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Modernisation Unchallenged

Modernisation Unchallenged
Author: Mats Braun
Publisher: Ústav mezinárodních vztahů, v. v. i.
Total Pages: 78
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Czech Republic
ISBN: 808650672X

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Diskurzy o evropské integraci v členských státech jsou klíčové pro legitimitu Evropské unie. Autor v této studii ukazuje, že konceptualizace EU v České republice stejně jako v zemích Visegrádu a ve Švédsku, které byly zvoleny pro komparaci, jsou vytvořeny na různém vztahu suverenity a modernizace.


Europeanised Defiance – Czech Euroscepticism since 2004

Europeanised Defiance – Czech Euroscepticism since 2004
Author: Vlastimil Havlík
Publisher: Verlag Barbara Budrich
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2017-08-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3847410857

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Why is there so much reservation and scepticism among the Czech public as well as politicians towards the European Union? Has the experience of the Czech Republic as a member of the EU changed Czech Euroscepticism since 2004? The authors provide a detailed analysis of the dynamics of Euroscepticism using the concept of Europeanisation. The unique connection of the concepts of Euroscepticism and Europeanisation creates an innovative research framework.


The Search for Fundamentals

The Search for Fundamentals
Author: Lieteke van Vucht Tijssen
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-12-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9789048145683

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Modernity dissolves absolute certainties; late modernity dissolves them absolutely. In the modern world system there appears to be no firm, unchallenged ground on which to construct a meaningful canopy. But around the world, many individuals and groups long for a kind of cultural coherence that they believe once existed. They search for fundamentals. While these may be sought in religious traditions, many also aspire to new secular certainties. In their various new forms and contexts the contemporary quests for meaning in turn transform the societies in which they occur. The rich comparative examples in The Search for Fundamentals are used to analyze the sources and consequences of several cultural movements. The book also offers theoretical reflections on the difficulties they experience and on the message they carry for students of modernity. Audience: A broad readership of scholars and advanced students in the social sciences and humanities.


The Quest for the National Interest

The Quest for the National Interest
Author: Petr Drulák
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2010
Genre: Czech Republic
ISBN: 9783631596630

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The concept of national interest belongs among the most widely used and abused concepts in the foreign policy debate. This volume illustrates how the term can be used as a meaningful analytical tool. It introduces three criteria (relevance, domestic consensus, and external acceptance) which serve to identify national interest. The authors apply these criteria to Czech foreign policy making and provide some interesting findings concerning a country's possibilities to define and pursue its national interest. Since the authors use four different methodologies (case studies, discourse analysis, grounded theory, and ethnography), the volume also shows the variety of possible ways to analyse national interests.


Small States in Europe

Small States in Europe
Author: Robert Steinmetz
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2016-04-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 131705430X

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The effects of recent institutional change within the European Union on small states have often been overlooked. This book offers an accessible, coherent and informative analysis of contemporary and future foreign policy challenges facing small states in Europe. Leading experts analyze the experiences of a number of small states including the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Luxembourg, Cyprus, Iceland, Austria and Switzerland. Each account, written to a common template, explores the challenges and opportunities faced by each state as a consequence of EU integration, and how their behaviour regarding EU integration has been characterized. In particular, the contributors emphasize the importance of power politics, institutional dynamics and lessons of the past. Innovative and sophisticated, the study draws on the relational understanding of small states to emphasize the implications of institutional change at the European level for the smaller states and to explain how the foreign and European policies of small states in the region are affected by the European Union.


Technopolitics and the Making of Europe

Technopolitics and the Making of Europe
Author: Nina Klimburg-Witjes
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2023-09-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000953572

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This book explores the processes and practices of the securitization and de-securitization of European infrastructures and how political institutions interact with security and insecurity. Expert contributors address distinct areas, from border politics and biosecurity to health governance and law and border control enforcement, to examine the various ways in which infrastructures are envisioned, designed, negotiated and built. They explore how ‘infrastructuring’ contributes to emergent forms of European identity, integration, and statehood. The book will appeal to scholars and students of Science and Technology Studies, Political Sociology, Critical Security Studies, International Relations, European Integration Studies, Infrastructure Studies, or Critical Border and Migration Studies. The Introduction and the Afterword of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.


Czech Foreign Policy in 2007-2009

Czech Foreign Policy in 2007-2009
Author: Michal Kořan
Publisher: Ústav mezinárodních vztahů, v. v. i.
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Czech Republic
ISBN: 8086506908

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Jaká byla zahraniční politika České republiky v období 2007-2009 a proč? What was the Czech foreign policy like during the years 2007–2009 and why?


A History of the Czech Lands

A History of the Czech Lands
Author: Jaroslav Pánek
Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press
Total Pages: 745
Release: 2018
Genre: Czech Republic
ISBN: 8024622270

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Born January 1, 1993 after it split with Slovakia, the Czech Republic is one of the youngest members of the European Union. Despite its youth as a nation, this land and the areas just outside its modern borders boasts an ancient and intricate past. With A History of the Czech Lands, editors Jaroslav Pánek and Oldrich Tuma—along with several scholars from the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and Charles University—provide one of the most complete historical accounts of this region to date. Pánek and Tuma’s history begins in the Neolithic era and follows the development of the state as it transformed into the Kingdom of Bohemia during the ninth century, into Czechoslovakia after World War I, and finally into the Czech Republic. Such a tumultuous political past arises in part from a fascinating native people, and A History of the Czech Lands profiles the Czechs in great detail, delving into past and present traditions and explaining how generation after generation adapted to a perpetually changing government and economy. In addition, Pánek and Tuma examine the many minorities that now call these lands home—Jews, Slovaks, Poles, Germans, Ukrainians, and others—and how each group’s migration to the region has contributed to life in the Czech Republic today. The first study in English with this scope and ambition, A History of the Czech Lands is essential for scholars of Slavic, Central, and East European studies and a must-read for those who trace their ancestry to these lands


East Central European Foreign Policy Identity in Perspective

East Central European Foreign Policy Identity in Perspective
Author: E. Tulmets
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2014-07-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137315768

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How have countries in the EU that were previously under Communist rule influenced the creation of a European policy towards other Post-Soviet nations? This study explores countries including the Czech Republic and Poland and shows how they have helped develop a coherent policy based reconciling political and historical foreign policy identities.


Northern Europe and the Making of the EU's Mediterranean and Middle East Policies

Northern Europe and the Making of the EU's Mediterranean and Middle East Policies
Author: Timo Behr
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2016-05-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317086562

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What drives European foreign policy towards the wider Mediterranean and Middle East region? This collection takes an innovative approach to answering this question, by considering the impact of intra-European divisions on European polices towards this crucial region. European foreign policy has traditionally been defined by a clear division of labour: southern European member states take the lead in the EU’s southern neighbourhood, while central and northern European countries drive policies in the EU’s eastern neighbourhood. The resulting north-south split has entrenched geo-clientalistic behaviour as a core principle of EU foreign policy-making and has fuelled a static intra-European competition over influence and resources. However, as European power dynamics shift, these old divisions no longer hold and northern and central European countries have been pushed towards a more pro-active role in the region. But what factors are shaping the foreign policies of these countries in the Mediterranean and Middle East? What has been their contribution to common EU polices? And does their growing activism signal an end to old geo-clientalistic division as a core driver of European foreign policy?