Czech foreign policy to date. The key tenets of the foreign policy of the Czech Republic did not, however, remain unaltered after the country’s independence. Changes in Czech foreign policy can predominantly be traced back to domestic level sources and drivers—especially to the key personalities involved in the foreign policy processes. The most important goal change in modern Czech foreign policy was the 1996 domestically driven decision to reorient the foreign policy of “returning to Europe” from the internationalist path to one directed squarely at NATO and the EU. Program changes were clearly visible in the new uses of aid, economic openness, human rights promotion, and expeditionary military deployments in the 2000s, as well as the post-2014 efforts to counter aggression and insecurity on Europe’s eastern flank. The most common type of foreign policy change was adjustment change, with most recently an attempt to diversify the group of strategic partners of the Czech Republic and develop relationships with non-Western powers, most importantly China and Russia.

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KŘÍŽ, Zdeněk, Martin CHOVANČÍK and Oldřich KRPEC. Czech Foreign Policy After the Velvet Revolution. In Jeroen K. Joly; Tim Haesebrouck. Foreign Policy Change in Europe Since 1991. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, p. 49-72. ISBN 978-3-030-68217-0. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68218-7_3.

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