Two kinds of small? The ‘EU core’ in Slovak and Czech geopolitical imagination

Kazharski, Aliaksei

doi:10.1080/14782804.2019.1598340

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“…o.). Havelre nagy hatással voltak Masaryknak a cseh demokratikus államról alkotott elképzelései, aki több vonatkozásban is foglalkozott a kisállamiság és a marginalitás témájával (Kazharski, 2019).…”

Section: A Cseh Külpolitikai Identitás Meghatározó Elemeiunclassified

A cseh külpolitikai identitás és a visegrádi együttműködés

Garai¹

2022

Külügyi Szemle

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A 2021-es képviselőházi választások kormányváltáshoz vezettek Csehországban, így nem lehetett tudni, vajon milyen irányba fog haladni a cseh külpolitika a Petr Fiala által vezetett ötpárti koalíciós kormány irányítása alatt. Magyarország szempontjából az egyik legfontosabb kérdés, hogy mekkora szerepet kap az európai integráció és a visegrádi együttműködés az új kormány napirendjén. A modern cseh külpolitikai identitás elemeinek a feltérképezése segíthet megérteni, hogy a Fiala-kormány milyen mozgástérrel rendelkezik, milyen korlátokkal szembesül, és milyen történelmi félelmek/ komplexusok hatnak a hagyományos cseh külügyi gondolkodásból fakadóan. A tanulmány legfontosabb célja ezért az, hogy átfogó képet adjon a modern cseh külpolitikai identitás elemeiről, és a kisállami tanulmányok konstruktivista iskolájának alapvetéseire támaszkodva megvizsgálja a visegrádi együttműködésnek az abban betöltött szerepét.

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Section: A Cseh Külpolitikai Identitás Meghatározó Elemeiunclassified

A cseh külpolitikai identitás és a visegrádi együttműködés

Garai¹

2022

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“…The histories of Central European geopolitical thinking are rich and exhibit a conceptual continuity that has withstood turbulent times. In this way, Hungarian Turanism (see Balogh, 2020), Polish Jagellonianism (Ištok, Kozárová, & Polačková, 2018) or Czech anti-geopolitical traditions (Drulák, 2006;Kazharski, 2019) continue to be mobilised in contemporary contexts. Nevertheless, these geopolitical ideas are neither hegemonic nor immutable.…”

Section: Connecting Critical Geopolitics To Ontological Securitymentioning

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“…Slovakia, a small country with five million inhabitants, advocates the communitarian model as a means to balance different regional interests. For Slovak elites, avoiding marginalisation within an East-West division of Europe is a long-standing constant geopolitical narrative that partly explains, broadly speaking, a more pro-European positionality, particularly within the disruptive context of fragmentation within the European Union (Kazharski, 2019).…”

Section: The Czech Republic and Slovakia: A Pragmatic Middle Ground?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Post-Millennial Visegrád Four Geopolitics: Illiberalism and Positionality within the EU

Scott¹

2021

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This research paper analyses shifts in the Visegrád Group's (Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) identity as a regional integration platform and, in particular, links between Europeanization, illiberalism and V4 geopolitical identity. This provides a background for investigating contested ideas of European integration that discursively frame Central Europe's 'illiberal regionalism'. I suggest that this regionalism does not represent a coherent or stable political project. Tensions involved in this regionalist shift are exemplified by 'revolutionary' Hungarian and Polish national conservative agendas and their interaction with the more measured pragmatism of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. This analysis supports the argument that V4 cooperation represents an adjustable geopolitical space that reflects Hungarian and Polish cultural politics of national identity as well as more issue-oriented Czech and Slovak concerns. Moreover, V4 cooperation remains salient in order to prevent the political marginalization of its members.

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“…Monarchy. The ideas of Czech historian Franti ek Palack summarise the situation perfectly -he argued that the Monarchy should not have been abolished since it protected Central European nations from the "hegemony of great powers" (Kazharski, 2019: ) rather, it should have been internally reformed. As a result, the legacy of Versailles is not ust national independence but also a sense of exposure and weakness.…”

Section: Ra Entationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…are traumatized by their losses (Hungary), and others suffer from historical inferiority complexes and fears (Slovakia and the Czech Republic and Slovenia )". Differences in identity also include the altered perception of one's own size or the interpretation of coreperiphery relations in Europe (Kazharski, 2019). This not only complicates interstate relations, but also makes foreign policy in the region less predictable, more diverse and less suitable for analysis using (only) Western IR theories as a framework.…”

Section: Ra Entationmentioning

confidence: 99%