Security threat of social destabilization and reduction of social cohesion in the Czech Republic in relation to economic crisis

Abstract

The entry foreshadows underlying situation of the political process as it is influenced by economic crisis. It further summarises selected security threats to social stability and cohesion in the Czech Republic, namely escalation of social tension, increase of crime, poverty and unemployment, and radicalisation of intercultural relationships.

Keywords

• social stability and cohesion
• security threat
• economic crisis
• crime
• poverty
• homelessness
• unemployment
• social accountability
• extremism
• “anti-gipsyism”